Ecological Poverty Measurement and Eco-Purchase System Design (5)

As is indicated by the Tinbergen’s Rule, for climate poverty, China needs to take an active part in global emission reduction plan, and proposes financing the management of ecologically sensitive areas that influences Chinese climate changes and global ecoengineering construction with international transfer payment. Water poverty results directly from economic imbalance and unequal distribution, the solution for which involves market mechanism. We should “marketize poverty reduction and make it a public cause” and improve the ecological, production and living conditions of poor areas, getting rid of the vicious circle that the poorer the area is, the worse ecological environment gets. For geological poverty, we should set up more charitable foundations, funds raised from which should be partly used to directly aid disaster stricken population, and partly be used to produce ecological goods. For biological poverty, we should strengthen the intersectoral working mechanism, to make up the damages caused by institutional “loopholes” and absence and try our best to prevent and control poverty of this kind.

Notes:
1.National Plan for Earthquake Prevention and Disaster Relief (2006-2020)

2.Hu Angang: “Addressing the Challenge of Climate Change, Eliminating Population in Climate Poverty”. “Climate Change and Poverty: A Case Study on China” (April 27, 2009), a review drawn by Hongkong Oxfam, Greenpeace China, and Institute of Agricultural Environment and Sustainable Development, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences on May 12, 2009.

3.Hu Angang: “Addressing the Challenge of Climate Change, Eliminating Population in Climate Poverty”. Report on National Conditions, Volume 17, 2009.

4.China Statistical Yearbook on Environment 2007

5.China Statistical Yearbook on Animal Husbandry 2007

6.China Statistical Yearbook on Environment 2008

7.China Statistical Yearbook on Animal Husbandry 2008

8.One of the Reports on World Bank TCC5 Qinghai subproject: “General Report on Poverty Reduction and Development Strategy of Qinghai Province Research”, by World Bank TCC Qinghai Subproject Administration Office, June 2009.