Internationalization of environmental management: directions and conditions of development (case of the People's Republic of China)

Abstract

The problems of the state environmental processes managing have become international in nature in the last decade due to the increasing importance of the environmental paradigm in the general context of analyzing the consequences of rapid economic growth, the need to transition to a "green" and low-carbon economy and ensure the quality of residents’ life. The internationalization of environmental process management involves global trends, indicators, management technologies and their synchronization with internal (national) processes. Based on a comparative analysis of the key macroeconomic and environmental indicators of China and the United States, the authors identify the problems that have arisen in the Chinese environmental management practice and propose directions and forms for improving environmental management based on its internationalization. It was determined that the priority measures for the Chinese government are: 1) the concentration of the national environmental management system at the primary territorial management link level - the municipality; 2) use existing cooperation platforms to strengthen international exchange and cooperation between the Chinese government and other countries on environmental management issues; 3) training and retraining of personnel taking into account the fact that modern international systems stimulate technologies for unifying the collection and processing of environmental data; 4) the need to optimize the budget expenditures structure and the development of "green finance" technologies; 5) basing the environmental management system of the territory on the control of industrial and non-industrial pollution. The conclusion of the authors about the need for significant detail in the disclosure of environmental pollution information by enterprises is important. The authors believe that in the process of internationalization and improvement of China's environmental management, the existing information platforms of international cooperation should be more actively used in order to strengthen international exchange and cooperation. It is also important to take into account that modern information systems stimulate technologies for unifying the collection and processing of environmental data.