Jiangsu： Constructing environmental credit evaluation system forces enterprises to assume environmental responsibility.
The picture shows the environmental monitoring law enforcement personnel checking the operation of enterprise pollution prevention facilities on the spot.
□ Our reporter Ding Guofeng
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At present, in Jiangsu, the environmental credit rating is related to the enterprise’s EIA approval, credit financing, water price and electricity price … … For nearly 30 thousand key pollution source enterprises in the province, "environmental credit" is becoming more and more important, and it can be turned into "real money".
Once it gets a "bad review" in the environmental credit rating, enterprises will face a situation that is not conducive to development, such as sewage treatment fees and electricity price increases, and restrictions on loans. Under what circumstances will enterprises be subject to sewage treatment fees and electricity price increases? How long will it last? To this end, the "Legal Daily" reporter recently embarked on a journey of solving puzzles with this series of questions.
"Differentiation" makes emission reduction more effective
As early as 2009, Nantong, Jiangsu Province began to explore the implementation of differentiated sewage treatment fee policy.
"Green enterprises that achieve zero emissions through reclaimed water reuse are exempt from sewage treatment fees; For enterprises with red and black environmental credit ratings, 0.6 yuan and 1 yuan sewage treatment fees will be added per ton on the basis of the existing sewage treatment fees. " Liu Huajun, director of the Regulations Department of Nantong Environmental Protection Bureau, told the reporter of Legal Daily.
"Since the next month after the environmental protection department announced the rating results of corporate environmental behavior in the previous year, ‘ Red ’ ‘ Black ’ Grade enterprises began to implement differentiated sewage treatment fees and pay additional fees for a period of one year. When the execution unit pays the surcharge for one year, the environmental behavior rating of the enterprise reaches ‘ Yellow ’ ‘ Blue ’ Or ‘ Green ’ Level, you can stop execution. " Liu Huajun added.
The reporter learned that at present, many districts and cities such as Nanjing, Wuxi and Nantong have implemented differentiated sewage treatment fee policies. The charging standard of sewage treatment fee for enterprises rated as "red" is not less than 0.6 yuan/m3, and the charging standard of sewage treatment fee for enterprises rated as "black" and rated as "red" for more than two consecutive times is not less than 1 yuan/m3.
"In addition to the implementation of the differentiated sewage treatment fee policy, we have also tried out the differentiated electricity price policy. The electricity price is charged by the provincial power grid enterprises according to the provincial price and the list of enterprises and electricity price standards announced by the competent authorities of the industry, according to the copied electricity." The relevant person in charge of the Regulations Department of Jiangsu Provincial Environmental Protection Department said.
"How is the specific electricity bill calculated?" The reporter asked.
"Take Nantong as an example. Enterprises with red and black environmental credit ratings will add 0.05 yuan and 0.1 yuan electricity fee to the existing electricity fee." The person in charge told the reporter.
According to statistics, since 2017, Jiangsu has charged 110 million yuan for differential electricity prices for "red and black enterprises".
Constructing environmental protection credit evaluation system
In 2013, the Environmental Protection Department of Jiangsu Province took the lead in formulating and promulgating the Evaluation Criteria and Methods for Environmental Credit of Enterprises in Jiangsu Province, which clarified the evaluation principles, index system and grading of environmental credit of enterprises. At present, Jiangsu is further optimizing and adjusting the evaluation standard and index system.
The reporter learned that the current environmental credit evaluation indicators in Jiangsu are composed of 21 items in three categories: pollution prevention indicators, environmental management indicators and social impact indicators. Among them, only pollution prevention indicators include six small items: "online automatic monitoring of pollution sources, supervisory monitoring of pollution sources, comparison monitoring of automatic monitoring equipment of pollution sources and data validity audit, total amount control, safe utilization and disposal of hazardous wastes, and utilization and disposal of solid wastes". From good to bad, the evaluation results of corporate environmental credit are identified in five colors: green, blue, yellow, red and black.
At the same time, the Jiangsu Provincial Environmental Protection Department has also established a dynamic management mechanism for corporate environmental credit, which is regularly adjusted and repaired to reflect changes in corporate environmental credit in a timely manner. Build a "one enterprise, one file" dynamic information management system covering the whole province, and use environmental big data analysis technology to comprehensively collect environmental credit information of polluting enterprises.
Last year, the three-level environmental protection departments of cities and counties in Jiangsu Province jointly organized 29,975 pollution source enterprises to participate in environmental credit evaluation, an increase of nearly 5,000 over the previous year.
