China News Service, Beijing, June 5 (Reporter Zhang Su) June 5 is World Environment Day. The Supreme People's Court of China released the 2021 China Environmental Resources Trial Data and Report, which shows that the international influence of China's environmental justice has increased significantly. .
According to statistics, in 2021, courts across the country will accept a total of 297,492 first-instance cases of environmental resources and conclude 265,341 cases, up 8.99% and 4.76% year-on-year respectively.
According to statistics, as of the end of last year, a total of 2,149 specialized judicial institutions and judicial organizations for environmental resources had been established across the country, and the construction of environmental judicial organizations had entered a normalized track.
The "China Environmental Judicial Development Report (2021)" was jointly completed by the Environmental Resources Judicial Research Center of the Supreme People's Court and the Environmental Resources and Energy Law Research Center of Tsinghua University.
The report believes that in 2021, the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate will aim to build an environmental justice system with Chinese characteristics and important international influence, export the "Chinese experience" of environmental justice to the world, and issue more "from China" in global environmental governance. The voice of "China's wisdom", which has continuously promoted environmental justice, has emerged in the field of environmental protection in the world.
The report mentions that China has set up a home for environmental justice diplomacy and stepped up international cooperation.
For example, the World Environmental Justice Conference, which was successfully held in Kunming, Yunnan last May, was the first major venue for China's environmental justice diplomacy.
During this period, China promoted the adoption of the Kunming Declaration of the World Conference on Environmental Justice, which clarified the three basic principles for dealing with the crisis in the environmental field, proposed four measures for environmental justice, and summed up three key points of environmental justice, so as to strengthen the global environmental crisis for all countries in the world. the judicial response to provide practical judicial solutions.
In terms of "improving the international influence of Chinese cases", the report mentioned that the UNEP portal published 10 Chinese environmental and resource judicial cases last year.
In addition, the "Green Peacock Case", as the first of the top ten biodiversity cases in the world, was selected for the 15th Conference of the Parties exhibition of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.
The Supreme People's Court stated that the next step will be to consolidate and expand international exchanges and cooperation, and strive to build an environmental resource trial system with Chinese characteristics and international influence.
The report suggests that the judicial department should continue to promote the construction of a specialized system of environmental justice, strive to improve the level of specialized capabilities in environmental justice, such as hearing cases related to carbon trading, river basins and endangered species in accordance with the law, and promote the formulation of biodiversity judicial protection opinions as soon as possible. Judicial interpretation, and actively explore the cross-regional centralized jurisdiction system with national parks as the standard.
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