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Title: Environment Ministry rejects low score on green health
Source:The Hindu
Date:9 August 2018
The Union Environment Ministry has dismissed as “arbitrary” and “unscientific” a 2017 World Economic Forum-ranking that placed India at the bottom in terms of environment performance. The January report ranked India 177 out of 180 countries on the Environmental Performance Index 2018. India had plummeted 36 points from 141 in the 2016 edition of the report, prepared by Yale and Columbia Universities along with the WEF. India’s low ranking 177 among 180 countries — was linked to poor performance in the environment health policy and deaths due to air pollution categories.
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