2018-2022 CCICED Impact Report: Progress on Environment and Development Policies in China

As a high-level policy advisory body approved by the Chinese government, the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) is mainly tasked of studying and proposing policy recommendations on major issues of environment and development. As the highest form of policy consultation, CCICED’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) invites Chinese and international members, invited advisors and experts from home and abroad to have policy discussions on major environmental and development issues based on CCICED’s SPS reports, focusing on urgent and long-term domestic issues while responding to major concerns of the international community and building consensus on ideas. On this basis, annual policy recommendations will be formed and submitted to the State Council and relevant departments of the central government.

Since 2008, CCICED Chief Advisors’ Expert Support Group has been commissioned by the CCICED Secretariat to draft the report on “Progress on Environment and Development Policies in China and Impact of CCICED’s Policy Recommendations”. This report reviews China’s major environment and development policies introduced in the previous year and the related progress, as well as the inclusion of the main policy recommendations of CCICEDinrecent years, especially in the previous year, in China’s relevant legislation and policies. This report itself is not, however, an assessment of the impact of CCICED. By reviewing and comparing China’s policies and practices and CCICED’s policy recommendations, this report is prepared to show the relevance of CCICED SPSs and policy recommendations to the policy progress. This is the 15th report presented by CCICED Chief Advisors’ Expert Support Group.

This report reviews the progress of China’s environment and development policies over the past five years since 2018. In the same writing style as previous ones, the report is divided into several parts. Each part sums up the policy recommendations of CCICEDand the corresponding measures taken at home. A comparison of policy recommendations with policy progress is made at the end of the report for reference

Document Type: Impact Report Year: 2022 Phase: Phase VI (2017-2022) Concluded