November 19, the National Development and Reform Commission held a press conference in November. Li Chao, deputy director of the Political Research Department of the National Development and Reform Commission and spokesman of the Commission, attended the conference to introduce the approval of investment projects and recent policies. He also answered questions from reporters on the economic situation, the "two new" policies, the private economy, the negative list of market access, the statistical accounting system of carbon emissions, the integration of industry and education in the domestic service industry, work-for-relief, energy supply and peak winter, and the Central European Banquet.
Cover news reporter: The 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference is being held. We have noticed that the National Development and Reform Commission, together with relevant departments, has recently issued the Work Plan for Improving the Statistical Accounting System for Carbon Emissions. What are the considerations behind improving this accounting system? What are the specific deployments? Li Chao, deputy director of the Policy Research Office of
the National Development and Reform Commission and spokesman of the National Development and Reform Commission: The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made arrangements for the establishment of a new mechanism for the comprehensive transformation from energy consumption control to carbon emission control and the establishment of a statistical accounting system for carbon emissions. Statistical accounting of carbon emissions refers to the process of measurement, statistics and analysis of carbon dioxide emissions, which is simply understood as accounting for the total amount of carbon dioxide emissions in production and life, and finding out the base number of carbon emissions. This is an important basic work, and only by finding out the bottom line can we better promote the implementation of the dual control system of carbon emissions, implement carbon emission reduction policies, and carry out international negotiations and compliance. In recent years, China has accelerated the construction of a unified and standardized statistical accounting system for carbon emissions, but this work involves multiple levels, multiple subjects and multiple dimensions, and there is still room for improvement in data quality and timeliness. In order to support the double control of carbon emissions during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, in October this year, the National Development and Reform Commission and other eight departments jointly issued the Work Program for Improving the Statistical Accounting System of Carbon Emissions, focusing on solving the key shortcomings faced by the current statistical accounting of carbon emissions, and striving to promote all levels, fields and industries to improve the statistical accounting of carbon emissions. Aiming at the five accounting scenarios of region, industry, enterprise, project and product,
the Plan puts forward a series of tasks. Regionally, the focus is to establish a national and provincial carbon emission data annual report and express report system to provide a basis for carbon assessment and other work. In terms of industry, the focus is on key industries such as power, iron and steel, non-ferrous metals, building materials, petrochemical and chemical industries, as well as key areas such as urban and rural construction and transportation, to carry out carbon emission accounting and solve the problem of unclear scope of inter-industry carbon emission accounting. In terms of enterprises, the focus is to improve the accounting methods of carbon emissions of enterprises, promote the reporting and verification of carbon emissions of enterprises in key industries in an orderly manner, and study the calculation methods of carbon emissions of non-fossil energy power, as well as the deduction methods of carbon capture, utilization, storage and carbon sinks, so as to strengthen and improve the management of carbon emissions of enterprises. In terms of projects, the focus is to build a project carbon emission and carbon emission reduction accounting and evaluation system, to study and set the carbon emission access level of investment projects in key industries, and to control the carbon emission level from the source of projects. In terms of products, the focus is to establish and improve the carbon footprint management system, that is, to track the carbon emissions of products from production, circulation to consumption, so as to provide basic support for the accounting of carbon emissions of products. In addition, the Plan also defines the key tasks of building a national greenhouse gas emission factor database, promoting the application of advanced technologies and new methodologies, and strengthening international cooperation, so as to provide technical support for the statistical accounting of carbon emissions.
Next, the National Development and Reform Commission will strengthen the overall planning of its work, establish a coordination mechanism for the statistical accounting of carbon emissions, guide local governments to issue guidelines and methodological guidelines for the accounting of carbon emissions, promote the implementation of tasks by relevant departments, and build a systematic and complete statistical accounting system for carbon emissions as soon as possible.
