Although the Asia-Pacific partnership on clean development and climate is a good step on the long road to fighting global warming, it provides no concrete and effective measures on cutting greenhouse emissions as yet. |
China's environmental problems will be four or five times as bad 15 years from now if it continues in current energy consumption and pollution trends. |
If you really want to change, you need to develop a system in which the environment is a parameter that plays a more and more important role in the status or evaluation of local officials' behavior. |
It's a very good idea. But the practicality of that and how applicable it is in local situations is something very hard to do. |
My understanding is that the drafting of the law is a preparatory step to set up a central government department to supervise energy security and clean use. |
SEPA has sent out teams throughout the country for inspections. |
SEPA is busy handling highly frequent environmental accidents. It is hard for SEPA to spare more manpower and resources into pushing the regulation to every corner of the country. |
The new round of checks is a more active response and a systematic approach. But we cannot expect just one examination to solve all the potential threats. |