In an age of global commerce and communications, informed citizens and
motivated corporations can press for environmental improvements in China.
Concerted efforts by the public to pressure China to reduce pollution will be
an important supplement to national and provincial regulations and policies.
If properly targeted to significant problems with practical solutions, NRDC
believes that substantial progress can be made addressing China’s most urgent
environmental problems, problems which also affect the rest of the world.
The Dawning of a New Age in China
Over the past five years, China has begun
to publicly disclose factory environmental
performance through a new rating system called
GreenWatch. With funding from the World
Bank, Jiangsu Province is now evaluating and
rating nearly 12,000 industrial and commercial
operations. Each year, the operations are ranked
by their impact on the environment and the
results are published. Ratings are published each
year. China’s State Environmental Protection
Administration (SEPA) has recommended that
provinces across the country now adopt this
initiative. With a similar spirit, the Institute
of Public and Environmental Affairs, a nongovernmental
organization located in Beijing,
has created a China Water Pollution Map to comprehensively and publicly disclose pollution
violators whose names have been provided by
national, provincial, and local environmental
authorities.
The power of public disclosure to supplement
government regulation has been demonstrated in
other countries. In the United States, the release
of public information about each polluting
factory under the Toxic Release Inventory is well
recognized to have significantly reduced emissions
from industrial plants across the country, even
after several decades of extensive and successful
mandatory environmental controls. The
information galvanized citizens in the public and
private sectors and focused attention on achieving
additional reductions where they were needed
most. Similar success is possible in China.

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