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RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF
OPEN ENVIRONMENTAL
INFORMATION IN CHINA
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Wu Qi
April 29, 2013
Legal Regime: Open Environmental
Information
• Regulations on Open Government
Information, State Council, 2007
• Measures on Environmental Information
Disclosure, MEP, 2007
• Both effective May 1, 2008
Legal Regime: Open Environmental
Information - History
• Pilot experiment starting 1999:
• Zhen Jiang & Hohhot
• Rate companies using five colors based on its environmental
performance, and make the results to the public.
• Sustained in Zhenjiang but was stopped in Hohhot after only the
pilot phase.
• SEPA Ministerial Circular: November 2005
• introduce technical guidelines and require all urban municipalities
to rate industrial environmental performance and to make that
information publicly available.
Legal Regime: Open Environmental
Information - History
• Laws, regulations, policy statement
• Cleaner Production Promotion Law in 2003
• Local authorities disclose the companies which fail to meet the energy
consumption control target or key pollutants emission control target
• The companies disclosed by local authorities should disclose to the public
information about its energy conservation and key pollutant emissions
• State Council Decision on Carrying out Scientific Development
Philosophy to Strengthen Environmental Protection in 2005
• Call for environmental information disclosure and public participation
• Provisionary Measures on Public Participation in Environmental
Impact Assessment (EIA) in 2006
Legal Regime: Measures on
Environmental Information Disclosure
• Governmental information disclosure &
Corporate information disclosure
• Affirmative disclosure & Disclosure upon
request
Measures on Environmental Information
Disclosure – Government Disclosure
Scope of environmental information disclosure - 17 types of
information:
Environmental protection departments must affirmatively disclose the following information to
the public (Chapter II, Section 1, Article 11):
1) Laws, regulations, rules, standards and other regulatory documents with respect to
environmental protection;
2) Environmental protection plans;
3) Environmental quality status;
4) Environmental statistics and environmental investigation information;
5) Emergency plans for and forecast, occurrence and handling of sudden
environmental events;
6) Information on allocation of total emission quotas of major pollutants and its
implementation, information on issuance of pollutant emission permit and results of quantitative
examination of comprehensive improvement of urban environment;
7) Information on type, volume and disposal of solid waste produced in medium to
large cities;
8) Information on the acceptance of environmental impact assessment documents of
construction projects, results of examination and approval of environmental impact assessment
documents accepted and results of environmental protection inspection and approval upon
completion of construction projects, items, basis, conditions, procedures and results of other
environmental protection administrative licenses;
Measures on Environmental Information
Disclosure – Government Disclosure
9) Items, basis, standards and procedures with respect to the collection of pollutant
emission fees, amount of pollutant emission fees payable by and amount actually imposed on
polluters and information on exemption, reduction and postponement of payment of pollutant
emission fees;
10) Items, basis, standards and procedures of environmental protection administrative
charges;
11) Letters, calls and complaints from the public about environmental issues or
environment pollution caused by enterprises investigated to be true and their handling results;
12) Information on environmental administrative penalties, administrative
reconsideration, administrative lawsuits and enforcement of administrative compulsory
measures;
13) List of enterprises with severe pollution and whose emission of pollutants is greater
than the national or local emission standard or whose total emission of pollutants is greater
than the quota of total controlled emission determined by local people’s government;
14) List of enterprises that have incurred serious or extraordinarily serious
environmental pollution accidents or events, list of enterprises that refuse to enforce effective
environmental administrative penalty decisions;
15) Results of examination and approval of environmental protection creation;
16) Information on the structure, responsibilities and method of contact of environmental
protection department; and
17) Other environmental information that shall be disclosed according to laws,
regulations and rules.
Measures on Environmental Information
Disclosure – Corporate Disclosure
• Mandatory Disclosure: The EPB publishes a list of
enterprises that have violated their permits/emissions
standards, and they must disclose the following information
within 30 days:
• Their name, address and legal representative;
• Name of major pollutants, method, content and total volume
of emission, information on emission that has surpassed the
standards or total emission that has surpassed the
prescribed limits;
• Information on the construction and operation of their
environmental protection facilities; and
• Emergency plans for sudden environmental pollution
accidents.
