China'S Low Carbon Action Under International Negotiations

In October 9th, it took 6 days, and the more than 2000 people participated in the fourth UN climate change negotiations in 2010 in Tianjin.

This is the first time China has hosted a climate negotiation conference under the framework of the United Nations.

On the day of the conference, Christina Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Climate Change Convention and executive secretary of the UN climate change convention, gave a more positive evaluation of the meeting. She believed that 6 days' efforts of the 177 countries had removed some differences for the climate change conference held in Cancun, Mexico at the end of the year.

But there are voices saying that this is another fruitless meeting after the Copenhagen conference at the end of last year.

There is no substantial progress in terms of emission reduction targets and funding implementation.

As a major emitter of carbon dioxide, China's position and attitude in the negotiations on climate change have attracted much attention.

Although the negotiations were considered to be ineffective, several fields from the Chinese delegation were held.

Some analysts have commented that on the issue of emission reduction, it is precisely because China has already started to do the real thing. Therefore, in recent international negotiations, the Chinese delegation appears to be more and more emboldened.

It seems that the international negotiation with a sharp sword is quite different from the common people and enterprises in China, but its ripple effect exerts a subtle influence.

For example, more and more people are practicing low-carbon life, and more and more enterprises are pursuing low carbon economy.

Jie Zhenhua, deputy director of the national development and Reform Commission, said recently that China's energy conservation and emission reduction is not only the need of global response to climate change, but also the inherent requirement of China's sustainable development.

From defense to initiative

Although he has left the Chinese Negotiating delegation for more than a year, Zou Ji still closely observed the performance of the Chinese delegation in the climate negotiations.

Zou Ji's current status is the chief representative of the World Resources Institute in China. As the head of a research institute, he released a research report on China's low carbon economy at the same meeting held at the Tianjin conference.

Compared with previous negotiations, Zou Ji said

In the past, Chinese negotiators in the talks may have more emphasis on the difficulties of emission reduction in developing countries, and the whole negotiation has shown a defensive and defensive stance.

But in recent years, the Chinese delegation has become more confident and dared to emphasize to the international community that the low carbon economy has been the main direction of China's economic development. No matter what the outcome of the negotiations is, China must resolutely save energy and reduce emissions.

The most positive gesture is that China, which did not undertake the task of reducing emissions before the Copenhagen conference in 2009, announced that in 2020, China's energy consumption per unit GDP would be 40%~45% lower than that in 2005.

This means that China will have to enter the low-carbon era ahead of schedule in the future economic development, which many developed countries can not do.

In Zou Ji's view, the Chinese delegation's bottom line in the negotiations is closely related to its commitment to the future and the efforts it has made.

A data quoted by Jie Zhenhua many times is that if the energy saving target of 20% energy consumption per unit GDP established by the "11th Five-Year plan" can be achieved by the end of the year, it will be equivalent to 6 million tons of standard coal in the past 5 years and 15 billion tons of carbon dioxide emission reduction.

At the Tianjin conference, the Chinese delegation not only held several press conferences to open its own views, but also senior officials of the Chinese delegation, including Jie Zhenhua, frequently received interviews with media from home and abroad.

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There has always been no lack of blame and criticism in the negotiation process, and so did the Tianjin conference.

When the meeting was over half, Todd Stern, the US envoy on climate change, accused China of obstructing this round of climate negotiations on the other side of the globe.

In response to such accusations, Su Wei, head of the Chinese delegation and director of the climate division of the national development and Reform Commission, retorted that the United States not only did nothing about emissions reduction, but also wanted to shirk its responsibilities and blame the problem on China and other developing countries.

Some experts believe that such a strong response from the Chinese delegation stems from the sincerity, determination and efforts of the Chinese government in promoting the process of climate change negotiations and coping with climate change.

This will bring new hope to international negotiations.

National Low Carbon Action under international negotiations

Zhang Jianyu is the head of a non-governmental organization.

During the Tianjin conference, the organization of its organization, the national development and Reform Commission and the climate department held a conference on China's carbon trading.

He told reporters that at the meeting, the responsible person of the national development and Reform Commission revealed that the management measures of China's greenhouse gas voluntary emission reduction activities (Provisional) will be issued soon, and such regulations will probably greatly promote the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in China, because the commitment to achieve GDP energy consumption reduction of 40%~45% over 2005 must be supplemented by strong economic means.

