India ranks 168th on Environmental Performance Index 2020

India has ranked 168th out of 180 countries in the 2020 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), according to researchers at Yale and Columbia universities, who say India’s decarbonization agenda needs to accelerate, and the country faces a number of serious environmental health risks, including poor air quality.
In the 2020 EPI – a biennial scorecard of national results on a range of sustainability issues – Denmark has ranked first in the world, followed by Luxembourg, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, France, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Germany in the top 10 countries.
While Japan has ranked 12th, the United States of America ranks 24th, and China stands at 120th.