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 19, 2012 | Sights
My first stop when I came back to Beijing was to meet with our partners at the Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, who we collaborated with on the “Towards a China Environmental Performance Index” project. I was excited to hear about all of the...
by Angel Hsu | Jun 21, 2012 | Publications
My colleagues and I recently wrote a paper distilling the challenges of environmental indicator development in China, based on the report we released last November, “Towards a China Environmental Performance Index.” Here are some highlights of the article:...
by Angel Hsu | Mar 27, 2012 | Indices
The 20th anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit is quickly approaching this June. To support the negotiations for a “Future We Want,” the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and Center for International Earth Science Information Network have applied...
