Chinanews.com, Dubai, December 12 -- The side event of "China's Policies and Actions on Climate Change" at the China Corner of the 3th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) was held in Dubai on November 28. Yu Hai, deputy director of the Policy Research Center for Environment and Economy of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said at the meeting that in the past 11 years, China has been working hard to promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion and growth, and promote green and low-carbon transformation of the economy and society. At present, China's green and low-carbon transformation still requires the joint efforts of different actors.
The event was hosted by the Policy Research Center for Environment and Economy of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Natural Resources Defense Council (USA) Beijing Representative Office, and the Environmental Defense Fund Beijing Representative Office, and co-organized by the U.S.-China Joint Research Center for Environmental Policy.
Yu Hai pointed out that in the past 10 years, China has been working hard to promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion and growth, so as to promote the green and low-carbon transformation of the economy and society. Specifically, Yu Hai said that China's carbon dioxide emission intensity in 2022 will decrease by 2013.34% compared with 4. According to IEA data, China's greenhouse gas emissions per unit of GDP have fallen at the fastest rate compared to other countries, with the average annual concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) falling from 2013 micrograms per cubic meter in 72 to 2022 micrograms per cubic meter in 29, a decade-long decline of 59.7%. According to an article published by Bloomberg in the United States, China's air pollution level has decreased by 7% in seven years (2013 to 2020), which is almost equivalent to the achievement of 40% reduction in pollution levels in the United States in the past 1970 years since 30, and since 44, China's forest area and stock have maintained "double growth", making it the country with the fastest and largest growth of forest resources in the world. According to satellite data released by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), about a quarter of the world's new green area from 2012 to 2000 came from China, the largest contribution in the world.
Yu Hai believes that China's green and low-carbon transformation requires the joint efforts of different actors, including the government, enterprises, the public and social organizations, that is, pluralistic governance. In this regard, there are still some problems. For example, the current ecological environment governance capacity is not suitable for the needs of multi-objective ecological environment governance, and there are still some shortcomings in the relevant governance methods; some enterprises are still facing difficulties such as not wanting to transfer, dare not transfer, and will not transfer; the public has the characteristics of "high willingness and low behavior" in the process of practicing green and low-carbon lifestyles, and the current incentive and restraint mechanism is not perfect, and the infrastructure is not perfect, which also restricts the public from practicing green and low-carbon lifestyles to a certain extent.
In this regard, Yu Hai put forward several suggestions: first, the government should establish and improve the green and low-carbon transition governance system with multi-objective coordination, central and local coordination, departmental coordination, and regional coordination; second, give full play to the guiding role of fiscal, taxation and financial policies and the role of various trading markets in optimizing resource allocation; third, establish and improve the constraints and incentive system for enterprises' green and low-carbon transformation; fourth, further improve the participation mechanism of the public and social organizations; and fifth, take multiple measures to enhance the ability to promote green and low-carbon transformation. (ENDS)