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Today, environmental credit evaluation has been widely used in green finance, market supervision, price adjustment and other fields, and has become a green business card and green driving force on the road of enterprise development. Trustworthy people "get benefits, reduce pressure" and enjoy better administrative services , financing services, public services and lower market costs.
□ Our reporter Zhang Wei
As a "ruler" for environmental supervision, the role of environmental credit evaluation has become increasingly prominent.
Earlier this year, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Promoting the Construction of a Social Credit System for High-Quality Development and Promoting the Formation of a New Development Pattern" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"), which clearly proposed to improve the ecological and environmental protection credit system.
Fully implement credit evaluation in the fields of environmental protection, soil and water conservation, etc., and strengthen the sharing and application of credit evaluation results.
Since the introduction of the "Measures for Enterprise Environmental Credit Evaluation (Trial)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures") at the end of 2013, my country has gone through nearly ten years of environmental protection credit construction and achieved positive results.
All regions are actively exploring the environmental protection credit supervision model, and a batch of replicable and scalable institutional innovations and practical innovations have been formed.
5 colors to distinguish corporate credit
Green, blue, yellow, red and black, these five colors have special significance in the field of ecological environment in Jiangsu Province.
They are the marks that distinguish the environmental credit rating of enterprises.
Enterprises with higher environmental credit ratings can enjoy lower-priced credit, water and electricity and other element resources and more reputation resources.
A construction company in Jiangsu was extremely impressed by this logo.
In March 2021, the Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment imposed two administrative penalties on the company's unapproved nighttime construction in Area A.
In April of the same year, another project in Area B of the company was also complained by the public for noise disturbance caused by unapproved night construction, and was subject to administrative punishment again.
According to the "Measures for Environmental Credit Evaluation of Enterprises and Institutions in Jiangsu Province", the company's environmental protection credit rating was rated as red, and it belongs to an untrustworthy enterprise in environmental protection. information platform.
Subsequently, the financial institution implemented a differentiated credit policy for the company based on its environmental credit rating, and the company was restricted from lending due to environmental breaches.
Credit punishment is like a sharp sword, which makes the company feel the pain: the company is not only listed as a key supervision object by the Nanjing Municipal Ecological Environment Department, but also has been urged to pay and restricted loans by many banks, and cannot participate in the government during the period of administrative punishment announcement Procurement and project bidding are faced with the risk of capital chain breakage, and the operating pressure is huge.
The company took the initiative to communicate with the Nanjing Municipal Ecological Environment Department, actively applied for credit restoration, and gave timely feedback on the rectification situation.
The company organizes all employees to study environmental protection laws and regulations, and comprehensively strengthens employees' law-abiding behavior and integrity awareness education during the construction process.
Comparing with various ecological and environmental protection standards at each construction site, strengthen the monitoring and management of the construction site.
Strictly implement the approval procedures for construction at night, and dare not touch the legal red line again.
In October 2021, the company has no more environmental violations, the publicity period of administrative punishment has expired, the environmental protection credit has been restored, the limited loan quota with a total amount of nearly 1 billion yuan has been restored, the capital chain risk has been resolved, and business operations have returned to the right track.
According to statistics, by the end of 2021, the loan balance of major banking institutions in Jiangsu Province to enterprises participating in environmental credit evaluation in the province was 1.99 trillion yuan, an increase of 802.3 billion yuan from the end of the previous year.
Among them, the balance of loans to green and blue grade enterprises totaled 1.98 trillion yuan, accounting for 99.25% of the balance, an increase of 800.7 billion yuan over the end of the previous year.
Measures such as urging rectification, compressing and exiting, and clearing and disposing of red and black-rated enterprises were taken, involving a total loan balance of 3.7 billion yuan, and the balance accounted for only 0.19%.
Over 740,000 companies were evaluated (times)
"The application of the social credit system in the field of ecological and environmental protection can play a huge role," said Li Zhiyong, a professor at the School of Finance at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics.
In Li Zhiyong's view, ecological credit is an important part of the construction of the social credit system.
Improving the ecological and environmental protection credit system will promote the mutual promotion of the credit system and green development, improve the green financial standard system and evaluation mechanism, assist the high-quality construction and development of my country's modern economic system, and make important contributions to my country's carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals. .
As early as the end of 2013, the "Measures" included 21 indicators in four aspects: pollution prevention, ecological protection, environmental management, and social supervision into the evaluation system. Enterprises, carry out environmental credit evaluation, and classify and manage environmental integrity, good, warning, and bad enterprises.
The national unified environmental impact assessment credit platform was launched in November 2019.
At present, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across the country have carried out environmental credit evaluation to varying degrees.
From 2013 to 2021, according to incomplete statistics from 12 provinces (cities): Hebei, Liaoning, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Shandong, Henan, Hunan, Guangdong, Chongqing, and Sichuan, more than 740,000 companies have been evaluated (times ).
On this basis, provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) explore and innovate environmental credit evaluation indicators with local characteristics in combination with local characteristics and actual work practices.
