The Green Future Index is an index identified by the MIT Technology Review (magazine of the Massachussets Institute of Technology) that indicates a nation's ability to build a sustainable low-carbon future.
The index therefore measures the degree to which a country's economy is heading towards full sustainability in terms of clean energy, agriculture, industry and society through concrete actions such as investments in renewable energy, innovations in the green sector and environmental policies.
The value of the Green Future Index can vary from 1 to 10, where 10 indicates total sustainability and it is constructed by evaluating a series of parameters of a nation called "pillars":
- Carbon emission;
- Energy transition;
- Green society;
- Clean innovation;
- Climate policies.
Every year the MIT Technology Review draws up a ranking with the ranking (based on the Green Future Index) of over 70 countries in the world to monitor the progress they are making towards a future in which sustainability will no longer be a goal to be achieved, but the normality.