In March, China’s National People’s Congress passed sweeping reforms to streamline environmental governance in order to more rapidly mitigate China\’s crushing air, water, and soil pollution. CEF has invited three speakers to unpack the drivers and impacts of this major reform in China.

Liu Zhuoshi (Environmental Law Institute) will detail how legal and regulatory authorities around pollution and climate issues are changing. Hu Tao (WWF – U.S.) will explore how the new MEE could act more holistically to manage complex pollution issues, like a better coordination on the joint management of air pollution and carbon emission regulations. Liu Shuang (Energy Foundation China) will reflect on the implication of China’s recent governance reforms on efforts to create a national carbon emissions trading systems and what other policies and institutional changes are needed to make it succeed.