Albania improves its environmental performance

TIRANA, Feb 02؁lbania ranks 16th among 163 countries in 2010 in a two-yearly environmental performance index, up from 25th place in 2008.
This is the third edition of the EPI produced at Yale and Columbia universities in the USA since 2006.
Among countries in the Balkans, Serbia and Montenegro are collectively ranked 29th, Croatia 35th, Romania 45th, Slovenia 55th, Bulgaria 65th, Greece 71st, FYR Macedonia 73rd, and Bosnia-Herzegovina 98th.
EPI (epi.yale.edu/) ranks countries on their performance in categories including environmental health, air quality, water resource management, biodiversity and habitat, forestry, fisheries, agriculture, and climate change.