Green mining policy for environmental protection and sustainable development

Abstract

Environmental protection is an inevitable choice for the sustainable development of human society. According to EPA data, 21% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from the industrial areas. The mining is one of the main source of greenhouse gas emissions. To achieve sustainable economic development and ecological environmental protection, the miningindustry must be green. The developed countries have taken policies related to green mining since the 1970s and have already achieved great results. At present, the developing countries such as China have also adopted a series of various legal and institutional measures related to the mining, but it is still not perfect compared with the developed countries, and there are still serious environmental pollution problems.Therefore, this paper will discuss the causes of the environmental problems in mining and the green mining policies of some developed countries, and analyze the current situation of China's mining industry. Finally, this paper proposed a green mining policy model for in developing countries such as China for environmental protection and sustainable development.