Policy Interaction

EEPC actively participates in the process of policy reform in China's forest sector and has been the main force in conducting extensive surveys and rigorous analyses on emerging policy issues as well as air quality management, water pricing policy reform etc. The goal of the EEPC is to help the government make intelligent decisions in the process of decentralization in order to reduce the cost of reform and to set a foundation for the sustainable management of natural resources.

EEPC focuses on applied policy related research. In particular it attempts to identify the areas of environmental policy improvement and address the policy needs in conducting social and economic assessment of ongoing public programs. Currently, EEPC is mainly concentrated on analyzing the process of state forest sector reform and collective forest tenure reform, evaluating the reform performance against the set criteria and providing policy suggestions. Issues under investigation by EEPC include national forest management, forest governance in collective forests, transformation of state-owned forest enterprises, pollution control policy, environmental indicators, water and soil conservation, as well as water resource allocation.

During 2010 EEPC has been stick to rigorous environmental economics research in policy related spheres, with most of its focus on following up with China’s collective forest tenure reform and providing policy recommendations to cope with current problems and future challenges. EEPC has also been involved in the preparation for mechanism improvement in state-owned forest areas, in terms of policy dialogues with relevant policy-making department in the State Forest Administration of China.

Policy recommendations have been provided by EEPC in association with Beijing Transportation Research Center of Beijing Municipal Commission of Transportation, based on the co-organized international conference on urban transportation management and environmental policy in August 2010. Meanwhile, lectures and training programs are given to civil servants by EEPC staff in governmental agencies on regional air quality management and climate change mitigation, to influence policy-making in the environmental and energy domain and risk management.

In the context of the global climate change, EEPC has engaged in the monitoring and drafting reports on the projects of carbon accounting and credit market designing and agricultural carbon sequestration, commissioned by the Management Office on CDM Projects, SFA since 2008.