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First Independent Review of Provincial-Level Environmental Data in China

By Guest PostDecember 28, 2011Environmentair quality, air quality data, angel hsu, Beijing, biodiversity conservation, China, chinese government, chinese policymakers, chinese provinces, city university of hong kong, climate change, columbia university, davos, douglas kysar, energy efficiency, environmental data, environmental management, environmental performance, environmental performance index, epi, fine particulate matter, greenhouse gas emissions, hazardous air quality, marc levy, methodologies for statistics, pm 2.5, provincial level, second largest economy, toxic metals, toxics exposure, waste management, water quality, world economic forum, yale university

A team of researchers jointly led by Yale University and Columbia University has released a report that introduces a framework for assessing China’s environmental management and performance. This analysis offers the first independent review of Chinese provincial-level environmental performance by international researchers.

The report, “Towards a China Environmental Performance Index,” introduces a model framework for environmental performance indicators to assist the Chinese government in tracking progress toward policy goals, as well as recommendations for how the Chinese government can apply more aggressive performance metrics to environmental decision-making. (more…)

Have We Changed Our Ways After the BP Oil Spill? Not Really

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—On the heels of last week’s federal recommendations to help prevent another BP oil spill disaster, a University of Michigan researcher says the tragedy has come close to acting as a catalyst for deeper change—but not quite.

“The BP oil spill is, potentially, a ‘cultural anomaly’ for institutional changes in environmental management and fossil fuel production,” said Andrew Hoffman, professor of management and organizations at the Ross School of Business and a professor at the School of Natural Resources and Environment. “But true change in our approach to handling issues related to oil drilling, oil consumption and environmental management have yet to occur.” (more…)

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First Independent Review of Provincial-Level Environmental Data in China

Have We Changed Our Ways After the BP Oil Spill? Not Really