| 英文摘要 |
This project, commissioned by the Office of Sustainable Development, Environmental Protection Administration (EPA), focused on international environmental information collection and trend analysis. The main tasks of this project consisted of the following: (1) to collect, select, and translate environmental news and policies and periodically provide this information to the EPA to aid its policy implementation; (2) to analyze trends in international environmental protection regulations and policies, and provide this analysis to the EPA to aid its policy formation. The project duration is 11 months. Regarding the first task, through December 31, 2015, 704 international environmental news articles were selected and collected. The highlights of the news were translated and distributed to the subscribers. There were 48 issues of international environmental weekly news edited and published. A total of 38 countries or regional political entities are covered in this news. The majority of the news collected by this project (54%) originated from the US and EU. As to news classification, news about climate change, energy saving and carbon reduction takes up the highest percentage (18%). News about waste management takes up the second highest percentage (15%); air quality protection, water resource and quality protection and environmental hygiene and toxic management each takes up 12%; and soil and groundwater remediation and integrated environmental policy each takes up 8%. Other categories such as forest protection and nature conservation take up 7%. Regarding the second task, 4 issues of quarterly analytical reports on international environmental protection trends were published. There were 5 special topic reports, with the topics selected and assigned by the EPA, completed and provided. In this final report, a yearly news trend analysis was also performed for the entire duration of this project. As of the present, all tasks required by this project were accomplished on schedule.
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