China is stepping up efforts to revise its regulation on new plant varieties, affording them greater protection.

In December 2015, nearly 200 countries reached a historic agreement in Paris to limit greenhouse gas emissions in hopes of curbing global warming.

Earlier this month, during a round of surprise inspections, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Environmental Protection Zhao Yangmin publicly shamed the city officials of Langfang...

The Revised Law is particularly robust compared to its predecessor and imposes harsher punishments for environmental wrongdoing.

On December 5, 2012, China's Ministry of Environmental Protection announced its 12th Five-Year Plan on Air Pollution Control in Key Regions, which aims to dramatically cut emissions of pollutants in economically dynamic areas.

As a "green" start to the new year, the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China ("MEP") announced on January 2 the introduction of a credit rating scheme ("Scheme") that will measure a company's environmental protection efforts according to a designated standard.

Recent extreme weather events have further raised global awareness of climate and environmental issues, concerns that will top the agenda at COP27 and other upcoming climate summits.

A national carbon trade program has been a hot topic as soon as China decided to launch it in 2016.

Climate change has become a key concern for China in recent years, as evidenced by its pledge to reduce carbon emissions per unit of GDP by 60% from 2015 levels by 2030.

The pilot schemes have seen a relatively high level of compliance by emitters.

The government in Beijing has moved to address soil pollution.

中国において、2014年4月24日に成立した改正環境保護法が2015年1月1日に施行されました。

In order to implement the "Plan for the Reform of the Legal Disclosure System of Environmental Information" issued by China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) in May 2021...

NGOs and ESG are two hot topics these days. An NGO refers to a non-governmental organization. In 2017, China promulgated the Law on Administration of Domestic Activities of Overseas NGOs in China...

On 26 November 2009, the State Council of the People's Republic of China announced that the PRC pledged to voluntarily reduce its carbon intensity at 40 percent - 45 percent per unit of gross domestic product by 2020 against 2005.

新冠肺炎疫情下对环境污染责任保险的考虑

In the last twelve months the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) in the People's Republic of China (PRC) has been remarkably vocal about environmental law, monitoring, and fraud...

中国科学院合肥研究院スマート機械研究所の呉正岩研究員のチームはこのほど東華大学の蔡冬清教授と協力し、光触媒による水域汚染対策

The concept of a "circular economy" took shape in the 1960s in the United States, and the term "circular economy" appeared in China in the mid-1990s.

On April 27, 2025, China took another major step in its ecological transition. The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress presented a first draft of an ambitious Environmental and Ecology Code, which is now open for public consultation.