The United States ranks 45th in the world in the latest Environmental Sustainability Index. The report, produced by scholars at Yale and Columbia for the World Economic Forum, uses 75 measures of environmental sustainability, including water quality and the emission of greenhouse gases, in order to rank 146 of the world's states.
The top ten this year are:
- Finland
- Norway
- Uruguay
- Sweden
- Iceland
- Canada
- Switzerland
- Guyana
- Austria
- Argentina
Dead last this year among the 146 states surveyed? North Korea.