SGI 2024 | Sustainable Policymaking | Environmental Sustainability | Effective Ecosystem and Biodiversity Preservation | Adjusted Emissions Growth Rate for Sulfur Dioxide

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Values among 30 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	Average annual rate of increase or decrease in SO2 over the last ten years of data, adjusted for economic trends to isolate change due to policy rather than economic fluctuation (EPI-Variable SDA).
Year:	2022
Unit:	Standardized Scale
Direction:	Low values translate into high scores
Source 1:	EPI
Data for:
Annotation:	Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, Environmental Performance Index (EPI): Dataset: Adjusted emissions growth rate for sulfur dioxide (SDA) URL: https://epi.yale.edu/downloa… extracted 2024/07/03.

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Minimum:	-0.335
Maximum:	0.105
/	Below/Above IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=10-relative distance*9

Top group

Score

Adjusted Emissions Growth Rate for Sulfur Dioxide

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Slovakia

9.3

-0.30

Estonia

9.1

-0.29

Upper middle group

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USA

7.4

-0.21

7.2

-0.20

Slovenia

6.6

-0.17

Czechia

6.4

-0.16

Hungary

6.4

-0.16

Ireland

6.4

-0.16

Canada

6.2

-0.15

Finland

6.2

-0.15

Switzerland

6.2

-0.15

Belgium

6.0

-0.14

Portugal

6.0

-0.14

Lower middle group

France

5.6

-0.12

Israel

5.6

-0.12

Italy

5.4

-0.11

Spain

5.4

-0.11

Netherlands

5.2

-0.10

Greece

5.0

-0.09

Sweden

4.8

-0.08

Germany

4.6

-0.07

Japan

4.6

-0.07

Austria

4.4

-0.06

Denmark

4.2

-0.05

Norway

4.2

-0.05

Australia

4.0

-0.04

Lithuania

4.0

-0.04

Latvia

3.4

-0.01

New Zealand

3.1

0.00

Bottom group

Poland

2.1

0.05

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