Know : Top 60 Green Economy Countries

This 4th edition of the GGEI is an in-depth look at how 60 countries perform in the global green economy, as well as how expert practitioners rank this performance and ranks based on perception.

Performance Rank		SCORE
1	Sweden	68.1
2	Norway	65.9
3	Costa Rica	64.2
4	Germany	63.6
5	Denmark	63.2
6	Switzerland	63.1
7	Austria	63
8	Finland	62.9
9	Iceland	62.6
10	Spain	59.2
11	Ireland	59
12	New Zealand	58.8
13	France	56.4
14	Colombia	56.1
15	Portugal	55.8
16	Peru	55.8
17	Kenya	55.4
18	Brazil	55.3
19	Chile	55.1
20	United Kingdom	54.6
21	Netherlands	54.2
22	Uruguay	54.1
23	Mauritius	51.5
24	Zambia	51.3
25	Italy	51.2
26	Ethiopia	50.6
27	Rwanda	50.4
28	United States	50.1
29	Canada	49.6
30	Taiwan	47.5
31	Mexico	47.4
32	Philippines	47.2
33	Israel	47
34	South Africa	46.8
35	Malaysia	46.4
36	Tanzania	46.2
37	Australia	46.1
38	Czech Republic	46
39	South Korea	45.6
40	United Arab Emirates	45.6
41	Burkina Faso	45.2
42	Cambodia	44.9
43	Turkey	44.8
44	Japan	44.6
45	Thailand	44.5
46	Ghana	44.5
47	Belgium	44.1
48	Argentina	43.8
49	India	43.4
50	Slovakia	43
51	Panama	41.5
52	Morocco	41.5
53	Mozambique	41
54	Indonesia	40.3
55	China	40.1
56	Poland	37.1
57	Senegal	33.4
58	Qatar	33.3
59	Vietnam	32.2
60	Mongolia	29.5

The perception survey for the 2014 GGEI was conducted from June through August 2014, and polled targeted respondents on how they assessed national green performance on the four main dimensions of Leadership & Climate Change, Efficiency Sectors, Markets & Investment, and Environment & Natural Capital.

Perception Rank		SCORE
1	Germany	93.6
2	Denmark	92.8
3	Sweden	90.2
4	Norway	84.8
5	Netherlands	84
6	United States	76.2
7	Japan	72.4
8	United Kingdom	71.6
9	Finland	70.2
10	Switzerland	67.8
11	Australia	66.3
12	Canada	63
13	China	61.6
14	Costa Rica	60.4
15	Brazil	59.7
16	India	56.1
17	Austria	55.1
18	New Zealand	52
19	Iceland	49.1
20	France	48.5
21	Spain	46.7
22	South Africa	45.8
23	South Korea	44.1
24	Israel	41.1
25	United Arab Emirates	40.3
26	Kenya	40
27	Malaysia	39.3
28	Mexico	37.1
29	Italy	36.1
30	Belgium	36
31	Indonesia	35.3
32	Peru	35
33	Ireland	34.3
34	Mauritius	34
35	Chile	33.5
36	Tanzania	33.3
37	Ethiopia	33.1
38	Philippines	33
39	Morocco	32.6
40	Portugal	32.5
41	Colombia	31.6
42	Poland	31.5
43	Qatar	31.2
44	Turkey	31.2
45	Vietnam	31.1
46	Taiwan	30.7
47	Argentina	30.2
48	Rwanda	30.1
49	Zambia	30
50	Mozambique	29.8
51	Thailand	29.3
52	Czech Republic	29.2
53	Cambodia	28.9
54	Ghana	28.7
55	Burkina Faso	28.5
56	Slovakia	28.2
57	Mongolia	27.7
58	Uruguay	27.6
59	Panama	27.4
60	Senegal	27.3

Germany (perception) and Sweden (performance) top the 2014 GGEI, confirming a trend observed in prior editions of strong results by Germany and the Nordic states. Besides performing well on both the economic and environmental areas of the GGEI, these nations display consistent green leadership and receive global recognition for it.

Covered for the first time in this edition, Costa Rica performs extremely well, ranking third on the GGEI performance measure behind Sweden and Norway and receiving strong recognition on the perception survey, an impressive result for such a small country.

Like in 2012, Copenhagen is the top green city as ranked by our survey of global experts, reinforcing the continued strength of the Danish green brand. Tracked for the first time this year, Vancouver and Singapore also rank in the top 10 of green cities.

Many of the fastest growing economies in the world rank poorly on the GGEI performance measure, highlighting an urgent need to reorient their economies to greener

growth pathways. Regionally, these countries are mostly in Africa (Ghana), the Gulf (Qatar, United Arab Emirates), and Asia (Cambodia, China, Thailand, Vietnam)

There are concerning results related to more developed countries as well – notably Australia, Japan, the Netherlands and the United States – where perceptions of their green economic performance dramatically exceed their actual performance on the GGEI. These countries appear to receive more credit than they deserve, an information gap that requires further exploration.

Despite its leadership founding the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), South Korea continues not to register as a green country brand on our survey and performs poorly, ranked 39th out of 60 on this year’s GGEI. Despite better perception results, Japan also performs poorly on the 2014 GGEI, ranked 44th out of 60.

