China Environmental Law

If that headline doesn’t drive traffic to this site, I don’t know what will!
Shanghai as we have previously discussed prepares three-year plans for the environment.  Major items to be included in Shanghai’s 4th Three-year action plan (2009-2001) were addressed in this post.  At the “Call for Green China” conference, however, Lin Weiqing of the Shanghai [...]

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Ever since the 7th Five -Year Plan China has prepared a separate environmental protection plan.  The contents of the 12th Five-Year plan (十二五) are already under consideration, and we got a very broad view of the national planning effort and a more specific view of the Shanghai planning effort at the “Call for Green China” [...]

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The US-China climate change reports issued last week by the Asia Society/Pew Center on Global Climate Change  (”ASP Report“) and the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings  (”BI Report“) should be read in tandem.  They are solid pieces of work and provide the best framework for bilateral engagement on climate change.  Implementation of their [...]

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Two interesting pieces of news have emerged from China’s just concluded ”national energy work session.”  cnYES reports (Chinese only) that:    
1. The public comments submitted with respect to China’s Energy Law have been carefully considered, and a draft of the Energy Law was submitted in January to the State Council Legislative Affairs Office (we will try to get a copy [...]

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