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Being green is easy for these 5 countries

Jeremy BerkeApr 22, 2016, 23:01 IST

Flickr / Carlos Andrés Reyes

Every Earth Day, the world celebrates efforts to improve the environment across the globe. And each year, Yale's Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks the top-performing countries for the environment, based on how well they've fared at protecting human health and vulnerable ecosystems.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the top five countries this year were all European.

The EPI creates index by giving each country a score out of 100 that's based on a number of specific metrics. The individual scores are averaged for each country to create the rankings.

See below for the 5 best performing countries on the 2016 report: