School of Management, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai, China.
School of Economics and Management, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China.
Front Public Health. 2022 Feb 7;9:753338. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.753338. eCollection 2021.
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 are some laggard countries with poor green development performance, such as Syria and Yemen. More generally, the leading countries have reached a high green development level, and the medium ones move fast toward green economy, whereas some laggards get worse. We also discuss the implications for public health in environmental protection, green consumption, and green production.
监测绿色经济进展情况一直是全球政策重点。我们的研究目的是评估亚洲国家的绿色发展绩效，以及随着时间的推移向绿色经济的进展情况。为了实现这一目标，我们提出了一个绿色发展指数（GDI）来评估亚洲国家的绿色发展水平和排名，然后我们通过基于复合年增长率（CAGR）的方法来衡量向绿色经济的进展情况。结果表明，东北亚国家与新加坡和以色列一起，在整个亚洲的绿色发展绩效方面处于领先地位，但在向绿色经济迈进方面取得最大进展的是一些中等绿色发展水平的国家，如中国。最远离绿色经济的国家是一些绿色发展绩效较差的落后国家，如叙利亚和也门。更普遍的是，领先国家已经达到了较高的绿色发展水平，中等国家快速向绿色经济迈进，而一些落后国家则在恶化。我们还讨论了环境保护、绿色消费和绿色生产对公共卫生的影响。
