The core of the national environmental protection policy is to take preventive measures and strengthen environmental management to prevent or reduce environmental pollution and damage.
The main measures are to incorporate environmental protection into national economic and social development plans and annual plans to prevent and control environmental pollution and ecological damage during economic development; to improve environmental protection laws, regulations and rules so that environmental management develops along the track of legalization and standardization.
Improve environmental management institutions.
Environmental management agencies have been established by governments at the central, provincial, municipal and county levels, and these agencies exercise environmental management powers in accordance with the law.
Environmental protection work has made positive progress.
1. The significance of environmental protection: 1. Environmental protection is to use the theories and methods of environmental science to better utilize natural resources while deeply understanding the roots and hazards of pollution and damage to the environment, to protect the environment in a planned way, and to prevent environmental quality.
deterioration, control environmental pollution, promote the coordinated development of humans and the environment, improve the quality of human life, protect human health, and benefit future generations.
2. Maintaining ecological balance and protecting the environment are fundamental issues related to human survival and social development.
3. Improving the strength of environmental protection policies to better manage and respond to environmental emergencies is an urgent task at present.
2. Basic contents of environmental protection: 1. Natural environment.
In order to prevent the deterioration of the natural environment, we must protect the green mountains, green water, blue sky and sea.
This involves no illegal logging, no random discharge, no overgrazing, no excessive land reclamation, no over-exploitation of natural resources, no destroying the ecological balance of nature, etc.
2. Earth creatures.
Including the preservation of species, the conservation of plant vegetation, the return of animals, the maintenance of biological diversity, the rational and prudent use of genetically modified organisms, the special protection of endangered species, the recovery of extinct species, the expansion of habitats, and the harmony between humans and organisms**
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3. Human environment.
Make the environment more suitable for human work and labor needs.
This involves all aspects of people's clothing, food, housing, transportation, and play, which must comply with scientific, hygienic, healthy, and green requirements.
Legal basis: Article 1,229 of the "People's Republic of China and Civil Code" If the infringer causes damage to others by polluting the environment or destroying the ecology, the infringer shall bear tort liability.
Article 1,232 If an infringer violates legal provisions and intentionally pollutes the environment or damages the ecology, causing serious consequences, the infringed party shall have the right to request corresponding punitive damages.
Article 1,233 If the environment is polluted or the ecology is damaged due to the fault of a third party, the infringed party may request compensation from the infringer or the third party.
After the infringer makes compensation, he has the right to seek compensation from the third party.