Guiding Case No. 174: China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation v. Yalong River Hydropower Development Co., Ltd.
When existing evidence and scientific analysis show that a project may damage endangered-plant habitat and thereby harm the public ecological interest, courts may order preventive measures and require the risk to be incorporated into the environmental impact assessment.
Holding
When existing evidence and scientific analysis show that a project may damage endangered-plant habitat and thereby harm the public ecological interest, courts may order preventive measures and require the risk to be incorporated into the environmental impact assessment.
Issues
potential ecological riskprotection of endangered plantspreventive relief and EIA supplementation