Location
Room 108
Start Date
3-7-2012 2:40 PM
End Date
3-7-2012 4:20 PM
Description
There is no law directly aim at climate change in China currently. The existing rules and regulations of climate change basically include three parts: the first part is policies, such as China’s National Climate Change Program. The second part is legislations, including the contents of environmental protection, climate change, energy saving and emission reduction, which are stipulated in constitutional law, basic law of environmental protection, laws on energy utilization, specific laws of environmental protection, regulations and government rules. The last part is initiatives from civil society. These legislations of climate change stipulate relevant legal liability, including public law liability and private law liability. The public law liability contains administrative liability stipulated in laws on energy utilization, specific laws of environmental protection, and criminal liability stipulated in criminal law. The private law liability is mainly environmental tort liability.
Presentation
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Legislations and Legal Liability of Climate Change in China
Room 108
There is no law directly aim at climate change in China currently. The existing rules and regulations of climate change basically include three parts: the first part is policies, such as China’s National Climate Change Program. The second part is legislations, including the contents of environmental protection, climate change, energy saving and emission reduction, which are stipulated in constitutional law, basic law of environmental protection, laws on energy utilization, specific laws of environmental protection, regulations and government rules. The last part is initiatives from civil society. These legislations of climate change stipulate relevant legal liability, including public law liability and private law liability. The public law liability contains administrative liability stipulated in laws on energy utilization, specific laws of environmental protection, and criminal liability stipulated in criminal law. The private law liability is mainly environmental tort liability.