As a developing country, China can not undertake greenhouse gas emission reduction internationally, but in recent years, some domestic enterprises in China have locked low carbon, emission reduction and trade as future business opportunities.

The most symbolic event is the establishment of a carbon exchange in Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin over the past one or two years. The cake related to the low carbon economy seems to be in sight.

However, since the establishment of the three exchanges, the business of emission reduction pactions is relatively light, most of them have the "demonstration" nature.

In the industry, the reason behind this is that although the industry does not deny the future of the low carbon economy, there are many shortcomings in the new field.

Therefore, since last year, the national development and Reform Commission is brewing a system of regulating carbon trading, hoping that China's low-carbon market can start quickly.

In fact, similar laws and policies to promote the development of social economy towards low carbon have been emerging in China in recent years.

In Zhang Jianyu's view, although the prospect of international negotiations on climate change is unknown, in China, it has entered the era of universal low carbon.

At the government level, a few months ago, the Chinese government announced that eight cities in five provinces should conduct pilot projects on low carbon provinces and cities. At the enterprise level, in the past, the government had asked for mandatory energy consumption reduction tasks. At present, some enterprises had tasted low carbon sweeteners and independently reduced emissions. At the citizen level, the low-carbon lifestyle was also moved from the small group to the public.

The arrival of the national low carbon era is related to the continuous emission reduction efforts of the Chinese government during the whole "11th Five-Year" period.

In explaining this change, Jie Zhenhua said that China's efforts to reduce emissions are due to the needs of China's economic development.

He said that over the past 30 years since reform and opening up, China's economic development has achieved universally recognized achievements, but at the same time, it has also paid considerable resources and environmental costs.

The environmental problems encountered by industrialized countries in the past 200 years have been concentrated in China's rapid development over the past 30 years.

To solve these problems, we must develop green economy, develop circular economy, pform traditional industries with low carbon technology, raise energy efficiency as much as possible, raise output rate of resources as much as possible, pform our development and consumption patterns, and adjust our economic structure, industrial structure and energy structure.

Only in this way can China's economic development continue.

Jie Zhenhua said, "the carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP are down by 40%~45% compared with 2005." this is a challenging goal, but we will certainly do so.

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At the Tianjin conference, the Ministry of science and Technology issued the report on China's 2010 developing clean energy technology, which systematically introduced the progress and Prospect of clean technology in China in recent years.

The report is also considered by the industry to be the future of China's low carbon technology route.

The report says that in the future, China will regard wind power as one of the main alternative energy sources to adjust the energy structure and respond to climate change. Solar energy related technologies will also make great progress. In 2020, the scale of the new energy vehicle market will reach tens of millions of vehicles, so as to realize the strategic pformation of China's automobile industry.

Zou Ji, chief representative of China's World Resources Research Institute, said that since the Chinese government put forward the goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions from GDP units by 40%~45%, they have done a research to explore what measures need to be taken to achieve this goal.

In his view, the necessary measures include further improving the existing energy efficiency, large-scale use of renewable energy sources such as wind energy, and capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide.

To achieve the change of energy structure, we need to assist a series of economic and tax means.

In Jie Zhenhua, there is also a roadmap for China's future climate change.

He said, first of all, we should combine the five year plan of the country and put forward a decomposition plan for controlling greenhouse gas emissions in 2020, and promote the establishment of greenhouse gas emission statistics, accounting system and target responsibility assessment system.

At the same time, we should select typical places and enterprises, carry out a typical demonstration of coping with climate change at different levels, explore institutional mechanisms and regional and industrial development models that are conducive to reducing carbon emission intensity, and accelerate the formation of an industrial system and consumption pattern characterized by low carbon emissions.

Secondly, we should speed up the legislative process of tackling climate change, establish the important position of coping with climate change in the national development strategy pattern, and establish institutional arrangements and policy framework for tackling climate change.

Jie Zhenhua said that according to the requirements of tackling climate change, we should make corresponding amendments to relevant laws, regulations, regulations, standards, and so on, and effectively maintain the consistency of policies and actions in various fields.

Moreover, the state should formulate strategies and plans for national science and technology development in response to climate change, study and put forward a roadmap for China's low carbon technology development, and take low-carbon technologies such as renewable energy, advanced nuclear energy and new energy vehicles as core contents to enhance the competitiveness of national technology, and vigorously study the development of energy saving and emission reduction technologies in the field of construction and pportation.