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This report analyses 6 key policy areas towards green development in Western China, including: managing and restoring fragile ecosystems, managing energy and mineral resources and pollution control, improving labour quality and diversity, promoting sustainable urbanization, promoting green and inclusive industrial development and improved institutional and policy settings.

This report highlights the 12th Five-Year Plan, analyzing the present situation, building a medium-to-long term roadmap for China's efforts to further reduce pollution. Policies towards achieving the 12th FYP targets include coordinated multi-pollutant emissions reduction, sector and region-specific efforts to protect the environment and economic restructuring through total emissions control.

In addition to China's traditional coal-burning pollution, this report discusses the more severe contributor to China's air pollution -- Ozone (O3) and PM2.5 and provides policy recommendations, including: accelerated amendment to the Law on Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution, improvement of the air quality mechanism and enhancement, accelerated transformation of the economic development mode and promotion, optimization of the energy sector, sustainable coal use, and…

This report analyzes case studies such as the Penglai 19-3 oil field in the Bohai Sea of China (2011), the US ""Deep water Horizon"" drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico (2010) and the Norwegian ""Statfjord"" field in the North Sea (2007) and provides policy recommendations for China's marine environmental management. Recommendations include: an integrated national marine and environmental protection plan, a national marine emergency response plan, harmonizing marine-related national…

This report provides an overview of the work carried out by the study team comprising Chinese and international experts, who were asked to develop a set of high level recommendations for the State Council on how to deal with the growing problems of traffic congestion and traffic-related air pollution in Chinese cities. This study forms part of a wider initiative on exploring the ways in which China might develop more sustainable cities, and focuses on the contribution that 'green travel' can…

This report introduces and discusses the concept and practical approaches of Sustainable Consumption, its relationship to Green Development, sustainable urbanisation and the resulting implications for China.

The report is an update on the Eco Forum Annual Global Conference Guiyang. It was the only eco-themed national forum in China. Over 4,000 guests from home and abroad attended its 2013 conference under the theme of "Building Eco Civilization: Green Transformation and Transition -- Green Industry, Green Urbanization and Green Consumption-led Sustainable Development". (Source: China Environment News)

This report outlines the task force's key findings, which highlight that serious environmental problems expose gaps in environmental governance and that there are problems in the existing environmental protection institutions. It also argues that the modernization of environmental governance requires a redefinition of key relationships, roles and accountabilities, etc. The report also provides policy recommendations on these findings.

This report discusses the main policy recommendaitons from the task force report on a green transition process in China. Key recommendations in this report include reducing China's tendency to over-invest in physical industrial capacity with its associated excessive energy consumption and air pollution, rebalance the investment-consumption structure (e.g., fiscal and financial sector reforms), measures to address income distribution, and strengthening the social safety nets. As well, it…

This special policy report on the action plan for air pollution prevention and control in China provides key findings and recommendaitons, including: building an air quality-oriented air pollution management system, deepening joint prevention and control for regional air pollution, enhancing air pollution control based on the existing, and, establishing scientific appraisal system.

This report oulines recommendations for China's national and local ecological security and sustainable development, including: implimenting efforts to identify adequate ecological lands and water areas to ensure sustained delivery of ecosystem at a national level and strenghten the legal framework for ecological protection (e.g., creating protected areas), integrating ecological protection red lines into a reformed land-use planning process involving areas surrounding China's urban areas,…

This report outlines some key findings and recommendations on how to reach an ecological civilization in China such as knowing what is going on and setting objectives and limits based on integrated spatial planning, planning for financially-sound and adaptive development, and adhering to people-oriented urbanization.

Based on China's current situation and a review of international best practices, this report outlines special policy study five major priorities for policy, including: (1) establishing and improving the legal basis for government environmental audit, (2) strengthening government environmental audit capacity, (3) improving technical guidelines and standards for government environmental audit systems, (4) strengthening coordination between government environmental audit systems and other…

This Issues Paper tackles the overarching 2013 CCICED AGM theme, Environment and Society. The paper discusses issues such as China's Ecological Civilization, Green Development and Environmental Protection, and social factors effecting transformative environment and development shifts. It also discusses opportunities for strengthening links between China social development and Ecological Civilization, green development and environmental protection.