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This paper addresses a growing interest on the part of financial contributors, Council members, and the Government of China to understand the impact of the Council's recommendations and, therefore, ways to continue improving the effectiveness of its efforts.

This paper presents the results of a special policy study on policies for environmental protection of soil in China, including policy recommendations.

This report aims to describe achievements China made in the area of environment and development, and provide a real policy context so that members could make their own judgments as to the practical impact of policy recommendations.

First, the paper discusses the characteristics of China's water resources and China's actions to improve aquatic ecosystem service functions. Secondly, it analyzes the aquatic ecosystem service functions, the current situation and evolution of China's major aquatic ecosystems, changes in service functions of China's aquatic ecosystems, major contributing factors of the degradation of service functions of China's aquatic ecosystems, impact of reservoir and dam construction on river ecosystem…

This report looks at some of the challenges and opportunities China faces in decreasing the Footprint intensity of its consumption in order to increase its ecological security and economic competitiveness.

This document outlines the meeting from May 1994, where experts exchanged ideas on monitoring methods, training plan and next steps working plan.

This report contains preliminary findings on the basis of information obtained from reports prepared by the Chinese experts from the Working Group on Pollution Control on the environment in Guangzhou, and from discussions with Chinese experts from Guangzhou City, Chongqing City, Guangdong Province, South China Institute of Environmental Protection and Guangzhou Research Institute of Environmental Protection. remaining questions of the experts of the Netherlands are written in the text…

This report outlines the research conducted by the Working Group of Resource Accounting and Pricing Policy, including: Theoretical Framework, Research on Pricing Policy of Coal Resources in China, and a case study.

This report therefore deals with the opportunities for the widespread adoption of cleaner production in China, and the problems which must be overcome, particularly those relating to research, development and training. It is the second report of the CCICED Working Group on Scientific Research, Technological Development and Training, and draws heavily on the first report, which provided a general assessment of China's environmental sciences technology development and environmental education…

This report stresses the importance of fertilizer and pesticide industries to China's future food security.

This report outlines the Working Group on Energy Strategies and Technologies formed part of their previous recommendations to CCICED, and which have received Council support.

This report lists the main benefits being derived from various ecosystems in China, the main threats and problems jeopardizing the sustained flow of such benefits and specific recommendations for containing these threats. The two over-riding recommendation, however, remains the same as the group made to the council two years ago, namely that China is not taking the destruction of its biodiversity seriously enough and that public awareness is the most important need to raise the levels of…

This document is the Summary Record of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Council was prepared for the Canadian Support Office by Mr. Patrick Kavanagh on the basis of more detailed notes recorded during the Meeting. The Summary Record represents the Canadian Support Office's interpretation of the discussions and not necessarily the views of all the participants.

This document outlines recommendations for setting targets for cleaning up China's pollution. For example, China needs a better system of indicators and monitoring.

This council's recommendation to the Chinese Government.