Environmental Protection Credibility Assessment

This is an important system for reinforcing environmental regulation and driving market entities to fulfill their responsibilities for environmental protection and increase their environmental governance capacity.

Since 2012, a number of documents have been worked out to guide the assessment of the performance of enterprises regarding environmental protection. 

The 19th CPC National Congress decided to improve the system for the assessment of environmental protection performance.

This system takes respecting, accommodating and protecting nature as the standards of conduct for the government, enterprises, public institutions and the general public. Mechanisms have been set up to provide incentives for good faith actors and take punitive actions against bad faith actors. This will give enterprises and public institutions the incentive to improve their conduct and fulfill their legal obligations and social responsibilities concerning environmental protection, guide the public in environmental supervision, and call for coordination of relevant government departments, so as to build a sound credibility system.

The introduction of credibility is an innovative and effective way to encourage the enterprises and public institutions to uphold self-discipline in environmental protection.

環(huán)保信用評價

環(huán)保信用評價是加強生態(tài)環(huán)境監(jiān)管的重要抓手，是推動市場主體履行生態(tài)環(huán)境保護責任、提升生態(tài)環(huán)境治理能力的重要舉措。中共十八大以來，按照中共中央、國務院關于生態(tài)文明建設和社會信用體系建設的部署，國家發(fā)展改革委、環(huán)境保護部會同有關部門先后印發(fā)《企業(yè)環(huán)境信用評價辦法（試行）》《關于加強企業(yè)環(huán)境信用體系建設的指導意見》等文件，環(huán)境信用評價制度得以確立。2017年10月，中共十九大進一步提出健全環(huán)保信用評價制度。

環(huán)保信用評價制度，將尊重自然、順應自然、保護自然的生態(tài)文明理念和要求作為中國政府、企事業(yè)單位和社會公眾的道德規(guī)范和行為準則，通過建立環(huán)境保護“守信激勵、失信懲戒”的機制，督促企事業(yè)單位持續(xù)改進環(huán)境行為，自覺履行環(huán)境保護法定義務和社會責任，引導公眾參與環(huán)境監(jiān)督，促進有關部門協(xié)同配合，推進環(huán)境信用體系建設。在環(huán)境保護工作中引入信用機制，是中國政府引導企事業(yè)單位實現(xiàn)環(huán)境自律、創(chuàng)新生態(tài)環(huán)境領域監(jiān)管方式的有力舉措。