While the United Kingdom performs adequately in most areas of the GGEI, it doesn’t excel on any one topic, possibly due to inconsistent political rhetoric and policy related to green economy there. While gradually improving in each successive GGEI edition, the UK still lags behind its northern European and Nordic competitors.

Five European nations – Austria, Iceland, Ireland, Portugal and Spain – reveal performance scores that exceed their perception ones significantly – signaling an urgent need for better strategic communications and information exchange of their green merits and associated investment opportunities.

The GGEI results reveal a similar observation for a variety of non-European states – including Ethiopia, Mauritius, Rwanda in Africa and Colombia, Chile and Peru in Latin America – again suggesting a need for these states to better position their green economies on the international stage.

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Courtesy and Source : GGEI-Report 2014 by DUAL CITIZEN LLC

Disclaimer: All the rights of the data and the study belong to DUAL CITIZEN LLC. We have shared the info here for educational purposes only. We do not own any info above or the rights.

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Know : List of Countries using Nuclear Energy

Nuclear power stations operate in 31 countries. Of the thirty countries in which nuclear power plants operate, only France, Belgium, Hungary and Slovakia use them as the primary source of electricity, although many other countries have a significant nuclear power generation capacity. According to the World Nuclear Association, a nuclear power advocacy group, over 45 countries are giving “serious consideration” to introducing a nuclear power capability, with Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey,Vietnam, Belarus, and Jordan at the forefront. China, South Korea and India are pursuing ambitious expansions of their nuclear power capacities

As of June 2011, Germany and Switzerland are phasing-out nuclear power which will be replaced mostly by fossil fuels, and a smaller part renewable energy.

Rank	Country	Capacity (MW) (2014)	Nuclear share of electricity production, 2013
1	United States	99,081	19.4%
2	France	63,130	73.3%
3	Japan	42,388	1.7%
4	Russia	23,643	17.5%
5	South Korea	20,721	27.6%
6	China	17,978	2.1%
7	Canada	13,538	16.0%
8	Ukraine	13,107	43.6%
9	Germany	12,068	15.4%
10	Sweden	9,474	42.7%
11	United Kingdom	9,243	18.3%
12	Spain	7,121	19.7%
13	Belgium	5,927	52.1%
14	India	5,308	3.5%
15	Taiwan	5,032	19.1%
16	Czech Republic	3,884	35.9%
17	Switzerland	3,308	36.4%
18	Finland	2,752	33.3%
19	Bulgaria	1,906	30.7%
20	Hungary	1,889	50.7%
21	Brazil	1,884	2.8%
22	South Africa	1,860	5.7%
23	Slovakia	1,815	51.7%
24	Argentina	1,627	4.4%
25	Mexico	1,570	4.6%
26	Romania	1,300	19.8%
27	Iran	915	1.5%
28	Pakistan	690	4.4%
29	Slovenia	688	33.6%
30	Netherlands	482	2.8%
31	Armenia	375	29.2%
	World	374,704

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Courtesy & Source: “Nuclear power station” by Ichabod Paleogene, Krzysztof Kori. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Documentary : Inside ‘The White House’

Watch this Documentary narrated by Morgan Freeman… Know about White House.

The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States, located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. It has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800.

Know : Countries with Capitals which is not their Largest City

Country	Capital	Largest city
Australia	Canberra	Sydney
Belize	Belmopan	Belize City
Benin	Porto-Novo	Cotonou
Bolivia	Sucre	Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Brazil	Brasília	São Paulo
Cameroon	Yaoundé	Douala
Canada	Ottawa	Toronto
People’s Republic of China	Beijing	Shanghai
Republic of China(Taiwan)	Taipei	New Taipei
Côte d’Ivoire	Yamoussoukro	Abidjan
Ecuador	Quito	Guayaquil
India	New Delhi	Mumbai
Kazakhstan	Astana	Almaty
Liechtenstein	Vaduz	Schaan
Malta	Valletta	Birkirkara
Federated States of Micronesia	Palikir	Weno
Monaco	Monaco (Monaco-Ville)	Monte Carlo
Morocco	Rabat	Casablanca
Myanmar	Naypyidaw	Yangon
New Zealand	Wellington	Auckland
Nigeria	Abuja	Lagos
Pakistan	Islamabad	Karachi
Palau	Ngerulmud	Koror
Philippines	Manila	Quezon City
San Marino	San Marino	Serravalle
South Africa	Pretoria	Johannesburg
Sudan	Khartoum	Omdurman
Sri Lanka	Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte	Colombo
Switzerland	Bern	Zürich
Syria	Damascus	Aleppo
Tanzania	Dodoma	Dar es Salaam
Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	Chaguanas
Turkey	Ankara	Istanbul
United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	Dubai
United States	Washington, D.C.	New York City
Vietnam	Hanoi	Ho Chi Minh City

Alert! : Time Lapse of All Nuclear Explosions on Earth from 1945 – 1998

It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.

Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea’s two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).

Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he created it with the goal of showing”the fear and folly of nuclear weapons.”