Abstract: As a kind of special economic subject, the government shoulders unavoidable environmental ethical responsibilities. The so-called environmental ethical responsibilities refer to the moral responsibilities that the government mustundertake for the cause of environmental protection. They find their expressionsin the environmental policies, environmental laws, environmental plans and environmental standards the government stipulates and tries to carry out. In order to fulfill the task of environmental protection effectively, we should resort toa mechanism of environmental protection, which is called “the mechanism with the government as the leading factor while the market goes as the complementary one”.

Key words: environmental ethical responsibility, form of expression, mechanism of environmental protection

摘要： 作为一种特殊经济主体,政府承担着必不可少的环境伦理责任。政府的环境伦理责任是指政府在参与社会经济活动过程中应该为环境保护事业承担的道德责任,它主要是通过政府制定和推行环境政策、法规、规划、标准的情况得到体现的。为了有效地开展环境保护工作,我们应该实行“政府为主,市场为辅”的环保机制。

关键词: 环境伦理责任, 表现形式, 环保机制