Major report on Chinese environment and development policy now accessible to English-language audiences

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WINNIPEG—May 14, 2014—A key report that provides a unique insight into recent Chinese policy on environment and development has now been published in English, allowing English-speakers across the globe access to these vital policy findings and recommendations.

The China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) has produced its annual Policy Research Report of Environment and Development. The 2013 theme is “Environment and Society for Green Development.” The 208-page book includes policy research findings, policy recommendations to the Chinese Government, and a review of policy progress in China’s environment and development during 2012-2013. The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), headquartered in Winnipeg, Canada, has now published the report in English, bringing this information to more decision-makers, experts, scholars and members of the general public, throughout the world.

Originally published in Mandarin, the report is a product of the CCICED’s 2013 Annual General Meeting.  It comprises CCICED’s policy research findings and recommendations to the Chinese Government on topics such as “Corporate Social Responsibility in Green Development in China,” “Promoting Urban Green Travel,” “Media and Public Participation Policies on Promoting China’s Green Development” and “Sustainable Consumption and Green Development.” The publication also includes a CCICED work report for 2013.

This report serves to reinforce CCICED’s already strong relationship with IISD, and with Canada. In March 2014, IISD President Scott Vaughan served as the International Co-Chair of the CCICED Special Policy Study on Environmental Assets Audit System and Policy for Performance Assessment of Outgoing Cadres. A few months earlier, in November 2013, IISD signed a memorandum of understanding with CCICED so that knowledge between the two organizations can be shared more easily, with a view to advancing practical sustainability. Since 1992, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver has served as the Canadian Executing Agency for the CCICED Project (through which Canada’s support to CCICED is channelled), enabling CCICED’s continued growth and influence in Canada.

The China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), a high-level, non-governmental advisory body, was established by the State Council of China in 1992. Its purpose is "to further strengthen cooperation and exchange between China and the international community in the field of environment and development."

For more information please contact Sumeep Bath, media and communications officer, at sbath@iisd.org or +1 (204) 958 7740.

http://www.iisd.org/china/

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