Indicators-Based Environmental Performance Assessment for China’s Total Emission Reduction Policy During the 11th FYP (2006–2010)

Abstract

This report is product of cooperation project between Chemicals Branch, DTIE, UNEP and CAEP, MEP, China under Small-Scale Funding Agreement (No.NF/4030–10-62–2201) signed in 27th Jan, 2011 with 30,000USD funds from UNEP to CAEP (Phase I) and a continuation SSFA was (No.NF/4030–10-85) signed in 26th, Nov, 2012 with 28,500 USD funds from UNEP to CAEP as supporting (Phase II). In phase I, the project aims to adopt international best practice and policy evaluation tools to assess policy performance of China’s Total Emission Reduction Policy in the period of 2006–2010 (11th FYP) at national level and pilots study in provincial level. While in the research, the project has adopted DPISR conceptual framework to form an indictaors-based evaluation system to assess the policy performance at implementation stage. In phase II, the project has three research tasks: 1 Revise the indictaors-based evaluation system at national level according to the new requirements of the policy in 12th FYP (2011–2015) in which two complusory reduction pollutants became to four; 2 Establish indictaors-based evaluation system for provincial and municipal level based on statistical characteristics; 3 Develop indictaors-based evaluation system for sectoral level, the pilot study was carried out in textile sector. Upon the project completion in 2013, it has quantified Total Emission Reduction Policy performance at national level between 2006 and 2010 and proposed a series of mature methods for assessing performance of emission reduction policy at provincial, municipal and sectoral level.