Environmental decision-making has long been plagued by uncertainties and a lack of critical information. The data and analyses needed for thoughtful and systematic action to minimize pollution harms and to optimize the use of natural resources are often unavailable or seem too costly to
obtain. As a result, choices are made on the basis of generalized observations and best guesses, or worse yet, rhetoric or emotion.
Environmental Performance Measurement: The Global Report 2001-2002 presents a new approach to environmental decision-making based on facts and analytic rigor. It collects in one place the largest amount of environmental data that has ever been assembled at the nation-state scale. Presented here
is the first serious attempt not only to measure environmental sustainability in one summary indicator, but also to rank 122 countries on the basis of this index. In addition, country profiles provide detailed information about the environmental performance of these countries across 22 critical
environmental indicators. Written by both academics and practitioners, this report is an essential tool for environmental performance decision-making in many realms and in all countries across the world.
Environmental decision-making has long been plagued by uncertainties and a lack of critical information. The data and analyses needed for thoughtful and systematic action to minimize pollution harms and to optimize the use of natural resources are often unavailable or seem too costly to
obtain. As a result, choices are made on the basis of generalized observations and best guesses, or worse yet, rhetoric or emotion.
Environmental Performance Measurement: The Global Report 2001-2002 presents a new approach to environmental decision-making based on facts and analytic rigor. It collects in one place the largest amount of environmental data that has ever been assembled at the nation-state scale. Presented here
is the first serious attempt not only to measure environmental sustainability in one summary indicator, but also to rank 122 countries on the basis of this index. In addition, country profiles provide detailed information about the environmental performance of these countries across 22 critical
environmental indicators. Written by both academics and practitioners, this report is an essential tool for environmental performance decision-making in many realms and in all countries across the world.
World Economic Forum Global Leaders for Tomorrow Environment Task
Force
Contributors
Klaus Schwab: Foreword
Michael E. Porter: Preface
1: Daniel C. Esty: Why Measurement Matters
2: Marc A. Levy: Measuring Nations' Environmental
Sustainability
3: Daniel C. Esty and Michael E. Porter: National Environmental
Performance Measurement and Determinants
4: Forest Reinhardt: Bridging the Gap: How Improved Information Can
Help Companies Integrate Shareholder Value and Environmental
Quality
5: Frank Dixon: Financial Markets and Corporate Environmental
Results
6: Alois Flatz: Corporate Sustainability and Financial Indexes
7: Peter K. Cornelius, Friedrich von Kirchbach, and Mondher
Mimouni: Creating Green Markets: What Do the Trade Data Tell
Us?
Annexes
Annex 1: Making Environmental Data Comparable: The ESI
Methodology
Annex 2: Component and Indicator Scores
Annex 3: Country Profiles
Annex 4: Variable Descriptions and Data
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