How Fast Are the Asian Countries Progressing Toward Green Economy? Implications for Public Health.

ABSTRACT: Monitoring progress toward green economy has been a key policy focus globally. The purpose of our study is to assess Asian countries' green development performance and also the progress toward green economy overtime. To achieve this goal, we propose a green development index (GDI) to assess the level and ranking of green development for Asian countries, and then we measure the progress toward green economy by the method based on the compound annual growth rate (CAGR). The result shows that the northeast Asian countries together with Singapore and Israel are leaders in green development performance across Asia, but the most progress toward green economy has been achieved by some medium green development level countries, like China. Countries with the fastest movement away from green economy

SUBMITTER: Shao M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8858809 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature