Gauging model for regional environmental policy performance in Ukraine

Denis Kolomiets

Department of Cybernetics of Chemical Technology Processes, National Technical University of Ukraine, Peremogy av. 37, 03056 Kyiv, Ukraine, e‑mail: kxtp@xtf.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua

Environmental Performance Index (The 2008 EPI, Yale University and Columbia University) addresses the need for a gauge of policy performance in reducing environmental stresses on human health and promoting ecosystem vitality and sound natural resource management. The 2008 EPI is fact-based and empirical approach to environmental protection and global sustainability. The 2008 EPI deploys a proximity-to-target methodology that quantitatively measures country-scale performance on a core set of environmental policy goals for which every government can be held accountable. By identifying specific targets and measuring the distance between the target and current results, the 2008 EPI provides an empirical foundation for policy benchmarking and a context for evaluating environmental performance. The 2008 EPI scheme and calculation methodology is used for assessment of environmental policy performance of regions in Ukraine. This aggregated index can be included as one of the global indices in sustainable development gauging matrix proposed by the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.