On China's Environmental Liability Insurance System

At the beginning of the 21st century is our country economic development important period, all the people makes great strides forward to the affluent society, environment and resources by full development use. Meanwhile, the spontaneous change or the human activity have actually caused the environment destruction and the environment quality change, has threatened humanity's survival and the development, the environment question underlines. Because this kind the nature or the artificial active initiation's environment question, surpasses the human society to be possible to withstand the degree the harm ecology, the human body health and the public wealth specific event is been called the environment risk. The environment risk has the uncertainty, with difficulty characteristics and so on predictability as well as consequence gravity, once the environment risk transforms as the reality in time the environment violation, will initiate victim's relief, pollution of the environment restoration government, polluter's questions and so on environment responsibility. But our country about the environment safe practice start is late, therefore, for the dispersion enterprise environment pollution liability of compensation, maximum limit protects the victim, reduces social and the national loss as far as possible, therefore has the vital significance to our country environment insurance legal regime's discussion.