Ministry of Ecology and Environment: Quickly formulate an action plan for peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030

　　Chinanews.com, January 13th. According to the website of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has recently issued the "Guiding Opinions on Coordinating and Strengthening the Work Related to Climate Change and Ecological Environmental Protection" (hereinafter referred to as the "Guiding Opinions"). "It is pointed out that we should promptly formulate an action plan for peaking carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, comprehensively use relevant policy tools and measures, and continue to promote implementation.

All localities should put forward positive and clear peak attainment goals based on actual conditions, and formulate peak attainment implementation plans and supporting measures.

Encourage the development of special plans for reaching peaks in key areas such as energy, industry, transportation, and construction.

Promote key industries such as steel, building materials, nonferrous metals, chemicals, petrochemicals, electric power, coal and other key industries to propose clear peak goals and formulate peak action plans.

　　The "Guiding Opinions" put forward the main objectives. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, a pattern of overall coordination and integration of climate change and ecological environmental protection work has been formed, and a coordinated optimization and efficient work system has basically been established. The development of unified policy planning standards and unified monitoring Key progress has been made in the areas of assessment, unified supervision and law enforcement, and unified inspection and accountability. The climate governance capabilities have been significantly improved.

　　By 2030, the overall joint efforts to address climate change and ecological environmental protection will be fully utilized, and the ecological environment governance system and governance capabilities will be steadily improved, providing support for achieving the peak carbon dioxide emission target and carbon neutrality vision, and helping to build a beautiful China.

　　The "Guiding Opinions" pointed out that we should promptly formulate an action plan for peaking carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, comprehensively use relevant policy tools and measures, and continue to promote implementation.

All localities should put forward positive and clear peak attainment goals based on actual conditions, and formulate peak attainment implementation plans and supporting measures.

Encourage the development of special plans for reaching peaks in key areas such as energy, industry, transportation, and construction.

Promote key industries such as steel, building materials, nonferrous metals, chemicals, petrochemicals, electric power, coal and other key industries to propose clear peak goals and formulate peak action plans.

　　At the same time, speed up the establishment of the national carbon emission trading market system, system construction and basic capacity building, take the lead in the power generation industry as a breakthrough point to launch online trading nationwide, gradually expand the market coverage, and promote the transition of regional carbon emission trading pilots to the national carbon market. Use market mechanisms to control and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

　　The "Guiding Opinions" require that we promote the realization of the synergistic effect of reducing pollution and carbon.

Priority will be given to source governance measures such as fossil energy substitution, raw material process optimization, and industrial structure upgrading, and strictly control the construction of high-energy-consuming and high-emission projects.

Intensify the optimization and adjustment of the transportation structure, promote "revolution to railway", "revolution to water" and multimodal transportation, and promote energy-saving and new energy vehicles.

Strengthen the pollution control and comprehensive utilization of livestock and poultry breeding waste, strengthen the environmental management of centralized disposal facilities such as sewage and garbage, and coordinate the control of greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxide.

Encourage all localities to actively explore innovative measures and effective mechanisms for collaborative control of greenhouse gas and pollutant emissions.

　　The "Guiding Opinions" put forward to actively promote some regions and industries to take precedence.

Support the qualified places and industries to take the lead in reaching the peak of carbon emissions, promote the places that have reached the peak to further reduce carbon emissions, and support the places with a better foundation to explore and carry out pilot demonstrations of near-zero carbon emissions and carbon neutrality.

Select typical cities and regions to carry out pilot demonstrations of achieving air quality and carbon emission peaks.

In steel, building materials, non-ferrous metals and other industries, carry out pilot demonstrations of coordinated control of air pollutants and greenhouse gases.

　　At the same time, the relevant person in charge of the Comprehensive Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment answered questions from reporters on the background, general ideas, and key measures of the "Guiding Opinions".

Question: What is the background and purpose of issuing the "Guiding Opinions"?

　　Answer: Climate change is a major global challenge facing mankind today.

