by Angel Hsu | Sep 27, 2013 | Data
The United Nations has officially designated 2013 as the International Year of Water Cooperation. In response to this global call for action, the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) team is seeking to improve upon its water indicators for the 2014 edition, which...
by Angel Hsu | Sep 23, 2013 | Data, Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Indices
This post originally appeared here. World Water Week drew to a close earlier this month with a charge to the United Nations to consider aspecial emphasis on water as part of a post-2015 development agenda. As the UN deliberates Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),...
by Angel Hsu | Jul 9, 2013 | Data
Originally on the Huffington Post. This blog post was co-written with Jason Daniel Schwartz, a journalist and writer. He recently completed a Masters of Environmental Management at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Big Data has emerged as a...
by Angel Hsu | Apr 2, 2012 | Data, Indices
This post was originally featured on Sage Magazine and the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy blog. This past Sunday at the US-Canada Citizens Summit for Sustainable Development, I facilitated a group discussion on metrics and indicators for measuring...
by Angel Hsu | Jan 23, 2012 | Data, Indices, Policy
The 2012 Environmental Performance Index and the Pilot Trend Environmental Performance Index (new!) will be released this Thursday, Jan. 26 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In addition to an update to the biennial rankings, we’ve included a new...
by Angel Hsu | Dec 20, 2011 | China, Data, Indices
A report that my colleagues and I worked on for the last three years is finally available for public consumption. Below is the press release and a link to download the report. NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A team of researchers jointly led by Yale University and Columbia...
