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【Environmental Protection in China】

China's NPC Adopts the Revised Environmental Protection Law

On 24th April 2014, the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), the

country's top legislator, has approved the Revised Environmental Protection Law. The revised law will

go into effect starting January 1st, 2015. For the first time, the law has established clear requirements for

ecological protection. The revised law has a profound influence on environmental protection and

improvement, preventing and controlling pollution and other environmental hazards, protecting public

health, boosting the ecological civilization construction and promoting the sustainable economic and

social development.

CHINA-ASEAN ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION CENTER

CHINA CENTER FOR SCO ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION

Issue 14, April, 2014

【Regional Cooperation】

CACE Attended the 5th High Level Seminar

on Environmentally Sustainable Cities

The 5th High Level Seminar (HLS) on Environmentally Sustainable Cities (ESC) was held from 28th

February to 1st March 2014 in Surabaya, Indonesia. The seminar was co-organized by Ministry of

Environment of Indonesia, Japan and Cambodia, United States Agency for International Development

(USAID) and the ASEAN Secretariat under the East Asia Summit Environment Ministers' Meeting

Framework.

The agenda includes progress review of ASEAN Model Cities, experience sharing of

environmentally sustainable cities of relevant countries, group discussion on local actions of

environmentally sustainable cities, discussion on policies on environmentally sustainable city, and

the potential of future cooperation on environmentally sustainable cities.

April, 2014 Issue 14


The Environmental Experts Meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Members was held

from 11th to 13th March 2014 in Beijing, China. It was attended by the representatives of SCO member

States including China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The rotating

chairman of this meeting was from Tajikistan. Experts from China Center for SCO Environmental

Cooperation (CSEC) also attended this meeting.

The meeting discussed the draft proposal on environmental cooperation under the framework of SCO

and adopted the minutes of the meeting. Chinese experts introduced the establishment of CSEC and the

proposal on environmental cooperation under the SCO framework, which has received positive

responses from experts of other member States.

Environmental Experts Meeting of SCO Held in Beijing

On 25th March 2014, the 15th ASEAN-China

Joint Cooperation Committee (ACJCC)

Meeting was held in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Delegations of ASEAN member States, the

ASEAN Secretariat, as well as the China

delegation led by Ms. Yang Xiuping, Chinese

ambassador to ASEAN and composed of

delegates from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

of China, China Foreign Affairs University,

the Import-Export Bank of China, China-

ASEAN Expo Secretariat,

China-ASEAN Environmental Cooperation Center (CAEC), and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

of China attended the meeting.

The meeting reviewed the progress of China-ASEAN cooperation in the priority areas in 2013, and

exchanged views on the implementation of the outcomes of the 16th China-ASEAN Summit and the

cooperation initiatives, as well as the China-ASEAN cooperation plan in 2014. The representatives from

CAEC briefed the China-ASEAN environmental cooperation progress.

CAEC Attended the 15th ACJCC Meeting

Delegates from Department of Pollution Prevention and Control of Ministry of Environmental

Protection (MEP) of China and CAEC attended the seminar. Chinese Delegation shared the

environmental protection concepts and outcomes of environmentally sustainable cities construction.



From 10th to 11th March 2014, the Expert Meeting on the Implementation of the Tripartite Join Action

Plan (2010-2014) (TJAP) among China, Korea and Japan was held in Beijing. Experts from the Institute

for Global Environmental Strategies of Japan (IGES), Korea Environment Institute (KEI) and CAEC

participated this meeting.

The Expert Meeting on Implementation Review of the TJAP

Held in Beijing

The TJAP was adopted in the Tripartite

Environmental Ministers Meeting among

China, Korea and Japan (TEMM) in 2010, in

which the three countries agreed to cooperate

in 10 priority areas. It will be ended this year

and the three countries agreed to jointly

review the current state of implementation of

the ten priority areas of TJAP. At this

meeting, experts from three countries

exchanged views and reached consensus on

the outlines of the review report and division

of work. The report will be reported to the

TEMM16 to be held in Korea, April 2014.

The Director General Meeting for TEMM16 and the 9th Tripartite

Director General Meeting on DSS held back-to-back in Daegu, Korea

The Director General Meeting for the 16th Tripartite Environment Ministers Meeting (TEMM16) and

the 9th Tripartite Director General Meeting on Dust and Sand Storm (DSS) held back-to-back in

Daegu, Korea, from 3th to 4th April 2014. The Chinese delegation led by Ms. Song Xiaozhi, Deputy

Director General of International Cooperation Department of MEP, the Korean delegation led by Mr.

