Preliminary Approval Of Emission Permits Will Be Completed Next Year.

The general office of the State Council recently issued the "guiding opinions on further promoting the pilot work of paid use and trading of emission rights" (hereinafter referred to as the "opinions"), and deployed to give full play to the role of the market mechanism in environmental protection and pollutant emission reduction, and to promote the continuous and effective reduction of the total discharge of major pollutants. It is proposed that the pilot areas in 2015 will fully complete the emission rights approval of the existing pollutant discharge units before the end of 2015, and basically establish a paid use and trading system of emission permits by the end of 2017, laying the foundation for the full implementation of the paid use and trading system of emission permits.

Insiders said in an interview with reporters, "at present, many textile and industrial cities and counties in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have launched the emission trading. Now the State Council has issued the "opinions", and once again made clear the time requirements for the pilot tasks.

To activate Trading market The pilot areas should actively support and guide the pollutant discharge units to reduce pollutant emissions by eliminating backward and excess capacity, clean production, pollution control, technological upgrading, upgrading, and so on, and form "surplus emission rights" to participate in market transactions; establish a pollutant discharge reserve system, repurchase the emission rights list, "surplus emission rights", and timely launch the market, focusing on supporting strategic emerging industries and major scientific and technological demonstration projects.

According to the opinion, the local people's governments in the pilot areas should strengthen the organization and leadership of the pilot work. Service guarantee 。 Pilot areas should promptly disclose the right to discharge pollutants and emission permits. Royalty We should collect information on the use, emission rights auction and repurchase, and local environmental quality and total pollutant control requirements, so as to ensure that the pilot work is open and transparent.

Sewage disposal units for excessive emission permits or fraudulent practices in transactions shall be dealt with severely and exposed according to law. All regions and relevant departments should fully understand the importance of the pilot work, properly handle the relationship between the government and the market, the reform and innovation of the system and maintain stable economic development, the relationship between new and old enterprises, pilot areas and non pilot areas, grasp the timing, intensity and pace of the pilot policy, and adjust the local conditions and step by step to push forward the pilot work.