Persist in green and low-carbon development to build a clean and beautiful world (shared destiny)
At the general debate of the 75th United Nations General Assembly last year, President Xi Jinping officially announced: “China will increase its nationally determined contribution, adopt more powerful policies and measures, and strive to reach the peak of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, and strive for 2060. To achieve carbon neutrality before.” Recently, 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” and the “Carbon Peaking Action Plan by 2030” were issued to ensure the realization of carbon on schedule. Dafeng and carbon neutral make full deployment. China’s consistent belief in promoting green, low-carbon transformation and high-quality development and unswerving actions have injected strong impetus into the global realization of the goals of the Paris Agreement in response to climate change, and promoted the building of a clean and beautiful world.
“China has set a good example on the road to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”
Faced with the challenge of climate change, mankind shares a common destiny. The new crown pneumonia epidemic has cast a shadow on global development, and the promotion of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is facing greater challenges.
“China will strive to achieve carbon peaks by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. This requires hard work, but we will do our best.” On September 21, President Xi Jinping gave a general meeting at the 76th United Nations General Assembly. An important speech was delivered at the sexual debate and firmly reiterated the “dual carbon” goal, which greatly boosted confidence in global climate governance.
China’s commitment to achieve the time from carbon peak to carbon neutrality is far shorter than the time taken by developed countries. This means that China, as the world’s largest developing country, will complete the world’s highest reduction in carbon emission intensity, the shortest in global history. Time from carbon peak to carbon neutrality. Standing at the height of the future and destiny of all mankind, President Xi Jinping continues to put forward new measures to implement China’s nationally determined contributions and contribute Chinese solutions to global climate governance——
“China will strengthen the construction of ecological civilization, accelerate the adjustment and optimization of the industrial structure and energy structure, and advocate a green and low-carbon production and lifestyle.”
“China will strictly control coal power projects, strictly control the growth of coal consumption during the ’14th Five-Year Plan’ period, and gradually reduce it during the ’15th Five-Year Plan’ period.”
“In order to promote the achievement of carbon peak and carbon neutral goals, China will successively release key areas and industries carbon peak implementation plans and a series of support and safeguard measures, and build a carbon peak and carbon neutral ‘1+N’ policy system. “
From top-level design, institutional arrangements to specific measures, China has launched a powerful action as a major country: clearly including “carbon emissions peaking with stability and decline” in the “14th Five-Year Plan” and the 2035 long-term goal outline, and “doing “Good carbon peaking and carbon neutrality work” is listed as one of the key tasks in 2021. Carbon peaking and carbon neutrality will be included in the overall layout of ecological civilization construction. The national carbon market has been online for trading, and the local version of the carbon peaking roadmap is accelerating As soon as it is released, the financial system has fully launched a green upgrade…
“China has set a good example on the road to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.” Inge Anderson, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme, believes that China has announced that it will strive to achieve carbon peaks by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. The development of specific action plans and the launch of the National Green Development Fund to support the green transformation and upgrading of the industry are all commendable measures. Anderson said: “I expect more countries to show ambition and take action like China.”
The 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) of the “United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change” is about to open in Glasgow, UK. On October 28, China formally submitted to the Convention Secretariat the “China’s Implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions and New Goals and New Measures” and “China’s Long-term Greenhouse Gas Low-Emission Development Strategy in the Middle of This Century”, expounding China’s basic position on global climate governance, Contributions made and consideration of further promotion of international cooperation.
“China has continuously achieved new results in promoting the economic and social green and low-carbon transformation and development. Through a clear road map and action plan, China is showing the world its ambition to achieve climate goals.” Pat, Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Lixia Espinosa said.
“When you personally experience the speed of innovation in this land, you will definitely believe that China is capable of realizing this vision.”
