Policy and legislation of China’s low-carbon development

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10.2991/icaees-15.2015.276How to use a DOI?

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low-carbon, policy, legislation

Abstract

China has formulated many policies of low-carbon development and enacted a number of related laws and regulations and using policies and legislations to promote the low-carbon development. China brings forward more policy instruments, including macro-policy, energy policy and renewable energy policy, as well as carbon sequestration policies. Currently the only related specialized legal instrument in China, Decision on Active Response to Climate Change, only has nominal provisions without specific operation system. The newly reviewed Environmental Protection Act firstly used the word “low-carbon”, but failed to make any clear stipulations on low-carbon development. In terms of legislation, there are some provisions of carbon emission reduction in the energy law. Meanwhile, there are some articles of carbon sequestration in the ecological law. These two legislations constitute the basic legal environment of low-carbon development in China.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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