The indicator measures how effectively a national environmental policy protects and preserves the sustainability of natural resources and the quality of the environment.
Effective environmental policies will help promote and incentivize goal-driven technological progress and environmentally friendly behavior and ensure sufficient resources are allocated for implementation. In assessing the effectiveness of environmental policies, the experts were invited to draw on the following guiding questions:
Are environmental policy goals ambitious (i.e., do they target more than improvements to efficiency)?
Are environmental policies implemented with tangible impact?
Are environmental concerns integrated effectively across relevant policy sectors (i.e., energy, housing, transport, manufacturing industry, research and innovation, tourism, fisheries, agriculture)?
As environmental performance may be issue-specific, the experts were invited to provide a short paragraph for each of the four key targets of protection: resource use (land, water, materials, energy), environmental pollution (water, air, soil), climate and biodiversity protection."
The indicator is based on expert answers to these questions and varies from 0 to 10, where 0-1 is "Environmental concerns have been largely abandoned" and 9-10 is "Environmental policy goals are ambitious and effectively implemented as well as monitored within and across most relevant policy sectors that account for the largest share of resource use and emissions".
Type of variable: Continuous
Last updated by source: 2022-09-12