[greenyes] Environmnent in China

["Peter Anderson" <anderson@no.address>]

Wither changes in e-waste imports and greenhouse 
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    CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 
MONITOR

      from the February 10, 2005 edition 
- 
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0210/p01s02-woap.html

      China enforcing green laws, 
suddenly
      Beijing has targeted 22 major energy 
projects to assess their 
environmental 
impact.
      By Robert Marquand | Staff writer of 
The Christian Science Monitor

      BEIJING - As 
many as 22 major dams and power stations under 
construction in China, 
including a key power facility at the controversial 
Three Gorges Dam, have 
slowed or stopped work pending an environmental 
review.

      In the first instance of its 
kind, top Chinese leaders appear to be 
throwing their clout behind laws 
requiring environmental-impact statements 
for large energy-related 
projects.

      
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      In the past decade, China's roaring 
double-digit growth, industrial 
output, and booming new-car sales have 
caused some of the worst air and 
water pollution in 
Asia.

      
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      "I think this is a significant 
moment; it signifies a new 
consciousness about the environment," says 
Elizabeth Economy of the Council 
on Foreign Relations in New York. "Pan Yue 
is spearheading that move among 
elites, and SEPA clearly has the ear of 
[Premier] Wen Jiabao."

      The environment is 
a popular grass-roots issue in China, one of the 
few issues the central 
government allows some public discussion about. Every 
top college in China 
has an active student environmental group. The 
government of President Hu 
Jintao, moreover, which has a "people first" 
platform, knows the environment 
has a special hold on the imagination of a 
broad range of Chinese - partly 
because many of the children of high-ranking 
are involved in nongovernmental 
environmental lobby groups.

      Few analysts 
say Beijing is about to allow large-scale public works 
projects, a source of 
employment and energy, to be vetoed by a small 
agency.

      Yet analysts agree the high 
profile push by SEPA is a signal - to 
reform-minded elites, a generation of 
younger educated Chinese, and 
policymakers in other countries where the 
environment gets top billing - 
that the environment will weigh more heavily 
in planning and decisionmaking.

      "There are 
about 70 environmental groups doing things at the local 
level," says Nick 
Young of China Development Brief In Beijing, which follows 
voluntary groups 
in China. "These aren't just clubs, but are active - and 
effective. The 
environment is a sector where there are real are imaginative 
possibilities 
in China."

      
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