The country profiles obtained from the Environmental Sustainability Index Report (ESI) 2005 are snapshots of each individual country, reflecting its performance within the 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index. In the box in the upper left corner, the ESI scores, ESI ranks, average ESI score of the peer group and data coverage are presented. The graph on the upper right corner demonstrates the scores of the 5 core components namely, Environmental Systems, Reducing Stresses, Reducing Human Vulnerability, Social and Institutional Capacity, and Global Stewardship. The graphical representation indicates a higher performance if the country’s score is closer to the vertices of the graph.
The bar graph provides scores of the 21 indicators. The ESI is a weighted average of these 21 indicators. These bars illustrate two different data information for each indicator. The shaded bars demonstrate the country scores for each indicator and the white bars show the average score of the indicator for the peer group, in which the country is classified. This way a comparison between the individual country and the peer group is made possible.
A concise summary of the information regarding the ESI and its components presented in the tabular form is also included. In this section, environmental sustainability of individual countries is analyzed in a comparative manner. In that respect, it compares the world average scores on each of the components with those of each OIC country. This provides us with the information in which component or components the OIC countries performed better than the world average. In components where a poorer performance was observed than the world average, indicators that led to this outcome were identified and referred to as priority policy areas for improving the overall performance of the OIC members.
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