International observation: China's contribution to Global Climate Governance

2021-11-05

From October 31 to November 12, as the first conference of the parties after the Paris agreement entered the implementation phase, the twenty Sixth Conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change (cop26) was held in Glasgow. China is an activist in Climate Governance. After the Paris agreement was reached, China took the initiative to assume international responsibilities consistent with its national conditions with practical actions, strengthened its action to deal with climate change, and contributed to the implementation of the Paris Agreement. Promoting the implementation of the commitments of the Paris Agreement China has always taken the initiative to assume international responsibilities consistent with its national conditions, made key and important contributions to the Paris Agreement, actively promoted the comprehensive, balanced and effective implementation of the Paris agreement after the agreement was reached, and demonstrated the style of a major country actively responding to climate change and leading global climate governance. China has guided and promoted the conclusion of the Paris Agreement. China and the United States jointly issued three joint statements on climate change in November 2014, September 2015 and March 2016, which played a key role in the conclusion of the Paris Agreement and directly promoted the signing and entry into force of the Paris Agreement. During the Paris Conference on climate change, the Chinese government delegation conducted extensive exchanges and intensive consultations with representatives of other countries to contribute Chinese wisdom to the key, difficult and focus issues involved in the detailed rules for the implementation of the Paris Agreement. After the meeting, China took the lead in ratifying the Paris Agreement and completing the peer review report on fossil fuel subsidies under the framework of the G20. Fabius, former Foreign Minister of France and then president of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, once stressed that without China's active support, the Paris agreement could not be reached, and China plays a key role in the implementation of the Paris Agreement. China will keep its word and act with results, and actively implement the commitments of the Paris Agreement. In 2017, the United States announced its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, resulting in major uncertainty in the process of Global Climate Governance cooperation. In times of crisis, China has always set an example and continued to independently improve its climate action. In December 2016, the energy production and consumption revolution strategy (2016-2030) put forward the long-term goal of China's energy development by 2050. After several years of practice, China's energy structure reform has achieved remarkable results. According to the white paper data of China's policies and actions to deal with climate change, in 2020, the proportion of non fossil energy in China's total energy consumption increased to 15.9%, a significant increase of 8.5 percentage points over 2005. The power generation capacity of non fossil energy reached 2.6 trillion kwh, accounting for more than one-third of the power consumption of the whole society. In terms of total carbon emission control, China has carried out relevant institutional and practical exploration. In 2017, China issued the national carbon emission trading market construction plan (power generation industry), marking the official launch of the national carbon market. In October 2020, the Ministry of ecology and environment and other five departments jointly issued the guidance on promoting investment and financing in response to climate change, and made a preliminary exploration on the total carbon emission control system. On July 16, 2021, the online trading of the national carbon market was officially launched, covering about 4.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions. It is the largest carbon market in the world. According to the data of the Ministry of ecological environment, as of September 30, 2021, the cumulative turnover of carbon emission quotas in the national carbon market was about 17.65 million tons, with a cumulative turnover of about 801 million yuan. By continuously and independently improving the intensity of climate action, China has fulfilled and exceeded the 2020 climate action goal promised to the international community. In 2020, China's carbon emission intensity will be 48.4% lower than that in 2005, exceeding China's commitment to reduce by 40% - 45% by 2020, and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by about 5.8 billion tons. Climate Governance upholds the consensus of multilateralism General secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly stressed that tackling climate change is not what others want us to do, but rather that we should do it ourselves. It is the inherent requirement of China's sustainable development and the responsibility to promote the building of a community of human destiny. China has always taken the initiative to assume international responsibilities consistent with its national conditions, practiced real multilateralism, adhered to the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities", and constantly promoted the development of the global climate governance system in a more fair and reasonable direction of win-win cooperation. China actively participates in and leads climate change cooperation under the framework of existing international organizations. China firmly supports the active role of the United Nations in global environmental governance and adheres to participating in previous United Nations climate change conferences. In 2003, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established the world's first national office in China and established the UNEP representative office in China. China has also actively participated in the consultations and negotiations on climate issues under the framework of the group of twenty (G20), the international civil aviation organization, the International Maritime Organization and the BRICs conference, mobilized multi-channel synergies and promoted the multilateral process to move forward. China has taken the initiative to guide the innovation of multilateral cooperation forms, vigorously supported the green and low-carbon development of energy in developing countries, and continued South South cooperation on climate change. China has promoted the