• Voluntary Disclosure
Measures on Environmental Information
Disclosure – Disclosure upon request
• Government agencies must respond to environmental
information requests within 15 days, with the possibility of
an extension.
• If people or NGOs feel believe an environmental
protection department has failed to fulfill its environmental
disclosure obligations
• they may report it to the higher level environmental protection
department. The environmental protection department that receives
the report shall urge the environmental protection department at the
lower level to perform its obligations
• Administrative reconsideration or litigation
Latest Progress:
• Environmental Quality Information:
• 74 cities disclose real-time PM2.5 data since January 1, 2013
• Corporate emission disclosure:
• Measures on Monitoring of key pollutants Total Emission Control
(TEC) under the 12th Five-Year Plan
• Automatic monitoring machine: real time disclosure
• Manual monitoring: disclose the other day
• Agencies disclose supervisory monitoring data 15 days after each
season
• Measures for the Registration of Hazardous Chemicals for
Environmental Management
Latest Progress:
• Companies using or producing hazardous chemicals shall
release an annual report before January each year:
• the variety and hazard properties of the produced and used
hazardous chemicals ,
• release of the relevant pollutants,
• facts about accidents and pollution prevention and control
measures.
• Companies using or producing hazardous chemicals for
priority environmental management should additionally
disclose release and transfer information of priority
hazardous chemicals and characteristic pollutants, as well
as the monitoring results.
Observation from Civil Society
• PITI (Pollution Information Transparency
Index)
• Developed by NGOs: IPE & NRDC
• Annual assessment of environmental
transparency level of 113 cities in China
Access to Environmental Information in China
PITI Methodology
• Records of Enterprise Violations
28 points
• Results of Enforcement Campaigns
against Polluting Enterprises8 points
•Clean Production Audit Information
•
8 points
• Enterprise Evaluation Performance
Ratings8 points
• Verified Petitions and Complaints18 points
• EIA Reports and Project Completion
Approvals8 points
• Discharge Fee Data4 points
• Public Information Requests
18 points
PITI Methodology
Systematic
Disclosure Timeliness
Comprehens
iveness
User-
Friendliness
Ra
nk
City
Total
2011
PITI
Change Rank City
Total
2011
PITI Change Rank City
Total
2011
PITI Change
Score Score Score
1 Ningbo 83.7 Unchanged 39 Beihai 45.3 Up 77 Baotou 28.8 Up
2 Shenzhen 83.3 Up 40 Kunming 45 Up 78 Pingdingshan 28.4 Up
3 Changzhou 76.8 Up 41 Weihai 43.8 Down 79 Lianyungang 27.9 Up
4 Zhongshan 76 Up 42 Guilin 43.2 Up 80 Changsha 27.5 Up
5 Taizhou 75.4 Up 43 Guiyang 43.2 Up 81 Yangquan 26.7 Up
