Carbon emissions, carbon trading, carbon peak, carbon neutralization.. In recent years, with the in-depth implementation of the "double carbon" strategy, more and more industries have begun to plan their layout in the "double carbon" field. For environmental enterprises, concentrating their efforts to seize the "double carbon" track is the direction of the medium and long-term strategy. Zhou Jinbo, deputy to
the National People's Congress and general manager of Anhui Conch Building Material Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd., suggested expanding the coverage of the carbon market, optimizing the quota setting of the carbon market, and bringing the cement industry into the national carbon market.
"Under the background of double carbon, carbon emission reduction in cement industry has become an inevitable trend." Zhou Jinbo said that the cement industry's entry into the carbon market is conducive to giving full play to the market mechanism, encouraging cement enterprises to tackle key problems through green low-carbon technology, accelerating the development and application of advanced and applicable technologies, eliminating backward equipment and production capacity, and realizing the green and low-carbon development of the cement industry.
With the transformation of China's economic development mode to green and low-carbon, the importance of carbon emission management has become increasingly apparent. On July 16,
2021, the national carbon market was officially put into operation, and the first batch was incorporated into the thermal power industry. After more than a year of operation, the basic framework of the national carbon market has been initially established, and the overall operation of the carbon market is stable. According to the statistics of Shanghai Ring Exchange, as of December 30, 2022, the total turnover of carbon emission quotas in China was 230 million tons, with a total turnover of 10.475 billion yuan. The
realization of "double carbon" is a tough battle and a big test.
From the first year of the power generation industry's participation in the carbon market, there are still some problems in the national carbon market, such as the positive incentive effect of quota allocation is not prominent, and the coverage of the carbon market is relatively single. Zhou Jinbo believes that it is necessary to incorporate other qualified industries as soon as possible to expand the coverage of the national carbon market.
Cement is an important basic raw material for national economic development. With the continuous advancement of industrialization and urbanization in China and the rapid development of infrastructure, cement production has ranked first in the world for many years. Zhou Jinbo said that cement will remain the main building material for a long time to come.
As we all know, the cement industry has always been a major carbon dioxide emitter due to the inherent raw material structure and production process constraints.
The "double carbon" track is wide and long.
Zhou Jinbo suggested that a unified national implementation plan for setting and allocating the total amount of carbon emission trading quotas in the cement industry should be formulated, and a unified and standardized statistical accounting system for carbon emissions should be established, so that new production capacity can obtain carbon emission quotas through carbon market transactions.
He said that in this process, the average emission level of cement clinker production can be used as the benchmark value of carbon emissions in the cement industry, and the actual clinker output of each cement clinker production line in the previous year can be used as the approved upper limit of this year's output. Set a reasonable annual decline coefficient to control the total amount of carbon emission trading quotas, so as to enhance the carbon management awareness and ability of enterprises, and help achieve the "double carbon" goal as soon as possible.