"NO LONGER BEST IN THE WORLD"
UNEP's new Human Development Index includes a new (separate) index: Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI (PHDI). News in Norway is that its position drops from #1 to #16 because of this, while Ireland rises from #2 to #1.
Why?

http://report.hdr.undp.org/ 

Check out Norway's 'Domestic Material Consumption'. Fossil fuels are no different here to Ireland's. What's different is this huge 'non-metallic minerals' category.
(Note also the jump in 1998, suggesting data problems.)
http://www.materialflows.net/visualisation-centre/data-visualisations/

In Norway's case, it looks like the apparent consumption equation (production+imports-exports) for non-metal minerals is dominated by production: extraction of material in Norway.
http://www.materialflows.net/visualisation-centre/data-visualisations/

And here we see that this production of non-metallic minerals is sand, gravel and crushed rock for construction. So it's about Norway's geology.
http://www.materialflows.net/visualisation-centre/country-profiles/

Norway drops 15 places on the PHDI list not because of its CO₂ emissions (fairly high at 41st highest in the world per capita), but because of its geology, because it shifts a lot of rock whenever it builds anything.

What do you think? Is the amount of rock and sand shifted around a good indicator of a country's contribution to "dangerous planetary change"?

Here's the story on NRK's website (in Norwegian): https://www.nrk.no/norge/norge-stuper-pa-fn-liste-over-verdens-beste-land-1.15287648

PS. I spent less than an hour looking at this. If anyone has more detailed data/understanding, please chip in.

Here's a direct link to the table in the report showing the PHDI. Ireland's index for CO₂ is 0.884, while Norway's is 0.881, almost the same. For material footprint Ireland is 0.859, Norway 0.752. It's the material footprint that drags Norway down.
http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr2020.pdf#page=255

I see I referenced this report to UNEP (environment), but it's UNDP (development). They use data provided by UNEP in the report.