6 Foshan 74.6 Up 44 Jiaozuo 42.9 Up 82 Anyang 26.3 Up
7 Beijing 72.9 Up 45 Yancheng 41.3 Up 83 Nanchang 26 Up
8 Wenzhou 72.7 Up 46 Huzhou 40.9 Up 84 Shaoguan 25.6 Up
9 Dongguan 72.1 Up 47 Changde 40.4 Up 85 Zhuzhou 25.2 Up
10 Qingdao 70.6 Up 48 Anshan 40 Up 86 Xianyang 24.6 Up
11 Shanghai 68.8 Unchanged 49 Xiangtan 39.6 Up 87 Fushun 24.1 Up
12 Fuzhou 68.1 Up 50 Zhuhai 39.4 Unchanged 88 Qinhuangdao 24 Up
13 Chongqing 67.1 Up 51 Shenyang 39.3 Up 89 Rizhao 23.2 Unchanged
14 Nantong 63.1 Unchanged 52 Jingzhou 39.2 Unchanged 90 Changchun 23.2 Unchanged
15 Nanjing 62.7 Up 53 Daqing 39.1 Unchanged 91 Zaozhuang 22.8 Unchanged
16 Guangzhou 61.2 Up 54 Zhanjiang 39 Up 92 Jining 22.6 Unchanged
17 Wuxi 60.3 Up 55 Weifang 38.8 Up 93 Yueyang 22.2 Unchanged
18 Hangzhou 60.2 Up 56 Zhengzhou 38.4 Down 94 Linfen 22 Unchanged
19 Suzhou 60.1 Unchanged 57 Benxi 38 Up 95 Qiqiha’er 21.6 Unchanged
20 Quanzhou 58.4 Down 58 Yantai 37.3 Down 96 Panzhihua 21.2 Unchanged
21 Ma’anshan 57.1 Up 59 Chengdu 36.7 Unchanged 97 Ordos 20.8 Unchanged
22 Shantou 56.7 Up 60 Tongchuan 36.5 Up 98 Jilin 20.8 Unchanged
23 Wuhan 56 Up 61 Shizuishan 36.2 Up 99 Jiujiang 20.8 Unchanged
24 Luoyang 55.8 Up 62 Urumqi 35.8 Unchanged 100 Baoji 20.4 Unchanged
25 Nanning 55.8 Up 63 Xuzhou 35.3 Unchanged 101 Datong 20.4 Unchanged
26 Hefei 55.2 Unchanged 64 Tangshan 34.7 Down 102 Jinchang 19.6 Unchanged
27 Shijiazhuang 55 Up 65 Handan 34 Unchanged 103 Yan’an 19 Down
28 Yichang 54.7 Unchanged 66 Harbin 32.6 Down 104 Qujing 19 Down
PITI Findings
• The environmental information disclosure system
is being established initially.
• Over the past four years the average PITI score for the
113 cities has increased.
• Information disclosure has made breakthroughs in
some places.
• Some cities developed good practices
Beijing:
Wuhan:
Shanxi:
Dongguan:
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Access to Environmental Information in China

  • 1. RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF OPEN ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION IN CHINA Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Wu Qi April 29, 2013
  • 2. Legal Regime: Open Environmental Information • Regulations on Open Government Information, State Council, 2007 • Measures on Environmental Information Disclosure, MEP, 2007 • Both effective May 1, 2008
  • 3. Legal Regime: Open Environmental Information - History • Pilot experiment starting 1999: • Zhen Jiang & Hohhot • Rate companies using five colors based on its environmental performance, and make the results to the public. • Sustained in Zhenjiang but was stopped in Hohhot after only the pilot phase. • SEPA Ministerial Circular: November 2005 • introduce technical guidelines and require all urban municipalities to rate industrial environmental performance and to make that information publicly available.