establishment of multilateral consultation mechanisms such as the Ministerial Conference of the "basic four" and the Ministerial Conference on climate action, actively coordinated the negotiating positions of the "basic four", "developing countries with similar positions" and "the group of 77 and China" on climate change, and played a constructive role in safeguarding the unity of developing countries and safeguarding the common interests of developing countries. China has one belt, one road initiative one belt, one road one belt, one road, one belt, one road, since 2013, China has always included the whole system of "ecological development" in the "one belt and one way" construction, and launched the "one belt and one way" green development partnership initiative with 28 countries, and established the "one belt and one way" green development international alliance. China's one belt, one road, total investment in 2020 has increased to 57%. The white paper on China's policies and actions to address climate change points out that since 2011, China has allocated about 1.2 billion yuan for South South cooperation to address climate change, signed 40 cooperation documents with 35 countries, and trained about 2000 officials and technicians in the field of climate change for nearly 120 developing countries. China plans to accelerate green and low-carbon transformation Actively addressing climate change is China's national strategy. In September 2020, President Xi Jinping announced that it would enhance the state's independent contribution, strive to achieve carbon peaked before 2030 and achieve carbon neutralization by 2060. This means that as the world's largest developing country, China will complete the reduction of the world's highest carbon emission intensity and realize from carbon peak to carbon neutralization in the shortest time in global history. After President Xi Jinping made a major announcement, China's words and deeds were in line with each other, and positive and effective measures were taken to implement the strategic deployment of carbon dioxide and carbon neutral. At the climate ambition summit held in December 2020, China proposed to create a new situation of win-win cooperation in Climate Governance, form a new climate governance system to the best of its ability, adhere to the new idea of green recovery, and announced a series of new initiatives independently contributed by China, which won wide praise from the international community. On September 2021, President Xi Jinping attended the general debate of the seventy-sixth United Nations General Assembly and suggested that China would no longer build new overseas coal and electricity projects. In October 2021, President Xi Jinping attended the leaders' summit of the fifteenth conference of the parties to the Convention on biological diversity, emphasizing that China will continue to promote the adjustment of industrial structure and energy structure, vigorously develop renewable energy, and accelerate the planning and construction of large-scale wind power photovoltaic base projects in desert, Gobi and desert areas. The first phase of the project with an installed capacity of about 100 million KW has been started in an orderly manner in the near future. Before cop26, China also intensively released a series of programmatic policy documents to guide China's response to climate change in the future, including the key guiding policies of the "1 + n" policy system to achieve the goal of carbon neutralization and carbon peak, which defined the timetable, road map and construction map for China to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutralization, highlighting China's role as a big country leading global climate governance. On October 24, the State Council issued the opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on completely, accurately and comprehensively implementing the new development concept and doing a good job in carbon peak and carbon neutralization. As the "1" that plays a programmatic role in the "1 + n" policy system, the opinions divides the future carbon peak and carbon neutralization work into three stages in 2025, 2030 and 2060 from the perspective of top-level design, and defines the stage objectives to be completed respectively. On October 26, the State Council issued the action plan for carbon peak by 2030. As the primary document of "n" in the "1 + n" policy system, the action plan specifically makes an overall deployment for achieving the goal of carbon peak by 2030 and puts forward "ten actions for carbon peak", which will play a leading role in many other "n" series policies planned in the future. The action plan proposes that by 2025, the proportion of China's non fossil energy consumption will reach about 20%, the energy consumption per unit of GDP will be 13.5% lower than that in 2020, and the carbon dioxide emission per unit of GDP will be 18% lower than that in 2020. On October 27, the Information Office of the State Council issued the white paper on China's policies and actions to deal with climate change. On October 28, China's national focal point of the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change formally submitted to the Convention secretariat the results of China's implementation of national independent contributions and new goals and new measures and China's long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategy in the middle of this century. Action is the key to tackling climate change. In November 1st, President Xi Jinping delivered a written speech to the COP26 world leaders summit. He put forward three important points of maintaining multilateral consensus, focusing on pragmatic actions and accelerating the transformation of green, and pointed out the key to COP26's success. President Xi Jinping emphasized that China adheres to the important concept of human and natural life community and adheres to the path of ecological priority and green low-carbon development. The "1 + n" policy system defines the timetable, road map and construction map for China to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutralization. Facing the future, China will continue to provide China's solutions and contribute China's strength to addressing climate change. Together with the international community, China will actively promote the development of the global climate governance system towards a more fair, reasonable and win-win cooperation. (outlook new era)

Edit:Ming Wu    Responsible editor:Haoxuan Qi

Source:people.cn

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