Latest comments posted about Environmental protection in China: the role of law on ChinaDialogue en-gb http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/745-Environmental-protection-in-China-the-role-of-law http://staging.chinadialogue.net/images/cdlogo.gif http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/745-Environmental-protection-in-China-the-role-of-law Even if the WTO declared that by 2020 China will be one of world's number one travel destination, at that point China will still be agonizing over its environmental issues. I'm guessing the WTO didn't say this. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:44:29 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/745#comment-9854 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/745#comment-9854 Hello I am very much happy to read all about your Enviromental history it take much time to a achieve a lot. We are Mada Enviromental project we are asking you kindly to fund us with some martrials as we are just a baby rising up and also want to be a partnership with you. Thank Director Lukobi-Johnson Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:24:29 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/745#comment-4025 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/745#comment-4025 According to the forecast form WTO, China will attract 1.37 billion of tourists from all over the world by 2020, this will replacing France as the most popular tourist spot in the world, and becoming the Strong Tourism Country in the world. With such a rapid grow of tourist industry, however under improper care of tourism resources development and organizational management, are lead to environmental pollution, disruption of biodiversity, excessive consumption of resources and other relevant issues caused those superior industries encounter difficulties in development. The foundation for tourist industry to progress further depend on tourism resources, if it has been destroyed, tourist industry will becoming water without a source, and a tree without roots. As such, tourism resources has to be conserved in continuing its contribution to tourist industry, to achieve sustainable development, as it is the lifeline in developing tourist industry. Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:10:38 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/745#comment-3215 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/745#comment-3215 In some provinces that rely mainly on the mining industry, for example, the mining industry is an important source of economic revenue. Local governments pursue a path leading to the best possible income growth for that particular province. Whilst doing so, they basically do not consider the damage done to the environment, and thus cause large-scale destruction to the vegetation. When spring arrives, before the crops have broken through the soil; as soon as the spring breeze blows over the earth and arable land, the dusty soil is picked up and turns the air dirty. Naturally, this has received some attention over the past few years. But it is very difficult to reverse past destruction, or bringing environmental degradation to a halt. What's more, the situation is not improving. Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:33:55 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/745#comment-2034 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/745#comment-2034 I agree that the rule of law should be strengthened in China. But this attempt is only an ineffective solution in practice when talking about efforts in environmental protection. Not to comment on if the US is pursuing green policy or not as the Bush Administration declined to sign on the Kyoto Protocal. If the U.S. accepted the agreement, it is definitely to be strictly implemented in that country. But this probably will be a different case in China. Laws exist in China, but it is possible for them not to be implemented. There is no exception with environmental laws. Personally I think to tackle China’s environment issues, the key efforts should focus on building a better political system to deal with the issues, instead of improving environmental laws. This means China needs to make efforts from scratch. This is an effective solution applying to China’s situation, because to graft foreign countries’ laws onto Chinese practices will prove to be a failure. by senior programme development office of the Global Environmental Insitute Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:37:09 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/745#comment-2004 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/745#comment-2004 The PRC has come a long way in implementing far clearer and therefore easier (in theory) to implement and enforce environmental laws in the last five years. It's SEPA and their local EPB's lack of human resources and institutional capacity within the government ($$$ and political clout) to enforce their own laws. I think we all hope that this Fall's 17th National Congress will see SEPA's role become greatly enhanced all the way from National all the way down the line to the local enforcement bureaus where enforcement actively happens. Enough of these short term political campaigns: it's high time to start vigorously enforcing the laws already on the books ! Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:44:16 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/745#comment-1627 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/745#comment-1627 China's environmental troubles have already become critical. They can be rectified, but the cost is already very high, cutting entire percentage points off annual growth. The problem I see is two-fold. One, officials are still rewarded for high economic growth, whether or not they also look after the environment. I hear no news that this will change. Until politicians are directly penalised for letting polluters run rampant, there will be no incentive to enforce laws that already exist, let alone new ones. Second, officals are completely unaccountable to the people they should be looking after. In recent weeks, the Sunday Times published opinion polls that suggested that ordinary people in polluted areas deem prioritising cleaning up the environment the overriding priority - even if that means slower growth. Yet the officials had the complete opposite view. They can rest easy in the knowledge that even protesting against them is grounds for arrest - and there's always hired thugs to "sort out" the ringleaders. Even reporters are not safe, as recent events show. So in two ways, there is no reason for officials to change their attitudes. They won't be punished if growth is high and they can't be voted out of office by people that suffer. And if anyone takes to the streets, they can lock them all up, or arrange an "accident" for those in charge. The environment in China will not begin to noticable improve until either the central Party punishes officials for not tackling pollution, or the people are empowered to take action themselves and given legal protection for doing so, or telling their stories in public. Anyone who argues against this is probably doing so because they live in a less polluted part of the country and want the poorer classes to suffer so they can have an easy lifestyle. That is completely wrong. Raj Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:05:02 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/745#comment-1389 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/745#comment-1389 China is in dire need to improve its environment laws. There is no time to delay doing so. Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:58:51 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/745#comment-1326 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/745#comment-1326