China Environmental Law

Its time for a little R&R and fall cleaning.  I’m going to be taking a little breather during the National Day holiday.  I hope to have some time to cleanup and add to my blogroll (a long overdue task), attend to email correspondence, and install a plug-in or two to add more features to the site.  Don’t [...]

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The balance of the year seems to be chock full of cleantech conferences, forums, and symposia. What money there is left out there seems to be chasing cleantech deals, and every budding entrepreneur is preparing a business plan for a new product or service.  I’m not complaining mind you.  It’s good for business here at [...]

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For those of you keeping score at home, the first half SO2 and COD numbers were released earlier this month.  Compared with the first six months of 2007, the following reductions were achieved for the comparable period of 2008:
SO2:  3.96%
COD: 2.48%
Zhou Shengxian, the Minister for Environmental Protection said
the good momentum that discharge of both major [...]

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Kunming continues to make environmental news.  According to China .org.cn ”[h]igh accumulations of arsenic have caused severe water pollution in Yangzonghai Lake, Kunming City.”  Fishing and swimming have been banned in the Lake and an emergency plan to provide safe drinking water to the nearly 30,000 people who rely on the Lake as their drinking water [...]

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Kunming, capital of southwestern China’s Yunnan Province, has submitted a plan to City officials for the approval of a specialized court to handle environment-related lawsuits.  China Radio International reports that it will be a “trial” court, but the description of the court says that it
will be part of the city’s intermediate people’s court and will have [...]

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What to make of the conflicting signals in the press regarding China’s stance during the next round of climate change negotiations?At the beginning of the month Reuters reported that
Hu Angang, a public policy professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, warned failure to act could doom global climate change talks.
In submissions to leaders and a recent essay, Hu has [...]

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The awards keep rolling in here at CELB.  This time it’s the Shanghai government’s Magnolia Award, which is the highest honor bestowed by the City on foreigners who have “contributed significantly to Shanghai’s economic performance, international relations, business environment, management standards and community development.”  That’s CELB’s contribution in a nutshell, but truth be told, I [...]

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If any local officials are actually tagged for failing to achieve environmental or energy goals within their jurisdictions, they can’t say they weren’t warned.  Whether China’s environmental watchdog has any new “bite” remains to be seen, but it certainly has increased the volume of its barking.
Xinhua reports 
The Ministry of Environment Protection on Wednesday [September 10] [...]

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Chapters Three and Four of the China’s new Circular Economy Law impose specific requirements on a number of different enterprises and products/activities. Is your business covered?  Check out our handy compilation below.
Enterprises
Industrial Enterprises:

“shall use advanced or applicable water-saving technologies, techniques and equipment, work out and implement water-saving plans, strengthen water-saving management and exercise control over [...]

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The 3R substantive heart of China’s new Circular Economy Law is found in Chapter Three, which deals with “reduction,” and Chapter Four which deals with “recycling and reuse.”  They contain a hodgepodge of requirements which seem to have been somewhat arbitrarily thrown together.
Reduction (Chapter Three)
Another catalogue, this one entitled the Catalogue of the Encouraged, Restricted [...]

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