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Cixi gives green insurance a try among enterprises
Time: 2021- 01- 06 09: 20 Browse: 信息来源: 慈溪市人民政府网站

Lately, enterprises, including the Cixi Kandun Electroplating Factory, the Cixi Chailuo Electroplating Co., Ltd., and the Zhejiang Hangzhou Bay Textile Co., Ltd., signed green insurance contracts one after another, manifesting that insurance institutions and third-party service providers will be responsible for compensating direct economic losses caused by environmental pollution accidents during the period when the insurance is valid according to the risk sharing mechanism and terms of the insurance contract.

With the development of social industrialization, environmental pollution is becoming more and more serious, and environmental problems are getting more and more attention. In order to further promote the construction of ecological civilization, make full use of social service force, and explore ways for market governance of the financial service environment, the Cixi Branch of Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment has made great efforts to build a favorable cycling environmental governance system of “enterprise-insurance company-service institutions” and vigorously promote high-quality green development of enterprises by providing insurances for green ecological environment development since 2020.

The green insurance, also known as the environmental pollution liability insurance, is the insurance subject to the compensation liability of the company for the damage to the third party caused by pollution accidents of the company. Since 2020, on the basis of environmental liability insurance, the Cixi Branch of Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment has taken service as a precondition, conducted environmental protection examination and risk assessment on enterprises through third-party environmental protection service agencies, and let enterprises choose suitable insurance schemes for themselves. At the same time, the third-party environmental protection service agencies regularly provide guidance for enterprises to standardize daily management, timely help solve technical problems, and effectively reduce the environmental management risk of enterprises during the insurance period. The insurance company and the third party environmental protection service agencies shall compensate for direct economic losses caused by the environmental pollution accidents of the insured enterprises due to inadequate third-party services.

“The effective use of this insurance can promote enterprises to strengthen environmental risk management, reduce the occurrence of pollution accidents, quickly respond to pollution accidents, timely compensate and effectively protect the rights and interests of victims.” A representative of the Cixi Branch of Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment said. While providing the environmental pollution liability insurance service, “green insurance” is adopted to prevent the hidden danger of “ecological bomb” in the production process of enterprises from being exploded. Through the introduction of third-party environmental protection service agencies, the environmental liability insurance has been introduced into the whole process, which not only plays a positive after-event compensation role, but also carries out risk assessment in advance to check if there’re any hidden dangers, and checking will be frequently carried out to see if there are new potential risks during the insurance period.

As is introduced, Cixi is now promoting the green insurances for enterprises in fields of the chemical industry, nonferrous metal mining and selection and arsenic product manufacturing with high pollution risks. Till now, 6 enterprises in Cixi have signed green insurance contracts. The insurance will be introduced to more enterprises to further improve the coverage of the environmental liability insurance.

 

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