Environmental Auditing: An Informationized Regulatory Tool of Carbon Emission Reduction

Explore the diversity of carbon reduction instruments is significance for fulfill of scientific outlook on development, and practice of Kyoto Protocol and Copenhagen Treaty, as well as the realization of economic and environmental sustainability. Representative of the environmental audit of information technology tools for the implementation of cost and time efficiency advantages, is considered for the next generation of management tools, information-based instrument and the traditional command-and-control instrument, market-based instrument constitute the current environmental regulation of the three main approach, the paper analyzes the research status and perspectives of carbon reduction regulation instruments, particularly demonstrates the motivation, contents, methods and application of environmental auditing, on this basis, put forward several recommendations for China's environmental auditing future development in order to its better play in energy conservation and emission reduction.