Actively responding to climate change is an inherent requirement for my country to achieve sustainable development, an important starting point for strengthening the construction of ecological civilization and achieving the goal of a beautiful China, and a major historical responsibility for my country to fulfill its responsibility as a major country and promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

General Secretary Xi Jinping announced at the General Debate of the Seventy-fifth United Nations General Assembly my country’s goal of striving to reach the peak of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and the vision of achieving carbon neutrality by 2060, and further announced at the Climate Ambition Summit The latest measures of national independent contributions.

　　For a long time, my country has unswervingly implemented the national strategy to actively respond to climate change, participated in and led global climate governance, and achieved remarkable results in response to climate change, which has effectively promoted the construction of ecological civilization and ecological environmental protection.

At the same time, we must also realize that the ecological environment has a long way to go, and the task of achieving the peak carbon dioxide emission target and the vision of carbon neutrality is very arduous. The overall coordination and integration of climate change and ecological environment protection needs to be strengthened.

　　In 2018, the party and state institutions were reformed to adjust the functions of responding to climate change to the newly formed Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and realized coordinated management of climate change and environmental governance, ecological protection and restoration in terms of institutional mechanisms.

Coordinating and strengthening the work related to climate change and ecological environmental protection is conducive to accelerating the coordination of relevant functions of the ecological environment system and the integration of institutional mechanisms, and is conducive to making good use of the advantages of existing policy tools, measures and basic capabilities for ecological environmental protection , Which is conducive to the formation of an overall synergy in response to climate change and environmental protection.

　　In order to resolutely implement the major announcement of General Secretary Jinping, unswervingly implement the national strategy to actively respond to climate change, better fulfill the responsibilities of the leading department in response to climate change, and accelerate the completion of shortcomings in cognitive level, policy tools, measures, and basic capabilities To promote synergies in response to climate change and environmental governance, ecological protection and restoration, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has organized and formulated the "Guiding Opinions", which clarified the main areas and key tasks for coordinating and strengthening the response to climate change and ecological environmental protection, and promote the ecological environment The governance system and governance capabilities have been steadily improved to provide support for achieving the goal of peaking carbon dioxide emissions and the vision of carbon neutrality, and help the construction of a beautiful China.

Question: What are the main ideas of the "Guiding Opinions" in coordinating and strengthening the work related to climate change and ecological protection?

　　Answer: The "Guiding Opinions" follow the idea of ​​systematic planning, overall promotion, and key breakthroughs, and put forward key task arrangements from five aspects: strategic planning, policies and regulations, institutional systems, pilot demonstrations, and international cooperation, and strive to promote the formulation of unified policy planning standards. , Unified monitoring and evaluation, unified supervision of law enforcement, unified supervision and accountability.

　　One is to adhere to goal orientation.

Focusing on the implementation of the carbon dioxide emission peak target and carbon neutrality vision, we will coordinate the promotion of climate change and ecological environmental protection related work, strengthen the top-level design, focus on solving problems that are not compatible with the new situation, new tasks and new requirements, and coordinate to promote high-quality economic development And high-level protection of the ecological environment.

　　The second is to strengthen overall coordination.

Responding to climate change and ecological and environmental protection related work unified planning, unified layout, unified implementation, unified inspection, and establish a sound integrated strategy, planning, policy and action system.

　　The third is to highlight synergy.

The "niubi" that takes carbon reduction as the source of governance, coordinated control of greenhouse gas and pollutant emissions, and coordinated efforts to adapt to climate change and ecological protection and restoration.

Question: What are the key tasks identified in the "Guiding Opinions" in promoting the integration of strategic planning?

　　Answer: The "Guiding Opinions" clarified the tasks of promoting the overall integration of strategic planning from three aspects: strengthening the overall strategic planning, strengthening the organic connection of planning, and fully promoting the peaking action.

　　The first is to strengthen macro-strategic coordination, take climate change as an important part of the construction of a beautiful China, as an important starting point for environmental protection to participate in macroeconomic governance, and systematically plan a major medium- and long-term ecological environmental protection strategy.

　　The second is to strengthen the organic connection of planning, formulate special plans for addressing climate change, integrate climate change targets and tasks into ecological environmental protection plans, and special plans for pollution prevention and ecological protection must reflect climate-friendly concepts.