All venues of the Beijing Winter Olympics introduced clean and green electricity, the ice venues widely used advanced environmentally friendly refrigerants, and the Yanqing and Zhangjiakou competition areas carried out ecological restoration, striving to achieve the carbon neutral goal of the Winter Olympics; Goldwind Technology created renewable energy carbon in Beijing Yizhuang Zhonghe Smart Park, through spontaneous use of green electricity and energy efficiency, establishes a green smart park ecosystem; Tianjin Port’s “Smart Zero Carbon” wharf is officially put into operation, and the wharf adopts clean energy, and the efficiency of the intelligent horizontal transportation system has increased by about 20%. , Equipment and buildings achieve low energy consumption in all aspects…
Driven by the “dual carbon” goal, a green and low-carbon transition has become common practice in China.
Khalid Akram, executive director of the Pakistan Global Strategic Research Center, said that China promotes sustainable development and continues to make progress in the energy transition. During the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, China has accelerated its low-carbon actions and green transformation, which will serve as a model for other countries in responding to climate change. Espinosa said that in recent years, China has developed renewable energy and clean energy technologies, helped remote villages achieve electrification, and vigorously carried out afforestation, etc. “These are very encouraging measures, and the people who really benefited from it “.
Those who do it often come, those who do it often come. Driven by technological innovation, China will unswervingly follow the path of ecological priority, green and low-carbon high-quality development, and lay a solid foundation for achieving the “dual-carbon” goal——
By the end of 2020, a total of 2,121 green factories, 171 green industrial parks, and 189 green supply chain enterprises have been built, exploring the formation of a batch of green manufacturing and energy-saving transformation models; the process of clean and low-carbon has been accelerating, and hydropower, wind power, photovoltaics, and construction Numerous indicators such as nuclear power installed capacity remain the world‘s first; the rapid development of the new energy automobile industry currently accounts for about 50% of the global total, and its production and sales have ranked first in the world for 6 consecutive years.
“China is an important provider of renewable energy and an important driver of green development.” The UN Coordinator in China, Chang Qide, is full of confidence in China’s realization of the “dual carbon” goal. He said: “When you feel the land The speed of innovation will definitely believe that China is capable of realizing this vision.”
“It reflects China’s firm support for multilateralism and a firm commitment to a greener and prosperous future.”
As an important participant, contributor, and leader in the construction of global ecological civilization, China firmly practices multilateralism, makes unremitting efforts to promote global cooperation in tackling climate change, and works with all parties to build a fair, reasonable, and win-win global environmental governance system.
Under China’s active promotion, countries reached the Paris Agreement to address climate change in 2015. China strives for the greatest benefits for developing countries in terms of independent contributions, financing, technical support, and transparency.
Through various forms of South-South practical cooperation, China helps developing countries improve their ability to respond to climate change. In 2015, China announced the launch of 10 low-carbon demonstration zones, 100 climate change mitigation and adaptation projects, and 1,000 training places for climate change in developing countries. The “Ten Hundred Thousand” project has been held for 45 sessions of climate change themes. Nearly 2,000 relevant people from more than 120 countries are invited to participate in the seminar.
China advocates that cooperation in the field of ecological civilization should be the key content of the joint construction of the “Belt and Road”. While striving to achieve its own green development, it has carried out extensive exchanges and cooperation on green development with countries and regions along the “Belt and Road”. In recent years, China’s investment in renewable energy projects in countries and regions along the “Belt and Road” has shown a sustained growth trend. In September of this year, China announced that it would vigorously support the green and low-carbon development of energy in developing countries and no longer build new overseas coal-fired power projects.
In Anderson’s view, while implementing the Sustainable Development Goals, China has always played an active and constructive role in multilateral occasions such as the United Nations. The announcement of major policies such as the “Double Carbon” goal “shows China’s firm support for multilateralism and is a firm commitment to a greener and more prosperous future.” Petri Taras, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, stated that China has played a key role in responding to climate change, meteorological research and assisting developing countries. Danilo Turk, former President of Slovenia, said: “China will play a key role in the world‘s transition to carbon neutrality.”
The upcoming COP26 will be the first conference of the parties to be held after the Paris Agreement has entered the implementation phase. China is willing to join hands with all parties to cope with climate change, promote the comprehensive, balanced, effective and continuous implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Paris Agreement, and make greater efforts and contributions to promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. The earth where humans live is even better.
Our reporter Gong Ming
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