{"id":33198,"date":"2015-09-28T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-10-30T15:05:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T15:05:26","slug":"8198-pilot-scheme-to-grade-officials-on-environmental-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/nature\/8198-pilot-scheme-to-grade-officials-on-environmental-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot scheme to grade officials on environmental protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>China is launching a wide-ranging set of ecological reforms in a bid to develop what the government calls an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/nature\/8544-china-s-new-wildlife-law-needs-to-chime-with-ecological-civilisation-green-policies\/\">ecological civilisation<\/a>\u201d.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The reforms address many of the country&#8217;s major environmental issues. Proposals cover protection of natural resource rights; establishment of a national parks system; better and stricter systems for protection of arable land and water resources management; establishment of a green financing system; and improvement of environmental compensation mechanisms.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Twelve departments of both the Central Committee and the State Council contributed to the initiative. Given the numerous interests involved, the Central Leading Group on Financial and Economic Affairs, which had no direct stake in the proposals, led the process.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The \u201cecological civilisation\u201d concept first appeared in 2007, in a report to the 17<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0National People\u2019s Congress. At the Third Plenary Session of the 18<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Central Committee in 2013, Xi stressed that China would implement \u201cecological civilisation reforms\u201d \u2013 reforms to reconcile contradictions between economic development and the environment. In April this year, the plan was restated, with the release of a document outlining the acceleration of moves to establish an ecological civilisation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Creating accountability<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Proposals include performing natural resources audits when local officials leave their posts, so as to force officials pay attention to environmental protection while in office, or be held to account when they leave. A pilot scheme will be carried out in five different locations, including Hulunbuir in Inner Mongolia. It is the first time such a trial has been proposed by central government. It will take place in three stages: a launch this year, expansion next year, then in 2017 full audits in the trial locations, with regular audits starting from 2018. The aim is to get local officials to give greater priority to the environment, compared to the economy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Although observers say Chinese leaders are keener on coming up with slogans than implementing them, this is the most authoritative reform proposal issued since Xi Jinping\u2019s advocacy of the \u201cecological civilisation\u201d concept in 2007. Pan Jiahua, director of the Centre for Urban Development and Environment at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told chinadialogue that \u201cthese plans are revolutionary.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Yang Weimin, deputy head of the Office of the Central Leading Group on Financial and Economic Affairs, explained that the aim of this initiative, apart from proposing ideals to guide future reforms, is to fill gaps in environmental governance systems \u2013 for example the lack of a property rights system for natural resources; and to provide the overarching design for environmental reforms.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sun Xinghua, deputy chair of the China Environmental Sciences Association\u2019s auditing committee, told chinadialogue that \u201cconfirmation of property rights for natural resources has never been raised before.\u201d Currently ownership of natural resources in China is unclear. Clarification of rights and responsibilities will reduce disputes and allow for valuation of natural resources. And valuation will allow the compilation of tables of \u2018natural resource debts\u2019, removing a major obstacle to auditing of natural resources when local officials leave their posts.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>However, implementation will still be difficult. Pan Jiahua expects there to be practical challenges when calculating responsibility for losses to natural resources \u2013 for example both manmade and natural factors affect air quality, making the amount of blame officials should bear difficult to calculate. These issues will have to be addressed during implementation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nor are there any mature systems in use overseas which China can learn from. Chen Chenzhao, deputy head of the National Audit Office, said that other countries audit natural resources or environmental protection \u2013 and so China needs to discover through experience how to run a combined system.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s latest blueprint for &#8220;ecological civilisation&#8221; proposes to try out ways to grade officials on environmental protection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":58189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[764],"tags":[523,537,582],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-33198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","tag-conservation","tag-ecosystems","tag-protected-areas"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO 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