China News Service, March 4th (Shi Rui) Previously, my country announced that carbon dioxide emissions will peak before 2030, and strive to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. In order to achieve the "dual carbon" goal, my country has launched carbon emission rights. Each year, relevant government departments first allocate carbon emission quotas to power companies for free.
Bai Chong'en, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, believes that in the existing carbon emission trading system, there are drawbacks in the initial distribution method of allowances. are residents, and power companies purchase allowances in the carbon emission rights market to meet their needs.
Data map: Photo by Bai Chongen China News Agency reporter Du Yang
For power companies, after reforming the initial distribution method of carbon emission allowances, power companies still have incentives to reduce emissions, because emission reduction can reduce the expenditure on purchasing allowances; at the same time, power companies will more fully bear the cost of emissions, if we allow electricity prices to Correspondingly adjusted, the power enterprises can not increase the burden, and the electricity price can better reflect the emission cost, so as to form the driving force for energy saving and emission reduction on the user side.
For electricity consumers, the higher cost end-users pay for electricity can be hedged by the benefits of selling emission rights, reducing the resistance to electricity price adjustments; in addition, if all residents are allocated the same emission allowances, low-income people usually use the If there is less electricity, the income from selling quota should be greater than the burden brought by electricity price adjustment, so as to obtain a net income, which is conducive to the improvement of income distribution.
Bai Chong'en also suggested that if power companies acquire insufficient quotas, they can ensure power supply by levying carbon taxes on excess quota emissions, while maintaining the motivation to reduce emissions.
In this way, it can not only ensure supply when the emission rights trading market is not running smoothly, but also adjust carbon emissions across years when the economic structure fluctuates.
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