How to achieve the Two-Carbon Goal

In response to climate change, my country has put forward solemn commitments such as “strive to peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and strive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060”. In this year’s government work report, “doing a good job of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality” is one of my country’s key tasks in 2021.”

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality is a broad and profound economic and social systemic change. We must incorporate carbon peaking and carbon neutrality into the overall layout of ecological civilization construction, and show the momentum of grasping iron and traces. , to achieve the goals of carbon peaking by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060 as scheduled.

Premier Li Keqiang pointed out that carbon peaking and carbon neutrality are the needs of my country’s economic transformation and upgrading and the joint response to climate change. Increase the proportion of clean energy, rely more on market mechanisms to promote energy conservation, emission reduction and carbon reduction, and enhance green development capabilities!

What is “carbon peak” and “carbon neutral”

Carbon peaking means that carbon dioxide emissions reach the highest value in history, and then enter the process of continuous decline after a plateau period, which is also the historical inflection point of carbon dioxide emissions from increasing to decreasing;

Carbon neutrality refers to reducing the carbon dioxide emitted by human activities to a minimum through energy efficiency improvement and energy substitution, and then offsetting carbon dioxide emissions through other means such as forest carbon sinks or capture to achieve a balance between sources and sinks.

How to Achieve the Two-Carbon Goal

To achieve the dual-carbon goal, energy efficiency should be taken as an important focus to achieve carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. Adhere to and strengthen energy conservation work in the whole process and in all fields, continue to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the source, promote a comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, and build a modernization where man and nature coexist in harmony.

Achieving the dual-carbon goal requires a comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, involving energy structure, industrial transportation, ecological construction and other fields, and it is urgent to give full play to the leading and supporting role of scientific and technological innovation.

To achieve the requirements of the dual-carbon goal, it is necessary to strengthen policy coordination, improve the institutional system, build a long-term mechanism, promote the modernization of energy-saving management, service, and supervision capabilities, and accelerate the formation of an incentive and restraint mechanism that is conducive to green and low-carbon development.