-- Following Chinese President Xi Jinping's recent announcement that China aims to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060, the country's environmental authority has taken quick action to explore the path to materialize it.
-- The Ministry of Ecology and Environment will set carbon intensity target for the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025) in accordance with the targets announced by Xi, and draw up specific plans to tackle climate change for the next five years.
-- The ministry will continue to control fossil fuel consumption, vigorously develop non-fossil energy, deepen energy and price reforms, form a strong synergy in the efforts to address climate change, effectively enhance climate governance capacity to achieve a "green recovery."
by Xinhua writers Wang Wen, Gao Jing and Cheng Yunjie
BEIJING, Oct. 18 -- Following Chinese President Xi Jinping's recent announcement of a carbon neutrality goal, China's environmental authority has taken quick action to explore the path to materialize it, shedding light on the country's further commitment to green development and global combat against climate change.
China aims to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060, Xi announced at the general debate of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Aerial photo taken on April 26, 2020 shows power-generating windmill turbines in Weining County, southwest China's Guizhou Province. (Xinhua/Tao Liang)
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Xi's statement has put forward higher requirements for China's efforts to tackle climate change and seek green and low-carbon development as well as ecological advancement in the longer term, according to Sun Jinlong, Party chief of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE), and Huang Runqiu, minister of ecology and environment.
The goals should be taken as new opportunities to promote the transformation and upgrading of the economic, energy and industrial structures, promote the innovation of new technologies and new forms of business, and build an economic system featuring green, low-carbon and circular development, the two officials said in a co-authored article published on the Guangming Daily.
They said the ministry will set carbon intensity target for the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025) in accordance with the targets announced by Xi, and draw up specific plans to tackle climate change for the next five years.