　　The third is to make every effort to promote the peaking action, to formulate an action plan for peaking carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, to support and promote the formulation and implementation of peaking plans for local, key industries and fields, and to accelerate the construction of a national carbon emission trading market.

Question: What are the key tasks identified in the Guiding Opinions in promoting the integration of policies and regulations?

　　Answer: The "Guiding Opinions" clarify the tasks of promoting the coordination and integration of laws and regulations from five aspects: laws and regulations, standard systems, environmental economic policies, pollution reduction and carbon reduction coordination, climate change adaptation and ecological protection and restoration coordination.

　　The first is to coordinate and promote the formulation and revision of relevant laws and regulations, accelerate the promotion of relevant legislation to address climate change, promote the addition of content related to climate change in the process of relevant legal formulation and revision, and encourage local governments to formulate relevant local regulations.

　　The second is to promote the integration of standard systems, strengthen the formulation and revision of climate change standards, build a framework system for climate change standards, and improve and expand the ecological environment standard system.

　　The third is to promote the overall integration of environmental and economic policies, accelerate the formation of an environmental and economic policy framework system that actively responds to climate change, and promote the coordination of climate investment and financing and green financial policies.

　　The fourth is to promote the realization of the synergistic effect of pollution reduction and carbon reduction, promote the coordinated governance of industry, transportation, agriculture and other fields, and encourage all regions to actively explore innovative measures and effective mechanisms for coordinated control.

　　Fifth, coordinate efforts to promote adaptation to climate change and ecological protection and restoration, attach importance to the use of nature-based solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change, and coordinate efforts to promote biodiversity protection and the management of landscape, forest, field, lake and grass systems.

Question: What are the key tasks identified in the Guiding Opinions in promoting the integration of institutional systems?

　　Answer: The "Guiding Opinions" clarified the tasks of promoting the integration of institutional systems from five aspects: statistical investigation, evaluation management, monitoring system, supervision and law enforcement, and supervision and accountability.

　　The first is to promote the overall integration of statistical surveys, coordinate surveys on greenhouse gas emissions in environmental statistics, improve the working mechanism of national and local greenhouse gas inventory compilation, and promote the establishment of normalized channels for obtaining basic data on climate change and a mechanism for departmental consultation.

　　The second is to promote the overall integration of evaluation management, incorporate climate change requirements into the "three lines and one single" ecological environment zoning management and control system, promote the inclusion of climate change impacts into environmental impact assessment, and organize pilot studies on greenhouse gas emissions and pollution permit management in key industries.

　　The third is to promote the integration of monitoring systems, strengthen greenhouse gas monitoring, and gradually incorporate the ecological environment monitoring system for implementation, and explore the development of greenhouse gas emission monitoring research and pilot projects at key emission point sources, regional and national levels.

　　The fourth is to promote the coordination and integration of supervision and law enforcement, strengthen the supervision and management of key emission units in the national carbon emission trading market, such as data submission, verification, and quota settlement and performance, and strengthen the supervision of ecological protection in key areas such as nature reserves and ecological protection red lines.

　　Fifth, promote the overall integration of inspections and assessments, promote the inclusion of outstanding problems in the work related to climate change and the implementation of carbon peak targets into the scope of ecological environmental protection inspections, and strengthen the responsibility system and assessment of the control of greenhouse gas emissions.

Question: What measures will the Ministry of Ecology and Environment take to ensure the smooth implementation of the "Guiding Opinions"?

　　Answer: In order to strengthen the implementation guarantee, the "Guiding Opinions" put forward three aspects of work requirements.

The first is to strengthen organization and leadership, establish a coordination mechanism, regularly schedule and implement progress, and strengthen follow-up evaluation and supervision and inspection.

The second is to strengthen capacity building, focus on improving the awareness of actively responding to climate change, strengthen the building of personnel and technical support capabilities, strengthen financial guarantees, and give full play to the decision-making support role of professional think tanks.

The third is to strengthen publicity and guidance, coordinate the development of publicity, education and popular science activities on climate change and ecological environmental protection, and promote the style of green, low-carbon, diligence and thrift.