| With the rapid economic development in the world and increasing living standard, the environmental problem has become more and more concerning. Learning from some countries’ policy "treatment after pollution", China has come up with some new environmental economic strategies in the process of comprehensive treatment with the traditional methods. The trade of pollutant emission rights which has been started and promoted is one of the new policies. It refers to:under the premise of meeting the environment requirement, the legal rights and emission of the pollutants discharge can be established and allowed that could be traded like a commodity in order to control the emissions of pollutants.Since the 1990s, our country began to explore the emissions trading system and carried out the emission trading pilot in some areas.Its objects are based on sulfur dioxide (SO2) in air pollutants and chemical oxygen demand (COD) in water pollutants. According to incomplete statistics, many places have set up emissions trading platform, such as Beijing, Tianjin, Nanjing, Wuhan, Changsha and other places, while some provinces and cities trading platform is under construction. Taicang city is located in the south of Jiangsu province and on the southern bank of Yangtze River. The city borders Kunshan city to the west. Shanghai to the south, Changshu to the north. Taicang has a total area of more than eight hundred square kilometers, of which the Yangtze river makes up one hundred and forty-four square kilometers. The natural conditions in Taicang are excellent, the water and land transportation are convenient, the fundamentals of agricultural production are superb, the industry of the city is flourishing, the economic foundation is solid,therefore Taicang is one of the most developed area in our country. The rapid development of economy has increased dangerous environmental situations in Taicang. Despite the local government tighten the environmental protection policy, it still has a significant gap for the speed of environmental degradation as well as the local population’s requirement to improve the environment quality immediately. So the region now launched the exploration of emissions trading, which made the emissions of pollutants under effective control through market means has the obvious advantages than traditional means. Its function is beyond doubt, but how to make the optimization in practice remains to be further researched.Taicang city carried out the emissions trading, the comprehensive payment for initial emission permits and the successful completion of the long-distance emissions trading are both the first cases in the domestic,which have certain representativeness. This paper is based on the related theories of emissions trading and public policy, through the research and analysis of Taicang emission implementation process, it discusses the emissions trading system construction in the emissions trading, the paid for initial emission permits and other specifics in detail. The paper analyses the necessity and feasibility of implementing emission trading system in Taicang. In combination with the practices, we can find out existing problems and come up with the policy suggestions on further optimizing the system. It offered some countermeasures that can promote the development of emissions trading system in three aspects, which are combining the tradable permits and pollution reduction, the emission trading of initial emission rights for free distribution, strengthen the audit and supervision of emissions trading market. This thesis is to provide the reference for deepening development of China’s emissions trading system. |
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