Promoting energy conservation and carbon reduction in key areas

On March 5, at the first meeting of the 14th the National People's Congress, the Report on the Work of the Government proposed to promote energy conservation and carbon reduction in key areas. Which areas have the potential to reduce carbon? How to do it? Peng Yingdeng, an expert on strengthening supervision and emergency response of

the central ecological environment and a consultant of the Central Leading Group on Double Carbon, believes that the basic idea of carbon reduction in the world starts from key areas. In our country, in addition to the key areas, we need to do some major optimization from the production and lifestyle of the whole society, in order to reduce carbon at the source and in the whole process.

First of all, we should optimize the energy structure, industrial structure, transportation structure and urban land use structure, establish a good mode of production and lifestyle, and promote carbon emission reduction in various fields to achieve the established goals and tasks. Steel, non-ferrous metals, building materials, paper and other industries will be included in the carbon compliance. In view of the "two high and one low" project, the audit of compulsory cleaner production promotes the low-carbon development of the whole industrial process. The power generation industry is included in the national carbon market for trading performance, but how to control the non-performance? In the future, besides the carbon tax, there will be some social carbon books to promote the emission reduction of lifestyle. Ma Jun, director of the Center for

Public Environmental Research, also said that "two high and one low" projects with high energy consumption, high emissions and low levels should be curbed. The report mentions the need to promote energy conservation and carbon reduction in key areas, and many "two high and one low" projects belong to these key areas. Therefore, from the level of planning and approval, we must firmly hold the bottom line. In the process of this round of economic development, we should not let the "two high and one low" projects start again in large numbers, otherwise we will pay much more costs and costs to solve these problems, because they will have an impact on the environment and people's livelihood. Another key issue in

promoting energy conservation and carbon reduction in key areas is that China is experiencing large-scale industrialization and urbanization, and the total emissions of iron and steel, non-ferrous metals, cement, building materials and other industries are large and intensive. Over the past decade, many enterprises have been upgraded and rebuilt, and their emission intensity has begun to decline, but there are still many energy-intensive industries with backward production technology and extensive pollution control, resulting in high overall energy consumption and intensity. In this case, we need to vigorously promote these enterprises to improve energy efficiency, because the current energy structure has not been completed, so energy saving is carbon reduction, these areas have great potential to save energy, while reducing pollution emissions.

Ma Jun believes that first of all, we should find out the family background, complete the accounting of these industries, and promote their carbon disclosure. "To achieve local pollution reduction, one of the good experiences is to effectively monitor and disclose information, which can not only introduce social supervision to enhance law enforcement, but also promote and support the green transformation of enterprises through green finance and green supply chain."