  • 4. Legal Regime: Open Environmental Information - History • Laws, regulations, policy statement • Cleaner Production Promotion Law in 2003 • Local authorities disclose the companies which fail to meet the energy consumption control target or key pollutants emission control target • The companies disclosed by local authorities should disclose to the public information about its energy conservation and key pollutant emissions • State Council Decision on Carrying out Scientific Development Philosophy to Strengthen Environmental Protection in 2005 • Call for environmental information disclosure and public participation • Provisionary Measures on Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in 2006
  • 5. Legal Regime: Measures on Environmental Information Disclosure • Governmental information disclosure & Corporate information disclosure • Affirmative disclosure & Disclosure upon request
  • 6. Measures on Environmental Information Disclosure – Government Disclosure Scope of environmental information disclosure - 17 types of information: Environmental protection departments must affirmatively disclose the following information to the public (Chapter II, Section 1, Article 11): 1) Laws, regulations, rules, standards and other regulatory documents with respect to environmental protection; 2) Environmental protection plans; 3) Environmental quality status; 4) Environmental statistics and environmental investigation information; 5) Emergency plans for and forecast, occurrence and handling of sudden environmental events; 6) Information on allocation of total emission quotas of major pollutants and its implementation, information on issuance of pollutant emission permit and results of quantitative examination of comprehensive improvement of urban environment; 7) Information on type, volume and disposal of solid waste produced in medium to large cities; 8) Information on the acceptance of environmental impact assessment documents of construction projects, results of examination and approval of environmental impact assessment documents accepted and results of environmental protection inspection and approval upon completion of construction projects, items, basis, conditions, procedures and results of other environmental protection administrative licenses;
  • 7. Measures on Environmental Information Disclosure – Government Disclosure 9) Items, basis, standards and procedures with respect to the collection of pollutant emission fees, amount of pollutant emission fees payable by and amount actually imposed on polluters and information on exemption, reduction and postponement of payment of pollutant emission fees; 10) Items, basis, standards and procedures of environmental protection administrative charges; 11) Letters, calls and complaints from the public about environmental issues or environment pollution caused by enterprises investigated to be true and their handling results; 12) Information on environmental administrative penalties, administrative reconsideration, administrative lawsuits and enforcement of administrative compulsory measures; 13) List of enterprises with severe pollution and whose emission of pollutants is greater than the national or local emission standard or whose total emission of pollutants is greater than the quota of total controlled emission determined by local people’s government; 14) List of enterprises that have incurred serious or extraordinarily serious environmental pollution accidents or events, list of enterprises that refuse to enforce effective environmental administrative penalty decisions; 15) Results of examination and approval of environmental protection creation; 16) Information on the structure, responsibilities and method of contact of environmental protection department; and 17) Other environmental information that shall be disclosed according to laws, regulations and rules.
  • 8. Measures on Environmental Information Disclosure – Corporate Disclosure • Mandatory Disclosure: The EPB publishes a list of enterprises that have violated their permits/emissions standards, and they must disclose the following information within 30 days: • Their name, address and legal representative; • Name of major pollutants, method, content and total volume of emission, information on emission that has surpassed the standards or total emission that has surpassed the prescribed limits; • Information on the construction and operation of their environmental protection facilities; and • Emergency plans for sudden environmental pollution accidents. • Voluntary Disclosure
  • 9. Measures on Environmental Information Disclosure – Disclosure upon request • Government agencies must respond to environmental information requests within 15 days, with the possibility of an extension. • If people or NGOs feel believe an environmental protection department has failed to fulfill its environmental disclosure obligations • they may report it to the higher level environmental protection department. The environmental protection department that receives the report shall urge the environmental protection department at the lower level to perform its obligations • Administrative reconsideration or litigation
  • 10. Latest Progress: • Environmental Quality Information: • 74 cities disclose real-time PM2.5 data since January 1, 2013 • Corporate emission disclosure: • Measures on Monitoring of key pollutants Total Emission Control (TEC) under the 12th Five-Year Plan • Automatic monitoring machine: real time disclosure • Manual monitoring: disclose the other day • Agencies disclose supervisory monitoring data 15 days after each season • Measures for the Registration of Hazardous Chemicals for Environmental Management
  • 11. Latest Progress: • Companies using or producing hazardous chemicals shall release an annual report before January each year: • the variety and hazard properties of the produced and used hazardous chemicals , • release of the relevant pollutants, • facts about accidents and pollution prevention and control measures. • Companies using or producing hazardous chemicals for priority environmental management should additionally disclose release and transfer information of priority hazardous chemicals and characteristic pollutants, as well as the monitoring results.
