Study on the connection between heavy metal pollutant emission trading and current environmental management policies & regulations
Emission trading,as a market-oriented resource allocation method,can achieve the goal of controlling the total pollutants emissions at a lower cost.At present,emission trading for heavy metal pollutant in China is still exploring.On the basis of work carried out by regions on heavy metal pollutant emission trading in China,the connection between emission trading and current environmental management policies regulations was identified and analyzed according to five elements(emission property confirmation,trading price,trading rules,trading supervision,and trading efficiency).The results showed that connections between the heavy metal emission trading and 16 environmental management policies ®ulations were recognized,including pollution prevention and control policies,environmental impact assessment,and pollutant discharge permit.Among them,the widest scope of connection were found as total emission control,pollutant discharge permit,and administrative penalty.According to the number of connected policies regulations,the order of the five elements were found as following:trading rules>pollution property confirmation=trading efficiency>trading price=trading supervision.Specifically,for property confirmation,pollution prevention and control policies,environmental impact assessment,and so on were connected with scope and basis of property confirmation.Enterprises could be promoted to comply with the law actively through the price incentive mechanism,but little connection between trading price and currnt environmental policies and regulations was found.Only in some regions were connection found in the performance evaluation of industrial enterprises,environmental functional zoning,and"three lines and one list".For trading rules,connection were found in pollution prevention and control policies,environmental impact assessment,and pollutant discharge permits,which could help the implementation of regional,industrial,and other policies ®ulation,from the regional scope,industrial scope,pollutant source scope and trading procedure scope.For trading supervision,connection were found in pollutant discharge permits and total emission control,promoting legal implementation of pollutant discharge permits.For trading efficiency,connection were found in total emission control and green finance with stimulating the vitality of the emission trading system.
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