School of International Law, East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai 200042, China.
Transportation College, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Aug 12;19(16):9978. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19169978.
Global environmental governance is the fundamental way to solve the human environmental crisis. With China as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the development of China's environmental law is a key component of global environmental governance. In order to better realize the construction of an ecological civilization, the compilation of China's Environmental Code has been officially put on the work schedule of the legislature. The compilation of the code is a sincere action, showing that China has taken the initiative to assume its own responsibility for environmental governance. In the past 50 years, China's environmental legislation has achieved a great leap forward: from nothing to something, from something to something more comprehensive. Aside from this progress, defects such as the internal imbalance of the environmental law system, the backwardness of some environmental legislation ideas, and the inability of environmental legislation and its academic research to fully match China's national conditions also exist. With the helping hands of conditions and times, it is most appropriate for China to start the compilation of the Environmental Code now. Environmental Codes such as the Swedish Environmental Code, the French Environmental Code and the German Environmental Code (Draft of the Committee of Experts) provide many empirical references for the compilation of China's Environmental Code. China will make important an contribution to world environmental governance again-an Environmental Code in line with international standards while maintaining native characteristics.
全球环境治理是解决人类环境危机的根本之道。中国作为世界上最大的温室气体排放国,其环境法的发展是全球环境治理的关键组成部分。为了更好地实现生态文明建设,中国的环境法典编纂工作已正式列入立法机关的工作日程。法典的编纂是一种真诚的行动,表明中国已主动承担起环境治理的责任。在过去的 50 年里,中国的环境立法取得了巨大飞跃:从无到有,从有到更全面。除了这一进步,环境法律体系内部不平衡、一些环境立法理念落后以及环境立法及其学术研究无法充分适应中国国情等缺陷也依然存在。在条件和时代的助力下,中国现在启动环境法典的编纂工作再合适不过了。瑞典环境法典、法国环境法典和德国环境法典(专家委员会草案)等环境法典为中国环境法典的编纂提供了许多经验借鉴。中国将再次为世界环境治理做出重要贡献——一部符合国际标准、同时又保持本土特色的环境法典。