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Asia Pro Eco is designed to
strengthen the environmental dialogue between Europe and Asia, therefore
this project wants to evaluate the experience with Voluntary Approaches
within the European context and adopt it to the Chinese environment. The
project will focus on Nanjing because this city has a heavy industry, which is responsible
for 60% of the regional pollution. The aim of the project is that Nanjing City will become a National Environmental Model City, which will improve the environmental and economic
performance of the region. To achieve this the
group of most polluting companies in Nanjing will present themselves with their environmental performance
and will be the target group for the Voluntary Approach. Furthermore the
project will identify the roles of voluntary approaches in industrial
environmental management and both the positive and negative factors that
will be influencing the adoption of the voluntary environmental management
approaches in China.
Based on the overall objective, three
sub-objectives have been identified:
(1)To review the roles and
effectiveness of different voluntary environmental management approaches
based on the EU experiences, and provide a systematic analysis on both
advantages and disadvantages of command-and-control environmental management
instruments based on the experiences of China;
(2)To assess the viability of voluntary approached for
environmental management in economic sectors in China;
(3)To develop
a model suitable for China, adopting the voluntary environmental management approaches.
In this model different options of voluntary approaches will be assessed,
taking into account EU experiences and economic, social and cultural
aspects of China
The project is being
implemented in phases. In the first phase, both EU voluntary and China Command-and-control approaches will be reviewed, and then a
comparative study on EU-China environmental approaches and the first
seminar are conducted in Nanjing. The second phase will be focusing on the survey of the
companies, preliminary negotiations with the companies and data analysis in Nanjing. The third phase will start with the execution of an EU
course & study tour on EU voluntary approaches for Chinese partners and
companies' environmental managers, and then the draft voluntary model suitable
for China will be developed. Finally the second seminar will be
conducted in China.
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