Yoo Je-Chu, Director General, International Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Environment (MOE),

and the Japanese delegation led by Mr. Seki Soichiro, Director General, Global Environment Bureau,

MOE participated the meetings.

The Director General Meeting for TEMM16 adopted the schedule, agenda and related arrangements of

TEMM16, reviewed the implementation progress of TJAP and discussed priority areas for the new

Action Plan.

The 9th Tripartite Director General Meeting on DSS discussed the progress report of 2013 and work

plans of 2014 for the two working groups, as well as the new join research action plan.



TEMM16 Held in South Korea

The 16th Tripartite Environment Ministers Meeting among Korea, China and Japan (TEMM16) was

held in Daegu, South Korea from April 28th to 29th. At the invitation of the Minister of of Environment

of the Republic of Korea, the Vice Minister Li Ganjie of the Ministry of Environmental Protection of

China led the Chinese delegation attending this meeting.

The Ministers exchanged

national environmental

protection policies and

progress, discussed

regional and global

environmental issues, such

as transboundary air

pollution, biodiversity and

access and benefit sharing,

transboundary movement

of E-waste, green transition,

climate change, mercury,

etc.

The meeting reviewed the progress regarding the implementation of the Tripartite Joint Action Plan on

Environmental Cooperation (2010-2014), and adopted new priority areas for the next five years,

including air quality improvement, biodiversity, chemical management and environmental management

and environmental emergency response, circulative management of resource/3R/Transboundary

movement of E-waste, climate change response, conservation of water and marine environment,

environmental education, public

awareness and corporate social

responsibility, rural environmental

management, and transition to green

economy.

The meeting adopted the Joint

Communique. During this meeting, the

ministers awarded prize to researchers

who have made great contributions to

the tripartite environmental cooperation.

The Chinese winner of prize is Dr.

Meng Fan from Chinese Research

Academy of Environmental Sciences .

The 16th Tripartite Environment Ministers Meeting among China, South Korea and Japan (TEMM16)

was held in Daegu, a city southeast of South Korea from April 28th to 29th.

Business Forum Held during TEMM16

According to the agenda, the Business Forum and Youth Forum were held on 28th April. Authorized by

the Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, CAEC organized the delegation of Chinese

entrepreneurs to attend the Business Forum. The delegation includes four entrepreneurs from CSD

(Beijing) Environmental Protection Development Co. Led., CECEP Clean Tech Development Co., Ltd,

Qingdao New World Environmental Protection Co., Ltd, and Jiangsu PHILIP Environmental

Engineering Co., Ltd. The entrepreneur representatives from China, Japan and South Korea exchanged

views on how to make environmental industry play a positive role in promoting environmental

cooperation in Northeast Asian.

This is the 4th Business Forum held by TEMM. The 1st one was held in the course of TEMM 13 in

Busan, South Korea. Business Forum is an innovative activity of the TEMM mechanism. Ministers of

the tripartite have consensus on strengthening cooperation in business circle among three countries.

Africa-China Cooperation Meeting on Building Sustainable

Partnership Held in Shanghai

On 10th April 2014, in collaboration with World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF), CAEC convened the

“Africa-China Cooperation—Meeting on Building Sustainable Partnership”. Mr. Xu Qinghua, Deputy

Secretary General of China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development

(CCICED), Mr. Jean-Robert Goulongana, ambassador of Gabon in China, Mr. Wagadiso, ambassador

of Uganda in China, Mr. Esrom Thabo Thage, Consul General of the Republic of South Africa in

Shanghai and Ms. Li Lin, Chief Project Director of WWF China attended and addressed the seminar.

The opening part of the meeting was chaired by Mr. Victor Sikonina, Madagascar ambassador to China,

and the discussion sessions were respectively hosted by Ms. Zhou Guomei, Deputy Director General of

CAEC, and experts from WWF.

The meeting is aimed at significant issues in fields of environment and development, exchanging views

on how to promote Africa-China cooperation and building a new Africa-China strategic partnership

effectively.

April, 2014Issue 14


【China-Africa Cooperation】

According to the cooperation agreement signed by CAEC and WWF, both sides will strengthen

cooperation in policy research and practice in fields of environmental policy system framework for

overseas investment, China-Africa environmental protection, ecological footprint and sustainable

consumption and capacity building etc..

CAEC Attended the 8th MEP-UNEP Annual Consultation Meeting



【China-UNEP Cooperation】

On 8th January 2014, the 8th MEP-UNEP

Annual Consultation Meeting was convened

in Beijing, China. Mr. Tang Dingding,

Director General for International

Cooperation of the Ministry of

Environmental Protection (MEP) of China

and Mr. Ren Kaiwei, Director of Asia-

Pacific Regional Office of United Nations

Environment Programme (UNEP)

addressed the meeting. The meeting was

chaired by Ms. Song Xiaozhi, Deputy

Director General of the Department of

International Cooperation of MEP. MEP

and UNEP introduced the recent

environmental policies respectively, and

adopted the United Nations Environment

Programme (UNEP)-China National

Cooperation Framework (2014-2017).

