Advancing Toward Sustainable Business Practices: Task Force on Enterprises' Development and Environment

摘要

Enterprise is the most important micro subject in national economy, while it is also the most major contributor to the environmental pollution load. Therefore, many of the environment protection issues will have to be studied and analyzed at the enterprise level, before the causes and contexts of the pollution problems be can be learned, so that the policies can be more specific and practical. Task Force on Sustainable Industry Development and Environment was charged with identifying policy recommendations to energize and promote business progress toward more sustainable practices. We reviewed four different industrial sectors during the work program: cement, oil refining, sugar, and pulp and paper. Separate studies were made comparing programs for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in China with several other countries. The general approach taken was to collect current Chinese practice and best international practice in each sector. The pairs of sectors were then compared, and potential lessons drawn by analyzing the differences in performance between the two.