City Attacks Report Critics after Failing 'Green' Test; Liverpool in Last Place in UK League Table
Byline: BY LIZA WILLIAMS Daily Post Staff
LIVERPOOL is the least sustainable large city in Britain, according to a report compiled to find out how green the country's urban centres are.
The Sustainable Cities Index, published by the Forum for the Future charity, ranks Britain's 20 biggest cities according to social, economic and environmental performance - and overall Liverpool came in 20th place.
The charity used a total of 13 indicators from data that already exist about areas in which cities are expected to improve.
The indicators included air pollution and river water quality for environmental impact, healthy life expectancy at 65 and …
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Article title: City Attacks Report Critics after Failing 'Green' Test; Liverpool in Last Place in UK League Table.
Contributors: Not available.
Newspaper title: Daily Post (Liverpool, England).
Publication date: October 22, 2007.
Page number: 8.
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