Comporative study on some indicators of environmental performance index and pollution related health impacts in the northeast Asian countries

Abstract

Environmental protection with adaptation and resilience capacity building to climate change is one of the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development goals and one pillar of the integrated and interlinked dimensions of the development. The aim of the study is to compare some indicators of EPI and environmental pollution related health impacts of Mongolia with same indicators of the Northeast Asian countries. The study was extracted data from EPI (2020 and 2022), World Health Statistics (2022) and Human Development report 2023-2024. In the study, comparative quantitative research is used to compare for finding out similarities and differences in the indicators for selected variables of study objects of the countries.The study found that all countries EPI in this region has worsened for three years, Mongolia has the lowest EPI in comparison with regional countries and world average, and the countries except Mongolia have made progress in environmental health. The study concludes that environmental pollution and degradation has been worsened in Northeast Asian countries and with highest negative health impacts. Thus, the region has to develop special emergency environmental recovery policy and needs urgent action addressing to reduce negative health impacts of environmental pollution.