  • 12. Observation from Civil Society • PITI (Pollution Information Transparency Index) • Developed by NGOs: IPE & NRDC • Annual assessment of environmental transparency level of 113 cities in China
  • 14. PITI Methodology • Records of Enterprise Violations 28 points • Results of Enforcement Campaigns against Polluting Enterprises8 points •Clean Production Audit Information • 8 points • Enterprise Evaluation Performance Ratings8 points • Verified Petitions and Complaints18 points • EIA Reports and Project Completion Approvals8 points • Discharge Fee Data4 points • Public Information Requests 18 points
  • 16. Ra nk City Total 2011 PITI Change Rank City Total 2011 PITI Change Rank City Total 2011 PITI Change Score Score Score 1 Ningbo 83.7 Unchanged 39 Beihai 45.3 Up 77 Baotou 28.8 Up 2 Shenzhen 83.3 Up 40 Kunming 45 Up 78 Pingdingshan 28.4 Up 3 Changzhou 76.8 Up 41 Weihai 43.8 Down 79 Lianyungang 27.9 Up 4 Zhongshan 76 Up 42 Guilin 43.2 Up 80 Changsha 27.5 Up 5 Taizhou 75.4 Up 43 Guiyang 43.2 Up 81 Yangquan 26.7 Up 6 Foshan 74.6 Up 44 Jiaozuo 42.9 Up 82 Anyang 26.3 Up 7 Beijing 72.9 Up 45 Yancheng 41.3 Up 83 Nanchang 26 Up 8 Wenzhou 72.7 Up 46 Huzhou 40.9 Up 84 Shaoguan 25.6 Up 9 Dongguan 72.1 Up 47 Changde 40.4 Up 85 Zhuzhou 25.2 Up 10 Qingdao 70.6 Up 48 Anshan 40 Up 86 Xianyang 24.6 Up 11 Shanghai 68.8 Unchanged 49 Xiangtan 39.6 Up 87 Fushun 24.1 Up 12 Fuzhou 68.1 Up 50 Zhuhai 39.4 Unchanged 88 Qinhuangdao 24 Up 13 Chongqing 67.1 Up 51 Shenyang 39.3 Up 89 Rizhao 23.2 Unchanged 14 Nantong 63.1 Unchanged 52 Jingzhou 39.2 Unchanged 90 Changchun 23.2 Unchanged 15 Nanjing 62.7 Up 53 Daqing 39.1 Unchanged 91 Zaozhuang 22.8 Unchanged 16 Guangzhou 61.2 Up 54 Zhanjiang 39 Up 92 Jining 22.6 Unchanged 17 Wuxi 60.3 Up 55 Weifang 38.8 Up 93 Yueyang 22.2 Unchanged 18 Hangzhou 60.2 Up 56 Zhengzhou 38.4 Down 94 Linfen 22 Unchanged 19 Suzhou 60.1 Unchanged 57 Benxi 38 Up 95 Qiqiha’er 21.6 Unchanged 20 Quanzhou 58.4 Down 58 Yantai 37.3 Down 96 Panzhihua 21.2 Unchanged 21 Ma’anshan 57.1 Up 59 Chengdu 36.7 Unchanged 97 Ordos 20.8 Unchanged 22 Shantou 56.7 Up 60 Tongchuan 36.5 Up 98 Jilin 20.8 Unchanged 23 Wuhan 56 Up 61 Shizuishan 36.2 Up 99 Jiujiang 20.8 Unchanged 24 Luoyang 55.8 Up 62 Urumqi 35.8 Unchanged 100 Baoji 20.4 Unchanged 25 Nanning 55.8 Up 63 Xuzhou 35.3 Unchanged 101 Datong 20.4 Unchanged 26 Hefei 55.2 Unchanged 64 Tangshan 34.7 Down 102 Jinchang 19.6 Unchanged 27 Shijiazhuang 55 Up 65 Handan 34 Unchanged 103 Yan’an 19 Down 28 Yichang 54.7 Unchanged 66 Harbin 32.6 Down 104 Qujing 19 Down
  • 17. PITI Findings • The environmental information disclosure system is being established initially. • Over the past four years the average PITI score for the 113 cities has increased. • Information disclosure has made breakthroughs in some places. • Some cities developed good practices