P506602 - Draft Environmental and Social Systems Assessment (ESSA) - Low Carbon City Program (English)

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Table of Contents

• Contents 2
• Abbreviations and Acronyms 4
• 1. Introduction 5
• 1.1 Objectives and Tasks of the ESSA 5
• 1.2 Procedures and Methodologies of the ESSA 5
• 2. Program Description 7
• 2.1 Program Background 7
• 2.2 Government Program 7
• 2.3 The PforR Scope 8
• 2.4 Institutional arrangement and experience 10
• 3. ES Impact and Risk Assessment 12
• 3.1 ES Exclusion 12
• 3.2 Potential ES Impacts 13
• 3.2.1 ES Benefits 13
• 3.2.2 Adverse ES Impacts 13
• 3.2.3 Cumulative ES Impacts 17
• 3.3 ES Risk Rating 17
• 3.3.1 Potential ES impacts 18
• 3.3.2 ES contextual risks 18
• 3.3.3 Institutional capacity and complexity risks 18
• 3.3.4 Political and reputational risks 19
• 4. Environmental Management System Assessment 20
• 4.1 General Principles 20
• 4.2 EIA and Follow-up Management System 21
• 4.3 Pollution Control System 27
• 4.3.1 Management of construction dust noise and solid waste 27
• 4.3.2 Soil pollution management on construction land 31
• 4.3.3 Prevention and control of other pollutions 35
• 4.4 Ecological Protection System and Cultural Relics Protection System 38
• 4.4.1 Ecological protection system 38
• 4.4.2 Cultural relics protection system 39
• 4.5 Health and Safety Management System 40
• 4.6 Consistency with the WBs Core Principles 44
• 5. Social Management System Assessment 46
• 5.1 General Principle 46
• 5.2 Sustainable social risk management 47
• 5.3 Land use and involuntary resettlement 52
• 5.4 Labor Rights and Protection 60
• 5.5 Information Disclosure and Public participation 63
• 6. Stakeholder Engagement and Grievance Redress Mechanisms 68
• 6.1 Stakeholder Engagement 68
• 6.1.1 Initial Engagement Activities 68
• 6.1.2 Public Consultation on the ESSA Report 68
• 6.2 Grievance Redress Mechanisms 69
• 7. Conclusions Recommendations and Action Plans 70
• 7.1 Conclusions 70
• 7.2 Recommendations 71
• 7.3 Program Action Plan 71
• 8. Implementation Arragement and Monitoring 74
• 8.1 The Borrower 74
• 8.2 The World Bank 74
• Appendix 1 Boundary of Government Programs and the PforR 76
• Appendix 2 Assessment of ES RisksImpacts of the PforR Activities 79
• Appendix 3 Comparison with the Bank PforR Policy and Directive 82
• Appendix 4 Stakeholder Identification and Analysis 93
• Appendix 5 Stakeholder Engagement Activities 95
• Appendix 6 Feedback from Draft ESSA Consultation 96
• Appendix 7 Field Visit Records 99
• Appendix 8 Generic ES Mitigation Measures 102
• Appendix 9 Record of Community Leaders and Villagers Dialogue with the Project 106