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Armenia is placed 56th in the 2022 Environmental Performance Index published by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told a cabinet meeting on Thursday.

The rating table measures the state's achievements in terms of environmental status, is based on 22 indicators of natural resources management and 10 categories, which address issues of environmental protection from the perspective of the vitality of the eco system, preservation of biodiversity, countering climate change, health status of the population, and the burden of economic activity on the environment, and also measure the effectiveness of state policy in the field of environmental protection, he said.

“Here is in the 2022 rating: Armenia took the 56th place, and Azerbaijan – the 104th. The progress and achievements of the Republic of Armenia in the organization of transparent and responsible mining industry are also expressed in the publications of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative,” Pashinyan said.