SGI 2024 | Sustainable Policymaking | Environmental Sustainability | Effective Ecosystem and Biodiversity Preservation

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Values among 30 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	The Species Protection Index (SPI) evaluates the species-level ecological representativeness of each country’s protected area network. The SPI metric uses remote sensing data, global biodiversity informatics, and integrative models to map suitable habitat for over 30,000 terrestrial vertebrate, invertebrate, and plant species at high resolutions (EPI-Variable SPI).
Year:	2024
Unit:	Standardized Scale
Direction:	High values translate into high scores
Source 1:	EPI
Data for:
Annotation:	Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, Environmental Performance Index (EPI): Dataset: Species Protection Index (SPI). URL: https://epi.yale.edu/downloa… extracted 2024/07/03.

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Maximum:	100
Minimum:	0
/	Above/Below IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=1+relative distance*9

Top group

Score

Species Protection Index

Poland

9.9

99.01

Germany

9.9

98.34

Czechia

9.7

96.79

Belgium

9.6

96.03

Estonia

9.6

95.93

Slovakia

9.6

95.80

Lithuania

9.5

94.47

Slovenia

9.5

93.95

Ireland

9.4

93.78

Sweden

8.6

84.93

Latvia

8.6

84.23

Austria

8.5

83.61

Hungary

8.5

83.33

Upper middle group

Canada

8.4

82.11

Denmark

7.8

75.41

Spain

7.8

75.07

France

7.4

71.64

Finland

7.1

67.86

Norway

7.1

67.40

Australia

6.9

65.82

Portugal

6.9

65.16

Japan

6.3

58.94

Italy

6.2

57.58

6.1

57.05

Greece

6.1

56.45

New Zealand

5.5

50.21

Lower middle group

Switzerland

4.9

42.92

Netherlands

4.6

40.54

USA

4.6

39.88

Israel

4.1

34.04

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