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To the authors of “Environmental Performance Index” Report I would like to express my ideas regarding “Environmental Performance Index” report for 2007 prepared by you. I consider useful participation of countries in the development of “Environmental Performance Index” report. But we consider presentation of subjective information to the public, without any preparation, causing its confusion inadmissible for such respected universities. These conclusions based on the following analysis. Use of some indicators in the report reflects insufficient knowledge about indicators. Since some indicators do not imply only anthropogenic impact on environment. I would like to bring your attention to some of them: 1. Urban particulates Air pollution by particulates in the cities was defined by PM10 concentration measured at the monitoring stations. First of all this kind of monitoring stations are available only in the developed countries. We would like to inform you that we know precisely about unavailability of these monitoring stations in the Caucuses countries, including Armenia suddenly fallen into “Middle East and North Africa” group, neither in the Central Asia countries. Secondly, this indicator can not distinguish natural and anthropogenic wastes. The indicator could not be accepted as criteria under this consideration. One can not compare Canada covered by forest with Saudi Arabia placed in the desert based on this indicator. 2. Regional and local ozone Based on the presented results one can conclude that the figures were allocated in accordance with countries relief height level. This indicator is more related to natural conditions and could not be included in to environmental performance index. 3. Pesticides management This indicator is absolutely unreasonable. First of all there are countries which have not only ever used pesticide conventions but also never seen them. 4. Emissions per capita It’s not right to include this indicator in the assessment. The assessment of industrial and agrarian countries together does not reflect real picture. 5. Emissions per generated electric energy This also can not be accepted as indicator. Since it does not distinguish countries used nuclear and fuel stations. As result 5 undefined indicators from 25 bring effectiveness of the report to 80%. We did not even touch so far accepted sources of information for the indicators which cover different time periods. One could never compare information dated differently. At the end please bring to the consideration of the specialists that at least they can not use this document due to its lacks as a source of information. Yours faithfully, Maharram Mehtiyev Lead advisor Department of environmental policy and environment protection Ministry of ecology and natural resources of Azerbaijan Republic
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Extremely helpful site.But the EPI should be publisized more.As a student in a Sri Lankan government school i havent learnt much about global warming,loss of species, conservation, etc.so it would be great if you could help start programmes locally to educate the younger genarations on effects such as global warming.Thanks!
A useful tool for comparing similar countries (countries with similar resources and levels of development) but I agree with Maharram Mehtiyev that the published EPI values are completely subjective and should have been advertised as such. I really like it that you can change the weightings of the calculations. Using some weights settings Switzerland is at about 110 and Nigeria is 1st.
What about Brunei? I would like to know more about the state of my country’s environment,its efforts in protecting its environment and what more can we do to realize our environmental goals.
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