Research On The Disclosure Of Corporate Environmental Information In Sudden Environmental Incidents

The corporate environmental information disclosure in emergent environmental events belongs to the category of the legal system of emergent environmental events.It is also a kind of special regulation in environmental information disclosure system.Whether the enterprise can publicize relevant information is crucial for the public and government to deal with the emergent environmental events.The emergent environment events have taken place frequently in recent years, which causes heavy casualty and big property losses and also bring in damages to the environment,and the lack of corporate environmental information disclosure also enlarges the damages.Therefore, the system of corporate environmental information disclosure plays an important role in responding to emergent environmental events.The existing legislation has not paid enough attention to the corporate environmental information disclosure in emergent environmental events. There are no specific regulations in terms of the subject, content and procedure,so that the current system can not meet the requirement of handling the issues properly. To improve the current system, the legislation concept should be changed and the level of relevant laws and regulations should be promoted. The laws should stipulate that enterprises shall be the subject of duty of information disclosure in dealing with emergent environmental events. Meanwhile, more specific regulations should be made to clarify what kind of information should be disclosed, such as the dynamic information during the evolution of the emergency. According to the different levels and situations of different emergency, companies should disclose the relevant information before different deadlines. In addition, to further improve the information disclosure procedure, companies shall disclose the information as long as the public ask them to do so. To protect the rights and interests of affected people, the administrative mediation, civil compensation mechanism and criminal accountability should be improved to increase the costs of corporate illegal behaviors. At the same time, the public should be granted the supervision over the corporate information and the direct litigation to protect their own rights in judicial system. The public litigation system should be further improved to protect the interests of the public and the state.