China Environmental Law

The NDRC announced on August 2, that energy efficiency (energy consumption per unit of GDP) improved by 3.35% in the first half of 2009 (compared with 2.88 percent in the first half of last year).  China has set an aggressive target in its current 5 Year Plan to improve energy efficiency by 20% by 2010 [...]

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The Ministry of Environmental Protection released the English summary of its “State of the Environment” report earlier this month.  We have read it so you won’t have to.
Let’s first look at the ten achievements identified for 2008.  Where interesting facts and figures were given, we have noted them.

First, the CPC Central Committee and the State [...]

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I applaud China’s willingness to publish the results of environmental and energy audits when the results do not paint a pretty picture.  The National Audit Office (NAO) yesterday released a report containing the results of its audit of the compliance efforts of 41 major state-owned enterprises (SOE) in 2007.  It found that a number of [...]

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Premier Wen apparently announced the 2008 numbers for Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) discharges and Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) emissions reductions in his address to the National People’s Congress.  If these numbers had been released previously, I missed them.  You may recall that the 11th Five Year Plan calls for a 10% reduction in COD and SO2 [...]

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