The two sessions look at the "law"丨Judicial escort for a beautiful China
"Legal obligations must be fulfilled, and 'abandoning wind and light' is not feasible. On March 8, Zhang Jun, President of the Supreme People's Court, mentioned in his report at the second session of the 14th National People's Congress that in 2023, courts across the country will conclude 232,000 environmental resource cases, a year-on-year decrease of 5.8%, including more than 5,300 cases involving environmental pollution, a year-on-year decrease of 11.5%, and the concept of harmonious coexistence between man and nature is more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Building a beautiful home on earth is the common dream of mankind. General Secretary Xi Jinping has put forward a series of new ideas, new ideas and new strategies for the construction of ecological civilization and ecological environmental protection, forming Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, taking the construction of ecological civilization as a long-term plan related to the well-being of the people and the future of the nation, insisting on protection first and green development, and leaving a beautiful home with blue sky, green ground and clear water for future generations. The people's courts thoroughly implement Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, and Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and persist in establishing the concepts of active justice, green development, systematic protection, the strictest rule of law, and coordinated governance, focusing on "justice and efficiency" Theme, give full play to the role of environmental resources adjudication functions, adhere to the strictest system and the strictest rule of law to protect the ecological environment, fairly and efficiently try all kinds of environmental resources cases in accordance with the law, ensure that the people fully enjoy a high-quality ecological environment through judicial adjudication, and make greater efforts to support high-quality development and better serve Chinese-style modernization.
Insist that the environment has a price and that damage is responsible. People's courts at all levels hear cases involving environmental pollution in accordance with the law, helping to control heavily polluted weather and urban black and odorous water bodies, improving the urban and rural living environment, and preventing and controlling environmental pollution risks, and promoting the simultaneous improvement of the "ecological value" of blue sky, clear water and pure land and the "happiness index" of people's lives.
Persist in serving the overall situation, and focus on accelerating the green and low-carbon transformation of the development mode. Hear cases involving natural resources in accordance with the law, help optimize the industrial energy structure, save and intensively utilize resources, guide enterprises to carry out compliance rectification and green production technology transformation, and promote the formation of green and low-carbon production methods and lifestyles, so as to achieve the good effect of "handling a case, saving an enterprise, and driving an industry".
Keeping in mind the greatness of the country, we will protect the sustainable development of the Chinese nation with justice. The people's yearning for a better life is the goal and task of the people's courts to always serve and guarantee. People's courts at all levels hear cases involving biological resources and ecosystems in accordance with law, assisting in the protection and restoration of ecosystems, the conservation of biodiversity, the prevention and control of the invasion of alien species, and the promotion of integrated protection and systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands and sands.
Focus on addressing climate change, and actively and steadily promote carbon peak and carbon neutrality. The Supreme People's Court has issued guiding opinions on serving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, improving green and low-carbon policies and the carbon emission market trading system, and promoting economic and social development and people's lives to reduce the "carbon content".
The construction of ecological civilization is a national strategy, and the contribution of ecological environmental protection is in the present and the future generations, and the people's courts have an unshirkable responsibility and will continue to plan and coordinate the promotion of high-level economic development and high-quality protection of the ecological environment with a higher position, a broader vision and greater efforts, and write a new chapter in the judicial protection of ecological civilization in the new era.