In July last year, Jiangsu Provincial Environmental Protection Department announced the environmental credit evaluation results of 1064 state-controlled key enterprises in the province, including 414 green enterprises and 18 black enterprises, which greatly improved the efficiency of environmental supervision.
Environmental credit becomes intangible assets.
"By carrying out the construction of environmental credit system, pollution source enterprises will be included in this system, and an incentive mechanism for environmental trustworthiness and disciplinary mechanism for dishonesty will be established, so that environmental credit will become the intangible assets of enterprises, expand the survival and development space for green enterprises, and make untrustworthy enterprises lose their trust and be subject to everywhere." The relevant person in charge of the Regulations Department of Jiangsu Provincial Environmental Protection Department told the reporter.
In April this year, 30 departments including Jiangsu Provincial Environmental Protection Department, Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Nanjing Branch of China People’s Bank, and Provincial Department of Finance signed a memorandum of cooperation on joint punishment of untrustworthy production and business units and their relevant personnel in the environmental protection field.
"Disciplinary measures will be taken against enterprises rated as red and black. Such as restricting market access, administrative licensing or financing behavior, stop enjoying various preferential policies, and stop implementing relevant financial support. " The person in charge said that enterprises rated as green can enjoy incentives such as giving priority to environmental protection administrative licenses and suggesting financial institutions to give preferential loan interest rates.
In addition, Jiangsu has also established an interconnection and sharing mechanism for untrustworthy information, and incorporated the information of untrustworthy production and business units into the basic database of enterprise credit information and the provincial public credit information system, and announced it to the public.
At present, Jiangsu Provincial Environmental Protection Department, together with the Provincial Credit Office and the Banking Regulatory Bureau, has established an information sharing system for corporate environmental credit, which promotes banks to regard corporate environmental credit as an important basis for pre-lending approval and post-lending supervision, and rewards the excellent and punishes the poor.
It is with this sharing mechanism that the whole credit process has a "reminder". In July, 2013, China Guangfa Bank Wuxi Branch cooperated with a certain material company in Yixing City, and loaned it 10 million yuan, and monitored its real time according to the mechanism, and adjusted its credit strategy according to its credit changes.
After that, in 2013, the company was rated as an excellent enterprise with green environmental protection credit, and was rated as a credit strategy support category by the bank. In 2014, the company was rated as a good blue environmental credit enterprise, and the bank adjusted its credit strategy to maintenance. In 2015, the company was rated as red in the annual environmental credit evaluation, and the bank adjusted its credit strategy to control compression and immediately negotiated. In September 2016, the company returned the principal of 9.77 million yuan in advance, ensuring the safety of bank credit assets.
"Financial institutions pay attention to and track the environmental credit rating of enterprises in a timely manner through the sharing mechanism, and adjust the corporate credit strategy at any time, which reduces the credit risk, avoids economic losses and safeguards comprehensive interests." The person in charge of the Regulations Department of Jiangsu Provincial Environmental Protection Department said.
By the end of last year, the loan balance of enterprises participating in environmental credit evaluation in Jiangsu was 758.9 billion yuan. Among them, the loan balance of enterprises with excellent (green) and good (blue) credit evaluation was 713.7 billion yuan, accounting for 94% of the loan balance of all rated enterprises; The balance of loans to enterprises with poor (red) and poor (black) environmental credit was 12.2 billion yuan, accounting for only 1.6% of the balance, which effectively promoted the green development of enterprises and built the operation mechanism of green finance.
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Effectively solve the problem of low illegal cost
Throughout the history of world development, protecting the ecological environment means protecting productive forces, and improving the ecological environment means developing productive forces. It is "green development" to develop both green mountains and green hills and Jinshan Yinshan.
In the first half of this year, Jiangsu’s GDP exceeded 4 trillion yuan, ranking second in the country. Jiangsu, which took the lead in development, also took the lead in encountering environmental problems. At present, Jiangsu’s construction of environmental credit evaluation system with the "five-color list" as the core aims to solve the unreasonable situation of "low illegal cost" in the environmental protection field, so that enterprises have a "roadblock" when they commit environmental violations. Environmental credit rating is related to the enterprise’s environmental assessment approval, credit financing, water price and electricity price, which is equivalent to "tightening" the enterprise.
Through a series of measures, Jiangsu Environmental Protection Department forced enterprises to take the responsibility of environmental protection from passive to active, and reduced the possible environmental pollution caused by all aspects of production activities through technological innovation. At the same time, by reducing energy consumption, energy conservation and emission reduction, the production cost of enterprises was reduced, and the two-way win-win situation of environmental protection and enterprise development was realized, making "green development" an "engine" for enterprises to move forward further.