For example, the total score of the environmental credit evaluation of Zhejiang enterprises is 1000 points, including three first-level indicators, including environmental compliance (300 points), environmental management and ecological protection (300 points), and social responsibility (400 points). Several secondary indicators; Gansu places enterprise environmental protection standardization construction and enterprise environmental protection credit evaluation in the same framework, and adopts a 500-point scoring method. The indicators cover 5 categories of 27 items and 122 specific requirements, such as the implementation of the main responsibility of environmental protection and the operation and management of pollution control facilities. .
Liaoning, Jiangsu, Hunan, Guangxi and other places use the environmental behavior scoring system for evaluation, and on the basis of the initial score, the corresponding points are scored according to the deduction or bonus indicators.
"Although the evaluation criteria are quite different from place to place, their content basically covers the environmental behavior of enterprises in many aspects such as pollution prevention and control, ecological protection, environmental management, and social supervision. If an enterprise wants to obtain better environmental credit evaluation results It is necessary to effectively improve its environmental behavior according to the environmental credit evaluation indicators, improve the level of pollution control, and strictly abide by the laws and regulations of the ecological environment." said Li Xuan, an associate researcher at the Environmental and Economic Policy Research Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.
Promote credit classification and supervision
Today, environmental credit evaluation has been widely used in green finance, market supervision, price adjustment and other fields. In Li Xuan's words, environmental credit evaluation has become a green business card and green driving force on the road of enterprise development. reduce stress” and enjoy better administrative services, financing services, public services and lower market costs.
"Because our company's environmental protection credit is good, we quickly obtained the radiation safety license, and the project was put into operation at the fastest speed." The relevant person in charge of Huzhou Nanfang Logistics Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Nanfang Logistics) said.
In Zhejiang, environmental credit has actually brought benefits to trustworthy enterprises.
Enterprises with good credit ratings can obtain active support and priority arrangements in various ecological and environmental protection licensing matters, special fund issuance, scientific and technological project establishment, and evaluation and award activities.
Southern Logistics is one of the beneficiaries.
In 2021, Southern Logistics plans to use a mining conveyor belt steel rope core X-ray flaw detection device at the tail of the 5# conveyor from Changxing Cement in Meishan Town to Xiaopu Town Wharf, which requires a radiation safety license.
After receiving the enterprise's application materials, the staff of Huzhou Ecological Environment Bureau conducted a credit check on the enterprise through the credit platform. The platform shows that the enterprise has a good credit rating and can enjoy the green channel for approval.
Therefore, the staff of Huzhou Ecological Environment Bureau completed the acceptance and review as quickly as possible, and the items originally promised to be handled within 8 working days were completed within 2 working days, saving 75% of the approval time.
It is worth mentioning that Zhejiang is also actively promoting a new model of cross-regional and cross-departmental environmental credit supervision.
Since 2020, the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment has taken the lead in jointly printing and distributing the "Memorandum of Cooperation in the Implementation of Credit Joint Rewards and Punishments in the Ecological Environment Field of the Yangtze River Delta Region (2020 Edition)" in cooperation with the credit departments of Zhejiang Province, Jiangsu Province, Anhui Province, and Shanghai Municipality in the Yangtze River Delta. Promote the integrated management of environmental protection credit in the Yangtze River Delta region.
In terms of promoting the sharing of credit information and mutual recognition of results, establish a mechanism for sharing and pushing environmental credit evaluation results in the Yangtze River Delta region. Based on the unified social credit code, environmental protection such as administrative licensing, administrative punishment, environmental credit evaluation results, and the results of serious untrustworthy lists will be integrated The credit information is pushed to the "Credit Yangtze River Delta" platform to realize the collection and sharing of credit information in the field of ecological environment.
Since 2020, three provinces and one city have announced a total of 264 seriously dishonest enterprises on the "Credit Yangtze River Delta" platform, providing support for cross-regional credit joint rewards and punishments in the field of ecological environment.
In the future, it will be inevitable to promote credit classification and classification supervision in the field of ecological and environmental protection, optimize the allocation of supervision resources based on credit risk, and improve the accuracy and effectiveness of supervision, which is also an important content specified in the "Opinions".
Xue Fang, deputy secretary-general of the Beijing Credit Society and a researcher at the Credit Legislation and Credit Evaluation Research Center of Capital Normal University, said that at present, my country has 150 million market entities and is the largest market entity in the world.
In the face of such a large number of market entities, the traditional supervision mechanism focusing on inspections has obviously been unable to meet the needs of development.
The promotion of credit classification and supervision in key areas such as ecological and environmental protection is to use highly developed digital technology and learn from the operation logic of the commercial rating mechanism to quantify and classify the ecological and environmental protection risk management indicators of enterprises, and accurately depict the "credit risk profile" of the enterprise. The regulatory authorities can take targeted regulatory measures according to the credit risk status of the enterprise.
For high-risk enterprises, high-risk areas, and high-risk issues, more regulatory resources can be allocated.
For low-risk companies, a more relaxed and flexible regulatory approach can be adopted.
As a result, precise supervision, key supervision, source supervision and credit supervision can be more effectively achieved.
(Source: Rule of Law Daily)