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Strategy for Introducing Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment in Northeast Asia

Young-Joon Lee 1,  Nankyoung Moon 1

1한국환경정책·평가연구원

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Northeast Asia including China, Japan, Mongolia, Russia, DPRK and ROK, is ageographically close region that falls under the same environmental influence. Recently the region isnot only facing serious domestic environmental problems with rapid economic growth, but alsoconfronted with transboundary environmental problems and associated conflicts between countries. Unfortunately, Northeast Asia lacks a solid environmental management system among countries todeal with transboundary and other environmental issues. Transboundary Environmental ImpactAssessment (TEIA) can, therefore, be one of the essential systematic measures in which environmental problems between countries would be negotiated. However, it would be necessary to have an indepthdiscussion of what we have to do first for implementing TEIA system in the region, and howto operate it while customizing each Northeast Asian country with different EIA system and socioeconomiccircumstance. All these cannot be decided in a short time, and we need to invest enoughtime for discussing and considering them from various aspects. Recently, the Korean governmentdeclared “Eurasia Initiative”. The initiative proposes important developing projects and ultimatelyplans to build a peaceful community throughout Eurasia based on comprehensive cooperation. Theinitiative aims to increase exchanges in transportation, energy and agricultural sectors to achieve thegoals. In this regard, implementing TEIA in Northeast Asia is urgently needed and we have to preparethe strategy for introducing TEIA mechanism. Based on the results of 10 year experience on TEIAprojects conducted since 2004, we suggest double-track approaches for developing TEIA mechanism. We continuously need to make an effort to establish a regional TEIA mechanism that all countrieslegally join, and simultaneously we also have to prepare a process to carry out TEIA for upcomingprojects based on bi- or multi-lateral agreements. Practical solutions such as conducting pilot TEIAwith relevant countries and developing TEIA guideline for the region could be the first step.

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