Zhongxin Finance, April 28 (Reporter Ruan Yulin) The American Environmental Protection Association and the Shanghai Environment and Energy Exchange jointly hosted the "Corporate Climate Information Disclosure and Carbon Market Mechanism" roundtable forum on the 28th.

The participants said that corporate carbon information disclosure is of great significance to the realization of the "dual carbon" goal, and a long-term mechanism for the quality of carbon emission data needs to be improved.

  After China announces the "dual carbon" goal in 2020, the country's economy, industry and investment structure will all face deep transformation.

The "dual carbon" goal will drive a huge amount of capital into the low-carbon field, which also puts forward higher requirements for climate information disclosure.

  According to Zhang Jianyu, Executive Dean of the Belt and Road Green Development International Research Institute, achieving the goal of carbon neutrality requires not only a low-carbon transformation of financial investment activities, but also requires the government, enterprises, individuals and other relevant entities to incorporate "carbon" into their daily decision-making. Mandatory disclosure of climate information is the basis for this process.

  Zhang Jianyu said that since 2011, China's carbon market has accumulated rich experience in the application of greenhouse gas accounting methodologies in the process of construction and operation, which can be used as the basis for supporting corporate climate information disclosure.

As the price signals of China's carbon market become clearer, stakeholders can comprehensively use carbon prices and climate-related data to quantitatively assess climate risks and climate benefits in a more direct "currency" symbol.

  Wang Ying, director of the Climate Change and Green Finance Program of the US Environmental Protection Association, believes that the risks brought by climate change will have a systemic impact on the financial system and even the entire society. We need accurate and continuous data to assess and manage climate risks.

"Voluntary information disclosure can play a certain role in demonstration and leadership, but the information disclosed by companies under the above framework is not enough to support investment decisions."

  Lai Xiaoming, chairman of the Shanghai Environment and Energy Exchange, said that corporate carbon information disclosure is of great significance to achieving the dual carbon goal.

The "Measures for the Administration of Carbon Emissions Trading" proposes to disclose relevant information in many places, especially to regularly disclose the annual greenhouse gas emission reports of key emission units.

This year's National Ecological Environmental Protection Work Conference also clearly pointed out that to do a good job in the management of the second performance cycle of the national carbon emission trading market, it is necessary to improve the long-term mechanism for carbon emission data quality.

Strengthening high-quality carbon emission management and information disclosure has become an international trend.

  Zhang Xin, chief economist of the National Climate Change Strategy Research and International Cooperation Center, said that the mutual promotion and construction of the carbon market and corporate information disclosure should have a law-enforcement, coherent, stable and detailed management rule.

In the context of building a unified national market, the exchange and registration system of the national carbon market can serve as an effective carbon emission management information platform and play its role in sharing.

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