In recent years,the fundamental causes of environmental group events in China are the alienations of environmental policy decision caused by the inadequacies of public participation.Consultative democracy,which emphasizes the equal participation of citizens,the formation of environmental decision making based on rational negotiation,has both enhanced mutual trust between the government and the people and possessed the natural advantage in the environmental group events.The consultative democracy is the way to prevent environmental group events and needs to push the transformation of the government from “domination” to “governance”,strengthen the construction of consultation platform,disclose the environmental information and cultivate and guide environmental protection organizations to be actively involved in negotiation.