B. What does corporate environmental responsibility include?

Protecting the ecological environment is an inevitable requirement for solving current environmental problems and seizing great opportunities to achieve strategic development

  1. The first 20 years of this century are an important period of strategic opportunity that our country must seize. We must realize the grand goal of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way. Due to the fact that my country's extensive economic growth mode has not been fundamentally changed, the environmental legal system has not been perfected, the environmental management force is relatively weak, the ecological environment is not optimistic in some areas, and the national environmental security has been threatened.

In the next few years, my country's chemical, paper, metallurgy and other industries will still occupy a certain position in the industrial structure, and the coal-based energy structure will be difficult to change temporarily. Therefore, it is difficult for structural pollution to fundamentally change in the short term. In the process of urbanization, the construction of urban environmental infrastructure is still lagging behind, the problems of urban environment are still prominent, and pollution may transfer and spread to the countryside. The continuous growth of my country's population and the transformation of consumption will also produce unprecedented environmental pressures. Therefore, in order to seize the period of strategic opportunity and build a well-off society in an all-round way, we must conscientiously implement the strategic deployment and various measures for building a resource-saving and environment-friendly society proposed by the Fifth Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the CPC Central Committee. For the future, plan ahead.

   2. Protecting the ecological environment is an important basis and content for implementing the scientific concept of development and achieving sustainable development. Natural resources and ecological environment are the cornerstones of any country's economic and social development. The support for the basic needs of human life and all the raw materials needed for modernization are all gifts from nature. Natural resources are not inexhaustible, and the natural environment is also limited in the absorption and purification of human waste. At the expense of wasting resources and sacrificing the environment, development cannot last long. In order to implement the scientific concept of development and realize comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development, we must attach great importance to the importance of the environment to development, and pursue the harmony between economy and environment, as well as harmony between man and nature.

Efforts should be made to change the extensive economic growth mode with high resource consumption, high energy consumption and high pollution discharge as the basic characteristics, and change the phenomenon of economic growth rate at the cost of ecological environment damage. If the skin does not exist, the hair will be attached. Without ecological protection, sustainable development is impossible. Protecting the ecological environment is China's unshirkable historical responsibility. Since the founding of the People's Republic of my country, our country has participated in or concluded a variety of international conventions and treaties on the protection of the environment and resources in an active and responsible attitude towards international environmental and resource protection affairs, and introduced the spirit of these documents into national laws and policies. . Participation is commitment, and commitment means responsibility.

The various countermeasures and measures we have taken to protect the ecological environment are to implement the international environmental treaties that have been signed and ratified, and to undertake international obligations commensurate with the level of development, so as to make efforts to improve the global environment. As a developing country, we can't be slack and negligent in environmental protection, and we can't do nothing. China must make its due contribution to the peace and development of mankind and the environmental protection of human society.

   3. The next period will not only be a period in which my country's ecological environment is facing enormous pressure, but also a period in which environmental protection work will make great achievements. Since the reform and opening up, especially after the 1990s, the Party Central Committee and the State Council have placed environmental protection in an important position. Since the "Eighth Five-Year Plan", the state has incorporated environmental protection into the five-year plan for national economic and social development, and implemented a series of fundamental measures for ecological environment construction and protection, such as controlling polluting enterprises, protecting natural forests, and returning farmland to forests and grasslands. my country has promulgated the National Outline of Ecological Environmental Protection, and based on the Environmental Protection Law, it has successively promulgated 8 environmental protection laws, more than 30 administrative regulations on environmental protection and nuclear safety, and more than 70 departmental regulations. In recent years, my country's environmental protection work has made important progress. In some cities and regions, the trend of increasing environmental pollution has been basically controlled, environmental quality has been improved, and ecological environmental protection and construction have been strengthened. Environmental protection is a long way to go. We must earnestly study and understand the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, fully recognize the importance, arduousness and long-term nature of protecting the ecological environment, adhere to the basic national policy of protecting the environment, increase efforts to protect the ecological environment, and gradually improve the ecological environment. , to create favorable conditions for sustainable economic and social development.

To protect the ecological environment, we must develop a circular economy and take a new path of industrialization. With the goal of improving resource utilization efficiency, reducing pollutant emissions, improving life quality and economic benefits, rationally adjust industrial structure, optimize industrial layout, give full play to the government's leading role and market mechanism, increase investment in environmental protection funds, and promote The construction of ecological provinces, ecological cities and ecological counties will effectively transform the mode of economic growth. It is necessary to scientifically understand and consciously follow the laws of nature, adhere to the priority of protection and orderly development, focus on controlling unreasonable resource development activities, and strengthen the ecological protection of natural resources such as water sources, land, forests, grasslands, and oceans. It is necessary to adhere to prevention first and comprehensive management, strengthen the prevention and control of pollution from the source and protect the ecology, and resolutely change the situation of pollution first and then treatment, and pollution at the same time. To protect the ecological environment, we must speed up the legal process of environmental protection. It is necessary to speed up the formulation and improvement of environmental laws, regulations and standards, further establish and improve the environmental supervision system, improve environmental supervision capabilities, strengthen environmental protection law enforcement, accelerate the establishment of ecological compensation mechanisms, and implement total emission control, emission permit and environmental impact assessment systems. Government departments should formulate and implement green development policies, establish a green national economic accounting system, and incorporate environmental losses and environmental benefits from excessive development into the scope of GDP accounting. .

To protect the ecological environment, the public must be encouraged to participate actively. It is necessary to carry out extensive environmental protection publicity to improve the public's awareness of environmental distress; to implement environmental information disclosure and to strengthen public participation in environmental supervision; to actively encourage, guide and integrate various non-governmental environmental protection organizations, play their due roles, safeguard the public's environmental protection rights and interests, and actively Develop environmental protection industry. It is necessary to further strengthen international cooperation, actively participate in the negotiation of international environmental conventions, actively participate in bilateral, multilateral and regional cooperation, and undertake corresponding international obligations, so as to ensure national environmental security and enhance my country's influence in international environmental affairs. Protecting the ecological environment is related to the safety of the people and the well-being of future generations.

In the new stage of the new century, we have a heavy responsibility to protect the ecological environment. We firmly believe that under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Hu Jintao as General Secretary, we will be able to fully implement the Scientific Outlook on Development, correctly handle the relationship between man and nature, development and the environment, unite as one, and make persistent efforts to create China in an all-round way. Make new contributions to the new situation of socialist construction with characteristics!