Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)

Legal Research on Environmental Protection Responsibilities of Multinational Enterprises

From the Perspective of Comparative Law

Authors
Hanyu Xuan1, *
1Hohai University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
*Corresponding author. Email: 1918010215@hhu.edu.cn
Corresponding Author
Hanyu Xuan
Available Online 24 December 2021.
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
24 December 2021
ISBN
978-94-6239-495-7
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211220.231How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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