Promoting Environmentally Friendly Enterprises in China : A Sino-Swedish bilateral environment co-operation project

• Preface Co-operation with China in the field of Environment and Sustainable Development is of key strategic importance for the Swedish foreign policy, economic cooperation, global environmental policy and development co-operation policy. In 2002 a Memorandum of Understanding on environmental cooperation, between the Ministry of Environment Protection of the People’s Republic of China (MEP) and the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, was signed in Johannesburg. The MoU was renewed in 2007 between MEP and the Swedish Ministry of Environment. Within the framework of the Memorandum a Programme for Cooperation on Environment and Sustainable Development between MEP and the Swedish EPA has been developed. The programme, which is co-funded by Sida, the Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency, will run from 2007-2010. Through this programme the cooperation is taking a step forward even though Swedish support and engagement in this field represent only a very small part of China’s overall development co-operation. However, co-operation is important at the strategic level with institutions and decision- makers that can influence the long term conditions for environment in the country, as well as its impact on a regional and global scale, which has been underlined in Sida’s “Strategy for Environmental Co-operation with China”. It prioritises awareness creation, policies and institutional framework, environmental economic thinking, effects on consumption and health and demonstrations of sustainable solutions with technology to act as driving forces for sustainable development. Within the framework of the programme different projects have been developed: • Strengthening of the MEP Capacity for Drinking Water Management Strengthening of the MEP Chemical Management Capacity • Technical Assistance in Substitution of DDT Based Antifouling Paint in China • Reduction and Control of Dioxin in the Pulp and Paper Industry in China Before the programme mentioned above was decided upon, a project on Capacity Building on WTO and Environmental Protection was planned and has now been carried out. In addition, the present project, Capacity Building for MEP to Promote Environmentally Friendly Enterprises in China (EFE), has become a part of the programme. The aim of this project is to enhance the MEP capacity and competence in industrial environmental management in general and the promotion of environmentally friendly enterprises through a close policy dialogue with the Swedish EPA. Two main problems have been addressed in particular: firstly the general policy instruments for promoting environmental progress in industry and the industrial pollution control that needs to be improved and diversified, secondly the enhancement of MEP´s capacity to promote environmentally friendly enterprises through the voluntary, so called CEFE-programme. This has been realised by exploring and exchanging experiences of different policy interventions used in China and Sweden in order to promote environmental progress in industry, as well as providing recommendations on how to solve the problems which have been encountered during the project. This project was implemented between September 2006 and January 2009 and various activities have been carried out such as study tours, workshops, research and training courses as well as the production of reports on various topics. This final report from the project contains an overview of the findings of the project. The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency January 2009 

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)

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