China News Service, March 30. According to the official Weibo news of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, on March 30, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment held a regular press conference for March. The Ministry has always insisted on "zero tolerance" for falsification of carbon emission data.
"my country's carbon market has been running smoothly since the launch of online trading in July last year, and it is currently in an important development and cultivation period." Liu Youbin said that the public exposure of typical cases of falsification in carbon emission reports shows that the Ministry of Ecology and Environment maintains fairness in carbon emission trading. , fairness, and the determination and confidence to promote the healthy, stable and orderly operation of the national carbon market.
From October to December 2021, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will dispatch the backbone of law enforcement and industry experts in the national ecological environment system to go to 47 cities in 22 provinces to organize special supervision and assistance for the quality of carbon emission reports, and initially verify a number of typical and prominent problems.
Liu Youbin pointed out that from the typical cases of public exposure, it reflects that some of the current carbon market technical service agencies have some noteworthy problems.
First, the awareness of laws and regulations is weak.
Some consulting and testing institutions are driven by their interests to take risks, and use fraudulent means to help companies tamper with carbon emission data, which seriously interferes with the normal order of the carbon market.
Second, the management system is not perfect.
Some technical service agencies lack quality control systems, project management is chaotic, and work compliance and data authenticity are difficult to guarantee.
The third is the failure to implement work responsibilities.
In order to reduce costs, some verification agencies subcontract verification services layer by layer.
Some verification agencies only consult the ready-made data and materials provided by the enterprise, but do not verify the authenticity, completeness and accuracy of the data files.
Liu Youbin said that in the next step, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will focus on the following aspects: First, cooperate with the Ministry of Justice to actively promote the issuance of the "Interim Regulations on the Management of Carbon Emissions Trading" to further clarify the responsibilities and supervision and management requirements of technical service agencies.
The second is to severely crack down on fraud and other violations of laws and regulations.
The Ministry of Ecology and Environment has handed over the problems found in the special supervision and assistance of carbon emissions and related case files to the provincial ecological and environmental departments, instructing all localities to handle and punish according to laws and regulations, and those suspected of committing crimes will be transferred to the public security organs in a timely manner.
The third is to take multiple measures to strengthen supervision.
Establish and improve mechanisms for information sharing, joint investigation, and case transfer, and cooperate with relevant departments to strengthen the daily supervision of technical service institutions.
Strengthen information disclosure and credit supervision.
The quality of environmental data is the "lifeline" of environmental management, which is related to scientific decision-making, market fairness and government credibility.
The Ministry of Ecology and Environment will continue to maintain a high pressure on fraudulent environmental data, including carbon emissions data.
"Here, I release a message at the same time. This year, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and the Ministry of Public Security will continue to carry out special campaigns against environmental crimes through falsification of automatic monitoring data, focusing on investigating and punishing abnormal operation of automatic monitoring equipment and tampering with automatic monitoring data. Or interfere with automatic monitoring facilities, and third-party monitoring units provide false certification documents and other environmental violations and crimes, and resolutely say no to environmental data falsification." Liu Youbin introduced.