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:	Percentage of the area of each of a country’s biome types that are covered by protected areas. The indicator is based on the weighted sum of the protection percentages for all biomes within a country. Protection percentages are weighted according to the prevalence of each biome type within the country (EPI-Variable TBN). Differing from EPI 2024’s definition, for SGI2024 the previous EPI target of 17 percent protection is used.
Year:	2023
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	High values translate into high scores
Source 1:	EPI
Data for:
Annotation:	Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, Environmental Performance Index (EPI): Dataset: Terrestrial biome protection (TBN) 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:	17
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

Terrestrial Biome Protection

Germany

10.0

30.00

Greece

10.0

30.00

Poland

10.0

30.00

Slovenia

10.0

30.00

Japan

10.0

28.52

Spain

10.0

28.04

Netherlands

10.0

27.04

Slovakia

10.0

27.03

10.0

26.37

Austria

10.0

26.08

New Zealand

10.0

26.04

France

10.0

24.91

Portugal

10.0

22.97

Hungary

10.0

22.50

Italy

10.0

21.63

Czechia

10.0

20.96

Israel

10.0

20.85

Australia

10.0

20.12

Estonia

10.0

19.86

Latvia

10.0

18.12

Norway

10.0

17.54

Lithuania

10.0

16.94

Belgium

9.2

15.49

Upper middle group

Denmark

8.6

14.41

Ireland

8.5

14.09

Sweden

7.8

12.84

Finland

7.7

12.73

USA

7.0

11.35

Canada

6.8

10.87

Switzerland

6.2

9.85

Lower middle group

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Bottom group

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