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Accelerate the establishment of a "dual carbon" policy system

-- Actively yet prudently promoting peak carbon neutrality

Scanning the two-dimensional code in the carbon label of a reconstituted bamboo flooring product, the carbon emission equivalent of various links such as transportation process, production and processing process, input of additives, carbon storage accounting is clear at a glance, and the product carbon footprint is clearly presented. The carbon footprint assessment report associated with the two-dimensional code not only contains the introduction of the company and the product, but also includes the life cycle carbon footprint assessment method of the product, carbon label e-certificate and other content. This is the innovative development of bamboo product carbon label in Anji County, Zhejiang Province, which provides a new path for achieving industrial carbon reduction, enterprise carbon reduction, and product carbon sequestration.

What is a carbon footprint? Product carbon footprint is a kind of carbon emission accounting, generally refers to the total carbon emissions generated by the product from raw material processing, transportation, production to factory sales and other processes, and is an important indicator to measure the green and low-carbon level of production enterprises and products. Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission and other five departments jointly issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the establishment of Product carbon footprint Management System", made systematic deployment of key tasks, and proposed the goal of the basic establishment of the national product carbon identification certification system by 2025. The establishment of a carbon footprint management system is conducive to promoting industrial upgrading, promoting green consumption, and enhancing the competitiveness of foreign trade products, and is an important part of accelerating the construction of a "two-carbon" policy system, which will provide strong support for achieving the goal of carbon neutrality.

In recent years, China's "double carbon" work has achieved positive results, carbon peak carbon neutral "1+N" policy system has been completed and continued to implement. To further tap the carbon reduction potential of the consumption side and fully stimulate the endogenous power of the low-carbon transformation of the market, a basic work is to speed up the formulation of product carbon footprint accounting rules and standards, establish a unified and standardized product carbon identification certification system at the national level, and conduct quantitative evaluation of the green and low-carbon attributes of consumer goods. Accelerating the establishment of a product carbon footprint management system can not only help consumers clearly and intuitively understand the carbon emission data of products, but also help green finance, carbon inclusion and other policy tools play a better role.

Sample photo of Sanming forest ticket and Sanming forestry carbon ticket Source: People's Daily Online

To achieve peak carbon neutrality is a broad and profound economic and social systemic change, which cannot be achieved easily. From further improving the "double control" system of energy consumption, to perfecting the "double carbon" standard, and building a unified and standardized carbon emission statistical accounting system; From improving laws and regulations, improving fiscal, taxation, pricing, investment, and financial policies, to giving full play to the role of market mechanisms, improving carbon pricing mechanisms, and strengthening the coordination of carbon emission rights trading, energy rights trading, and electricity trading... Adhere to the concept of the system, strengthen the integration of policy systems and the cohesion and coordination of policy measures, play a good policy "combination", so that the front and back echo, cohesion, concerted efforts, the formation of a joint force, in order to ensure that the "double carbon" work is solid and effective.

Of course, overall consideration can not "eyebrow beard", but should pay attention to grasp the main contradictions and the main aspects of contradictions, grasp important areas and key links, with key breakthroughs to drive the overall promotion, and achieve key breakthroughs in the overall promotion. For example, in response to the fact that carbon emissions from energy activities account for more than 80% of the overall carbon emissions, China has carried out the "three reforms" of coal power energy conservation and carbon reduction, flexibility transformation, and heating transformation, and built the world's largest clean power generation system. Another example is to strengthen scientific and technological innovation, which is the key support for promoting the "double carbon" work, and form a green technology equipment manufacturing system covering energy saving, water saving, environmental protection, and renewable energy. Only by constructing the four beams and eight pillars of the policy system from the top-level design level, and grasping the key points to achieve one child and all the work can we drive the overall work with breakthroughs in important areas and key links, and promote the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.

"Good air can be sold for money!" Zhang Linshun, former Party branch secretary of Changkou Village, Gaotang Town, Sanming County, Fujian Province, who received the village collective's first carbon coupon trading dividend, said happily. Up to now, Sanming has issued forest tickets of 630 million yuan, benefiting 78,000 forest farmers, and driven carbon exchange transactions of nearly 30 million yuan through carbon tickets, greatly enhancing the enthusiasm of local forest farmers to protect forest resources and ecology. One point of deployment, nine points of implementation. Ensuring the implementation of the "double carbon" policy system, so that it is translated into more people's real sense of gain, happiness, and security, can achieve the "double carbon" goal to gather a greater force.