{"id":98556,"date":"2020-07-30T07:57:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T07:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=98556"},"modified":"2020-07-30T07:57:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T07:57:08","slug":"environment-performance-index-epi-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/environment-performance-index-epi-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment Performance Index (EPI 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question.Environment Performance Index (EPI 2020) is released by which institution?<\/strong><br>(a) UNESCO<br>(b) Yale University<br>(c) University of Oxford<br>(d) United Nations Environment Program<br><strong>Answer : (b)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Context:<\/strong><\/li><li>The 12th edition of the Environment Performance Index (EPI 2020) \u2013 released by Yale University \u2013 ranked India at 168 out of the 180 countries analysed, behind all South Asian nations, except Afghanistan, with a score of 27.6.<\/li><li><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/li><li>The index is based on 32 performance indicators across 11 categories\u2014biodiversity &amp; habitat, air quality, water and sanitation, etc\u2014based on which countries are ranked on environmental health and ecosystem vitality.<\/li><li>The 2020 rankings include for the first time a waste management metric and a pilot indicator on CO2 emissions from land cover change.<\/li><li><strong>Rankings:<\/strong><\/li><li>Denmark is ranked First, followed by Luxembourg and Switzerland. Liberia is ranked last at 180.<\/li><li>India is ranked 168 with a score of 27.6. India performed the worst regionally on all five key parameters for environmental health\u2014sanitation, drinking water, air quality, heavy metals, and waste management.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By:Arpit Mishara<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/epi.yale.edu\/\">https:\/\/epi.yale.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question.Environment Performance Index (EPI 2020) is released by which institution?(a) UNESCO(b) Yale University(c) University of Oxford(d) United Nations Environment ProgramAnswer : (b) Context: The 12th edition of the Environment Performance Index (EPI 2020) \u2013 released by Yale University \u2013 ranked India at 168 out of the 180 countries analysed, behind all South Asian nations, except [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2520],"class_list":["post-98556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-current-affairs-international-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98558,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98556\/revisions\/98558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}