Legal Research on Environmental Protection Responsibilities of Multinational Enterprises
From the Perspective of Comparative Law
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.231How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- environmental protection responsibilities; multinational enterprises; British legislations
- Abstract
Driven by the wave of economic globalization, some multinational corporations are transferring their industries to China to expand their global market and increase profits, which brings economic benefit growth to themselves and gives rise to huge and irreversible pollution to China’s environment. Although China has established a preliminary environmental protection legal system, there are still some loopholes in these systems, which provide an opportunity for multinational enterprises to evade environmental protection, thus urgently needing to be repaired by the Chinese government. As one of the most developed countries in terms of environmental protection legal system, Britain’s various environmental protection measures are well worth learning for China. Therefore, taking the environmental protection responsibility of MNEs as the research object, this paper will compare China’s standards of environmental protection, management systems, and adjustment methods for multinational enterprises with Britain, thus analyzing the existing problems in China’s environmental protection supervision system. Combined with relevant environmental pollution cases that MNEs cause, this paper also puts forward some suggestions on how to better supervise the environmental pollution behaviors of multinational corporations from three aspects: legal system, legislative techniques, publicity, and education.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Hanyu Xuan PY - 2021 DA - 2021/12/24 TI - Legal Research on Environmental Protection Responsibilities of Multinational Enterprises BT - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1364 EP - 1369 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.231 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.231 ID - Xuan2021 ER -