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    Is your environmental credit qualified? It's not too late for businesses to correct mistakes

    • Last Update: 2023-01-04
    • Source: Internet
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    【Chemical Machinery and Equipment Network Industry News】Recently, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has selected a number of typical cases emerging from major reforms, key projects and important policies and major special work in the field of ecological environment for reference
    .
    Among them, the [Environmental Credit Evaluation] article has been serialized since October 1, 2022, and 8 cases
    have been disclosed so far.
     
    Environmental protection credit evaluation, I believe that enterprises are no stranger to this
    .
    Since the end of 2013, China has promulgated the Measures for Enterprise Environmental Credit Assessment (Trial), and in November 2019, the national unified environmental impact assessment credit platform was launched
    .
    This year, the "Opinions on Promoting the Establishment of a High-quality Development of the Social Credit System and Promoting the Formation of a New Development Pattern" also once again emphasized the need to improve the ecological and environmental protection credit system
    .

     
    At the same time, various localities have also begun to explore the mode of environmental credit supervision and have made major breakthroughs
    .
    From 2013 to 2021, according to incomplete statistics from 12 provinces (cities) including Hebei, Liaoning, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the number of
    evaluation enterprises has exceeded 740,000.
    It is reported that 21 indicators have been included in the evaluation system, and there are even 27 in Gansu, and the characteristic environmental credit evaluation index system in various places has gradually taken shape
    .
    The environmental credit supervision system has also become more and more perfect, and evaluation information and results have been shared or further opened up cross-regional credit supervision paths
    .

     
    "Although the evaluation standards vary greatly from place to place, their content basically covers the environmental behavior performance of enterprises in pollution prevention and control, ecological protection, environmental management, social supervision and other aspects, if enterprises want to obtain better environmental credit evaluation results, they need to effectively improve their environmental behavior against environmental protection credit evaluation indicators, improve the level of pollution control, and strictly abide by ecological and environmental laws and regulations
    .
    "
     
    ——Li Xuan, associate researcher at the Environmental and Economic Policy Research Center, Ministry of Ecology and Environment
     
    What happens if I have poor environmental credit?
     
    Financing, approval, and public services are now very directly related to environmental protection credit, and even linked to market costs, including various ecological environmental protection permits, special fund issuance, scientific and technological project approval, and evaluation and award activities, and force enterprises to keep their trustworthiness
    towards the result of "benefiting law-abiding".
    Correspondingly, environmental protection and trustworthiness can actually enjoy tangible benefits
    .

     
    So, can environmentally dishonest enterprises still "save themselves"?
     
    Of course, "turning on the red light" is not the goal, urging and guiding is
    .
    Environmental credit restoration is a new mechanism explored by the state for enterprises to correct mistakes, cooperate with environmental credit assessment and supervision, and create a closed loop
    of environmental credit ecology.
    The typical cases shared by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment involve the practices
    of various localities in this regard.

     
    For example, Jiangsu has set up a green, blue, yellow, red, and black environmental credit labeling system, implemented a differential water and electricity price policy, used credit punishment to urge enterprises to abide by the law, and allowed enterprises to apply for credit restoration and upgrade or restore credit ratings
    .
    It is reported that Nantong City has also improved the green credit mechanism, implemented differentiated management for enterprises with declining environmental credit assessment results caused by occasional factors, and set up a "buffer belt"
    for minor untrustworthiness.

     
    For example, in Fujian, the provincial public credit information platform synchronizes the results of environmental credit assessments, and for untrustworthy enterprises, the relevant local departments will take a series of measures to help enterprises rectify, including policy interpretation and guidance
    .
    The application for credit restoration by enterprises will be verified, reviewed, confirmed rectification and punishment period by the local government, and the information confirming credit restoration will also be synchronized to the platform
    .

     
    "After investigation and analysis, we found that most untrustworthy enterprises do not have enough understanding of the relevant policies on environmental credit restoration, resulting in enterprises failing to take the initiative to correct
    untrustworthy behavior.
    There are also some enterprises that do not know how to carry out environmental credit restoration, and some enterprises do not even know that some of their environmental violations and violations have constituted environmental dishonesty," according to the relevant personnel of the Jiangxi Yichun Ecological and Environmental Bureau
    .

     
    In this context, the development of environmental credit restoration work is more urgent
    .
    Xue Fang, deputy secretary-general of Beijing Credit Society and researcher of the Credit Legislation and Credit Assessment Research Center of Capital Normal University, also said that as the world's largest market entity, China's ecological and environmental protection and other key areas should accurately draw a "credit risk portrait" of enterprises, and achieve precise supervision, key supervision, source supervision, and credit supervision
    .

     
    Credit restoration has "strength", credit restoration has "temperature", credit restoration has "speed", credit restoration has "breadth", and Heilongjiang's requirements for exploring and implementing the mechanism of "special promotion, active service, coordinated linkage, and strengthening publicity" for credit restoration have been comprehensively summarized
    .
    Let the trustworthy get green business cards, get benefits, and reduce pressure, this is the original intention
    of the implementation of the environmental protection credit repair mechanism.

     
    Hara: Are you eligible for environmental credit? It's not too late for businesses to correct mistakes
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