The last international features proposed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD) and United Nations (UN) are analyzed in the use of the environmental indicators, in typology, selection criteria, and models, for organizing the information for management, environmental performance, and decision making. The advantages and disadvantages of each model are analyzed, as well as their environmental index characteristics. The analyzed models are Pressure – State – Response (PSR) and its conceptual developments: Driving Force-State-Response (DSR), Driving Force-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR), Model-Flow-Quality (MFQ), Pressure-State-Impact-Effect-Response (PSIER), and, finally, Pressure-State-Impact-Effect-Response-Management (PSIERM). The use of one or another model will depend on the quality of the available information, as well as on the proposed objectives.