The Legal Response To Climate Change Of China

Global climate change is increasingly becoming a topic of common concern, since the first World Climate Conference in 1979, the first time climate change as a cause of concern to the international community to put on the agenda of questions. Subsequently, in recent years, climate change for many countries more and more attention to its adverse impacts and disasters have posed a serious threat to the survival of mankind and the environment, sustainable development. China also severely affected by climate change, China's future climate warming will further aggravate; case of extreme weather and climate may increase the frequency; uneven distribution of precipitation phenomenon more evident, the frequency of heavy precipitation events increased; possible to expand the scope of arid zone; further exacerbated by the trend of sea level rise. Especially in 1997, by nearly a hundred years of strong El Nino phenomenon rarely seen in the impact of global climate anomalies occur, frequent occurrence of natural disasters. Sustained wanning of our climate, there to high temperatures and drought in the north is characterized by the meteorological disasters, weather conditions are poor agricultural year. The face of adverse climate change impact of our country have also introduced a series of measures and actions. Has introduced the "China's National Climate Change Program" (hereinafter referred to as "program") and "to deal with climate change Chinese policies and actions," White Paper on addressing climate change and other programs.Climate change is not only the environment of a threat to our country, but also for China's economic development strategy, energy strategy, greenhouse climate control, coastal development, as well as areas such as agriculture and forestry resources have formed a severe challenge. Therefore, to address climate change in China has become an important task before us. Our country to address climate change also made corresponding efforts to address climate change to participate actively in international co-operation and bear the relevant international treaties and so on to determine the emission reduction obligations. Last year, with the "program" and "White Paper" The introduction of more shows our country's determination to address climate change. "Program" and "White" is against the status quo of the Chinese climate change and formulate the corresponding challenges of climate change to deal with the principles and mechanisms. This article is in the "program" and "White Paper" on the basis of interpretation, in view of China's specific national conditions, to analyze how our country should be the level of the legal system to deal with climate change. Measures of these laws, there are existing laws and regulations, and to draw on foreign legal systems, at the same time, mitigation of climate change on important content - must have made cleaner production analysis. I hope to explore a deal with the legal path of climate change to China's climate change activities and measures to be able to standardized and institutionalized.This article is divided into three parts, the first part of the Chinese response to climate change and challenges the status quo. System of climate change on China's current situation and challenges, in order to take targeted measures to address climate change to provide a basis.The second part of the Chinese regime to address climate change and principles. Some combination of the "program" and "White Paper" on the content of our current system of responding to climate change analysis of the principle, in order to take measures to address climate change to provide the guiding principles.The third part, the Chinese response to the legal response to climate change. This article is the part of the core of the provisions from existing laws, how to improve the relevant legal system, how the implementation of legal remedies to climate change, international cooperation in law, as well as the national response to enhance the legal awareness of climate change were analyzed. China's climate change law to provide the corresponding reference.