Ms. Zhou Guomei, Deputy Director

General of CAEC attended the meeting,

representatives from Department of

International Cooperation of MEP, UNEP,

Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau,

China Banking Association, Ministry of Science and Technology, National Development and Reform

Commission, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xinhua

News Agency, Capital Airport, Tongji University, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Environmental and

Economic Policy Research Center and CAEC attended the meeting.

According to the MOU, MEP and ADB

will strengthen cooperation on pollution

prevention, ecosystem management,

environmental management and

capacity building, regional

environmental cooperation and joint

research and knowledge sharing,

through policy dialogue, personal

exchange, technical assistance, etc. This

dialogue is an important activity for

implementing the MOU.



【China-ADB Cooperation】

CAEC attended the Policy Dialogue between MEP and ADB

On 5th March 2014, the Environmental Policy Dialogue between the Ministry of Environmental

Protection (MEP) of China and Asian Development Bank (ADB) was held in Beijing. Mr. Tang

Dingding, Director General for International Cooperation of MEP, Mr. Chen Huan, Director General of

International Department of Ministry of Finance (MOF) of China, Mr. Ayumi Konishi, Director

General of East Asian Department of ADB, and representatives from MEP, MOP, ADB and national

institutions attended this meeting. Ms. Zhou Guomei, Deputy Director General of CAEC attended the

meeting and made remarks.

The meeting discussed about ‘pollution prevention and biodiversity protection, regional environmental

cooperation, environmental policy dialogue and action plan and implementation of MOU between MEP

and ADB.

【Information about CAEC】

GGGI Experts Visited CAEC

On 17th January 2014, representatives and researchers from Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)

visited CAEC to discuss cooperation issues. Ms. Zhou Guomei, Deputy Director General of CAEC

welcomed GGGI’s visit, and introduced CAEC including its main functions. She highlighted the key

research fields and outcomes, technological exchange and training activities, cooperation with other

international institutes. She stated that CAEC was working to build regional environmental cooperation

platform, design regional green economy knowledge sharing platform and relevant policy research, and

put forward proposal for the future cooperation between CAEC and GGGI.

Ms. Jennifer Butz, Principal of Northeast Asia and Central Asia Green Growth Plan and Implementation,

Mr. James Seong-Cheol Kang, Project Manager, and Ms. Guo Jiangwen, senior expert from GGGI

introduced the basic information, main function, relevant research and demonstrative projects of GGGI.

GGGI expressed strong interest in cooperation with CAEC. Both sides had the consensus that there is

great cooperation potential on promoting the development of regional green economy and green

transformation, and agreed to enhance communication, establish work relationship continually.



CAEC and WWF Signed Strategic Cooperation Agreement

On 31st March 2013, CAEC and WWF signed strategic cooperation agreement in Beijing. Mr. Guo

Jing, Acting Director General of CAEC and Mr. Lu Sicheng, CEO of WWF China signed the CAEC-

WWF Cooperation Agreement.

According to the Cooperation Agreement, CAEC and WWF will strengthen policy research and

practical cooperation in the field of environmental policy framework for overseas investment, Africa-

China environmental cooperation, ecological footprint and sustainable consumption and capacity

building.

The signing activity was moderated by Ms. Zhou Guomei, Deputy Director General of CAEC. Mr.

Shen Guofang, academician and Chinese Chief Advisor of China Council of International Cooperation

on Environment and Development (CCICED) attended the meeting.

Director of China Program of WWF Visited CAEC

On 16th April 2014, Dr. Hu Tao, Director of

China Program of WWF, visited CAEC. Ms.

Zhou Guomei, Deputy Director General of

CAEC welcomed the visit of Dr. Hu Tao and

briefly introduced the main working fields of

CAEC and research outcomes relevant to the

fields of foreign investment, trade and

environmental protection. Dr. Hu Tao introduced

the focus fields of China Program and exchanged

views on the latest development of foreign

investment, trade and environmental protection.

The two sides reached consensus on cooperation in the fields such as environmental protection for

overseas investment, trade and environmental protection, etc.

For further information, please contact:

Mr. Peng Bin

Director

Division for China-ASEAN Cooperation

China-ASEAN Environmental Cooperation Center

Tel : +86-10-82268231

Fax: +86-10-82200576

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.ChinaAseanEnv.org



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