Addressing climate change is related to the sustainable development of the Chinese nation and the future and destiny of mankind. The recently released white paper “China’s Policies and Actions to Address Climate Change” fully shared China’s practice and experience in addressing climate change, which will help the international community to have a more comprehensive understanding of China’s tremendous efforts and important contributions in addressing climate change. .
As the world’s largest developing country, China has overcome its own economic and social difficulties and has actively formulated and implemented a series of strategies, regulations, Policies, standards and actions. Especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the guidance of Xi Jinping’s thoughts on ecological civilization, the new development concept has been thoroughly implemented, and new progress has been made in related work. The white paper shows that China’s carbon emission intensity in 2020 will be reduced by 18.8% compared to 2015 and 48.4% lower than in 2005. It has exceeded the goal of reducing 40% to 45% by 2020 promised to the international community, basically reversing the rapid growth of carbon dioxide emissions. Situation. In 2020, China’s non-fossil energy accounted for 15.9% of energy consumption, an increase of 8.5 percentage points from 2005. Reliance on coal consumption has dropped significantly, and energy structure optimization has achieved significant results. In addition, China has built a carbon market with the largest global coverage of greenhouse gas emissions.
Responding to climate change is not only the inherent requirement of our country’s sustainable development, but also the international obligation of a responsible major country. This is not what others want us to do, but we do it ourselves. . As the largest developing country with a population of more than 1.4 billion, it not only has to face a series of arduous tasks such as economic development, improvement of people’s livelihood, pollution control, ecological protection, etc., but also to achieve the goal of tackling climate change. China regards tackling climate change as promoting ecological An important starting point for the construction of civilization and the realization of high-quality development.
China firmly establishes a sense of community, unswervingly implements the new development concept, adheres to the people as the center, vigorously promotes carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and promotes pollution reduction and carbon reduction synergy Increase efficiency and form a new concept of tackling climate change. Continuously improve the response to climate change, firmly follow the path of green and low-carbon development, increase the control of greenhouse gas emissions, give full play to the role of market mechanisms, enhance the ability to adapt to climate change, continue to improve the level of support for climate change, and develop a line that suits its own national conditions. Road to emission reduction. Promoting historical changes in response to climate change, the synergy of economic development and pollution reduction and carbon reduction has been highlighted, the energy production and consumption revolution has achieved remarkable results, the low-carbon industry has provided new momentum for green development, the carbon sink capacity of the ecosystem has been significantly improved, and the green and low-carbon Life has become a new trend, and Chinese wisdom has provided Chinese solutions for global climate governance.
Climate change is related to people’s well-being and the future of mankind, and coping with climate changeIt requires ambition and determination. China has made a commitment to the international community to “strive to reach the peak of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, and strive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060”. This means that China will complete the world’s highest reduction in carbon emissions intensity, using the shortest reduction in global history. Time to achieve from carbon peak to carbon neutral. Following a series of policies such as the “Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on the Complete, Accurate and Comprehensive Implementation of the New Development Concept to Do a Good Job in Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality”, the “Carbon Peaking Action Plan by 2030”, and “Opinions on Promoting the Green Development of Urban and Rural Construction”. Documents have been issued one after another, and China is implementing the achievement of the “dual carbon” goal into every specific action.
The earth is the common and only home of mankind, and responding to climate change is the common cause of all mankind. As the 26th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is about to convene, we hope to work with the international community to actively respond to climate change with unprecedented ambitions and actions, and to seek a harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and make the earth Homeland is better.