"China will increase its nationally determined contribution, adopt more powerful policies and measures, strive to peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, and strive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060." On September 22, 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the general debate of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, which has only been one year and one month.
What has been said must be practiced, and a good strategy must be determined.
A few days ago, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the "Opinions on The Complete, Accurate and Comprehensive Implementation of the New Development Concept to Do a Good Job in Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality", which once again emphasized that it is necessary to unswervingly follow the high-quality development path of ecological priority and green and low carbon to ensure that carbon peaking and carbon neutrality are achieved on schedule. The "Opinions" also clarified the main goal, by 2025, the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption to reach about 20%, by 2060, the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption to reach more than 80%.
Subsequently, the State Council issued the "Carbon Peak action plan before 2030", focusing on the carbon peak target by 2030, making overall arrangements for promoting carbon peaking, and further proposing that by 2030, the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption will reach about 25%, and carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP will be reduced by more than 65% compared with 2005, and the carbon peak target before 2030 will be successfully achieved.
Under the background of the tense international energy supply and demand situation, the domestic active deployment of power and coal material supply this winter and next spring, to ensure the basic livelihood of the masses and the stable operation of the economy, the release of the "Opinions" and "Action Plan" one by one reflects the firm determination and implementation of the established dual-carbon strategy.
Without implementing the major strategic decision of "carbon peaking and carbon neutrality" to the end, it will be impossible to truly solve the problem of Resource and Environmental Constraints in China, and it will be difficult to achieve the sustainable development of the Chinese nation.
On October 27, the Information Office of the State Council issued a white paper entitled "China's Policies and Actions to Address Climate Change" and held a press conference, at which Sun Zhen, head of the Department of Climate Change of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said that China will continue to control the growth of coal consumption, increase efforts to develop renewable energy, accelerate the improvement of the power system, and build a new power system that adapts to a high proportion of renewable energy.
Sun Zhen particularly stressed that as a developing country, China is facing tasks such as developing the economy, improving people's livelihood, and maintaining energy security, and there are still many practical difficulties and challenges in adjusting the energy structure, which cannot be achieved overnight. It is necessary to adhere to the system concept, adhere to the risk prevention, handle the current and long-term relationship, handle the relationship between pollution reduction and carbon reduction and energy security, industrial chain supply security, and the normal life of the masses, effectively respond to the risks that may accompany the green and low-carbon transformation, and ensure safe carbon reduction.
Effectively responding to risks and ensuring safe carbon reduction is a tactical issue, and it is a strategic issue to complete the carbon peak target by 2030 and the carbon neutrality target by 2060.
In the "Action Plan" issued by the State Council, there are general requirements and working principles, one of which is "steady and orderly, safe and carbon reduction", this principle emphasizes that it is necessary to base on China's energy resource endowments of rich coal, poor oil and gas, adhere to the principle of establishing first and then breaking, stabilizing the stock, expanding the increment, taking the national energy security and economic development as the bottom line, winning time to achieve the gradual replacement of new energy, promoting the smooth transition of low-carbon energy transformation, and effectively ensuring national energy security, industrial chain supply chain security, Food security and the normal production and life of the masses, focus on resolving various risks and hidden dangers, prevent excessive reactions, and promote carbon peaking actions in a sound and orderly and step-by-step manner to ensure safe carbon reduction.
There are broken and standing, first established and then broken, which is also a tactical issue in the strategic determination of adhering to the "carbon peak and carbon neutrality".