UK ranked fifth best in world green list
Gus Speth, dean of the Yale school of Forestry and Environmental studies, warned that America's performance, ranked 28th, was of global concern. "The lagging performance of the US on environmental issues, particularly on energy and climate change, signals trouble not only for the American people, but for the whole world."
The US had the best water quality in the world, but was ranked low on energy. On individual issues, the UK scored highly on environmental health but did not score highly on greenhouse gas emissions, or air quality.
League tables The good, the bad and the underperforming
Overall top 10 by EPI Score
1 New Zealand 88.0
2 Sweden 87.8
3 Finland 87.0
4 Czech Republic 86.0
5 United Kingdom 85.6
6 Austria 85.2
7 Denmark 84.2
8 Canada 84.0
9 Malaysia 83.3
10 Ireland 83.3
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28 United States 78.5
Overall bottom 10
133 Niger 25.7
132 Chad 30.5
131 Mauritania 32.0
130 Mali 33.9
129 Ethiopia 36.7
128 Angola 39.3
127 Pakistan 41.1
126 Burkina Faso 43.2
125 Bangladesh 43.5
124 Sudan 44.0
Top 5 Environmental health
1 Sweden 99.4
2 France 99.2
3 Australia 99.0
4 United Kingdom 98.9
5 Finland 98.8
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13 United States 98.3
Top 5 Productive natural resources
1 Paraguay 100
2 Armenia 100
3 Kazakhstan 100
4 Bolivia 100
5 Zimbabwe 100
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84 United Kingdom 71.6
124 United States 38.9
Top 5 Biodiversity and habitat
1 Benin 88.0
2 Venezuela 88.0
3 Jamaica 86.1
4 Panama 83.1
5 Cambodia 82.6
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33 United States 66.8
52 United Kingdom 58.8
Top 5 Air quality
1 Uganda 98.0
2 Gabon 96.1
3 Rwanda 91.1
4 Burundi 90.9
5 Ghana 87.3
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42 United Kingdom 61.6
97 United States 44.7
Top 5 Sustainable energy
1 Uganda 92.4
2 Mali 92.1
3 Democratic Rep of Congo 90.1
4 Laos 89.8
5 Cambodia 89.1
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55 United Kingdom 77.8
80 United States 69.7
· Scores determined by researchers at Columbia and Yale Universities, who ranked 133 countries according to how they tackled domestic and world problems and met targets
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