Host country China and the Secretariat of the CBD announced dates for the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention of Biological Diversity to be convened in two parts in Kunming, China.
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) issue the 14th Five-Year Plan of Action for the Control of Plastic Pollution.
The Opinions on Deepening the Reform of the Ecological Protection show that the ecological protection compensation system is an important means of implementing the rights and responsibilities of ecological protection.
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) of the People’s Republic of China issued the Action Plan for Plastic Pollution Control of the 14th Five-Year Plan.
The leading group to establish the carbon emission accounting system will be headed by the Department of Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection of NDRC and the National Bureau of Statistics.
The amendment to the Montreal Protocol, which was first signed in October 2016 and regulates the phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons, has become effective in China as of 15 September 2021.
MEE drafted the Measures for the Administration of Legal Disclosure of Corporate Environmental Information and the Guidelines on the Form of Legal Disclosure of Corporate Environmental Information.
On 11 September, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) issued “The Dual Control Plan on Total Energy Consumption and Energy Intensity”, which targets projects designated as having high energy- and emissions-intensity, emphasizing firm regulation of such projects. The policy requires stronger central and local energy consumption indicators and more elasticity in the management of the total amount of energy consumption.
Following the formal conclusion of the 2021 Annual General Meeting of CCICED, the 2020-2021 Special Policy (SPS) Reports were published.
China launched the pilot of green power trading on 7 September 2021. More than 250 domestic and international companies participated in the trade on the first day with a trading volume of 7.9 billion kWh of green power.
