Recently, the second issue of volume 1 of Chinese Journal of Environmental Law (abbreviated as "CJEL" in English, ISSN 2468-6034) was jointly published by RIEL and the international first-rate academic publisher Brill.

In the second issue, four research papers were published: "Role of the South in the Development of International Environmental Law", "A Legal Obligation to Restore Wetlands by Environmental Water Allocations," "Public Interest Environmental Litigation in China," "Biodiversity Conservation of the "Three Pole: Potential Lessons from the Mekong River Basin"; two studies "UN Environment and Environmental Law in the Asia Pacific" "Research on Environmental Justice in China: Limitations and Possibilities" and a book review "Charting the Water Regulatory Future." Issues, Challenges and Directions, edited by Julien Chaisse”.

The "Chinese Journal of Environmental Law" is the first academic journal of China's environmental law community. It was formally published in 2017. Professor Qin Tianbao and Professor Ben Boer are co-editors. The Chinese Journal of Environmental Law aims to internationalize, compare, and diversify environmental laws and policies in various countries, focusing on biodiversity law, climate change law, energy law, environmental assessment law, marine environmental law, and natural resources law, planning law, pollution prevention and control law, environmental court, and other areas of system construction, compliance and enforcement issues.