On The Civil Public Interest Litigation For Environment In China

The earth being becoming warmer and natural disasters breaking out frequently, human living condition is worse and worse. Enviornmental protection has become a question of questions for sustainable development of human survival. However, countrymen are still immersed in the upsurge of rapid economic development, and have poor public awareness of environmental protection. Meanwhile, local governments haven't given enough attention to environmental protection either. Environmental Public Interest Litigation should not only be an important way to promote environmental protection constantly, but also an important component of the last defense for it. Environmental public interest litigation may arouse people a sense of environmental protection, through judicial channel and helping them safeguard social and public environmental benefits. On the other hand, it may make up for the inadequate environmental improvement of local governments while they are keen to economic development. Along the main line of civil action in public interest litigation for environment, grounding on several studies of efficient manuvers for environmental civil public interest litigation aboard, this essay analyses the current condition and problem of the civil public interest litigation for environment in China and makes primarily exploration on some new ways thinking for the development of the civil public interest litigation for environment in China. Furthermore, the essay proposes several suggestions for improvement in the aspect of theory, legislation,and institution system.