Saturday, 15 August 2009
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World's Cleanest Countries
In a recent study reported on Forbes, there is a list of some of the cleanest countries in the world. The reason why this study is important because the world is in much more support of a cleaner globe these days. Many countries are coming together to increase awareness of the harms that we are causing.
Here is one of the first things we did to do something about global clean up:
"Witness the Kyoto Protocol, the first widely adopted set of environmental protection guidelines, which emerged during the 1990s and took effect in 2005. Kyoto led to the development of the first large-scale emissions trading market, Europe's Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme, which puts caps on carbon dioxide pollution. A similar carbon market, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, began operating at the start of this year in 10 Eastern U.S. states."
Now here are some the world's cleanest country according to this article in Forbes:
1. Switzerland
2. Sweden (tie)
2. Norway (tie)
5. Costa Rica
7. New Zealand
9. Colombia
20. Croatia
21. Japan
25. Albania
49. Isreal
52. Cyprus
58. Mauritius
64. Gabon
Have you been to these countries? Do you agree that they are clean?
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- From: anne
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- About Me: Age: 27, Location: New York, NY Favorite places I've visited: Trick question! I've been to so many amazing places, but if I absolutely had to pick, I'd settle on a couple places to shorten the list. Madrid, Spain because that's where I did my study abroad program when I was 18 and it was there that the travel bug bit me so hard it left a scar. I haven't been the same since. And Vietnam. That's where my family is from. Although, I'm Vietnamese American, I never actually visited Vietnam until I was 26. It was an awesome experience to learn about my family's history and I was quite pleased to show off my vietnamese language skills to the locals. It's quite a big deal for an american-born.
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Comments (64)
switzerland isn't just clean - it's downright sterile
Haha, really ?! I'm actually really suprised USA isnt on there. haaa
Switzerland is so clean! Some parts of the U.S are also quite clean, the country as a whole just isn't though lol.
Shouldn't Hong Kong be on there?
That's quite interesting! I'd like to see the whole 100 though.
somehow i don't see china in that list. lol
Nothing seemed at all unclean when I visited Switzerland.
kinda surprised about Colombia, only because I guess I'd assume the South American countries would all rank pretty similarly... and Argentina is NOT clean...
Interesting.
@laurasaywha@xanga - you're joking right. o_o
And why did you list a bunch of random countries... I thought Singapore would be up there in the top ten.
@BunnyParfait@xanga - NO, i wasnt. *__*
@laurasaywha@xanga - The US is about as clean as a a septic tank compared to other countries.
@BunnyParfait@xanga - Whatevaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
58. mauritius?? never heard of it. time for wiki!
What factors did they take into account? Was air quality one of them? If so, I can see how the US wouldn't make the list, due to the horrible air quality in major cities. You know it's bad when your roommate from Wyoming gets sick for 4 weeks straight because of the Chicago area air (and we weren't even in the actual city).
@kirkirKirstie@xanga - I wouldn't consider Hong Kong as one of the cleanest countries, so I'm not surprised that it didn't make the list.
@BunnyParfait@xanga - ya i thought singapore would be on the list too..i've never been there but I've always heard singapore as clean..I believe there's some law there that doesn't allow citizens to liter on the floor..It'd be nice to live some place where people stop throwing trash wherever they please.
i think singapore should be there. :p
@nooitzben@xanga - Exactly. I'd love to live in Singapore just for that reason. Not to mention the amazing food. :x
I'm suprised Japan is on there....
Hmm , I have never been to any of the countries listed , but I had always wanted to visit Switzerland and Japan . I have to agree with @BunnyParfait@xanga - @nooitzben@xanga - in thinking that singapore would be on there . I googled a photo of city lights once and thought the photo I was looking at was The city of Long Beachs coastline , but after clicking on the pic and going in further I found it was singapore and much more cleaner then Long beach . ( I was raised in Long Beach so yeah I know ) I was amazed at how clean things seemed . So maybe there are parts that I havent seen that didn't live up to the standards of this list ? well I know my town is small and I consider it cleaner then where i lived before , but if we cant keep a small town clean I know USA doesn't have a chance =(
wheres singapore...
isnt it THE cleanest country...
im not surprised USA isnt on there what with littering and pollution. not every part of china is dirty especially the big cities like shanghai. its pretty clean so dont knock it till you've seen it or been there.
I've been to Norway and I have to admit it was very clean. We spent the day in Oslo, which is a fairly huge city and I didn't see any litter throughout the city.
@kirkirKirstie@xanga - hell no. it's freakin' dirty.
Singapore is known to be one of the cleanest and i am shocked it's not on the list!
nevertheless, Switzerland is the cleanest!