主题：Implementation of Pollution Control Targets in China: Has a Central Enforcement Approach Worked?
主讲人： 四川大学 张雪华教授
主持人：西南财经大学经济与管理研究院 叶菁菁副教授
时间：2015年11月6日（周五）下午14:00—16:00
地点：西南财经大学颐德楼H513
主办单位：经济与管理研究院 科研处
主讲人简介：
Xuehua Zhang is Professor of Environmental Policy at the Institute of New Energy and Low Carbon Technology of Sichuan University. Her area of research interests is environmental policy-making, enforcement and compliance, coordinated pollution control, low carbon rural development, public participation and environmental legal institutions. She received her PhD from Emmet Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford University with a focus on political science, environmental law, and institutions. Before that, she was a policy analyst at Resources for the Future, a prominent environmental economics think-tank in Washington DC.
内容提要：
The scholarly work on China’s environmental enforcement is dominated by the preference for a centralized approach. This paper examines a centrally imposed and executed verification program designed to track the achievement of binding emission reduction targets. The program was established to curtail widespread data falsification and to realize genuine compliance. Based on an analysis of official documents and interviews with environmental officials and industry representatives, this paper found that the regional supervision centers directly under the Ministry of Environmental Protection have played an intermediary role in verification of locally-reported emission reductions. To a certain degree, the verification program has increased the difficulty for localities to falsify emission data, and the increased frequency of national and local inspections appears to have improved local compliance with the target requirements. However, significant challenges remain as verification is highly resource intensive, it has involved little public participation, and the central authority has exerted significant discretionary powers with little external oversight. All those challenges raise concerns about whether a centralized enforcement approach is sufficient to address the problem of weak policy implementation in China.
