Recently, at the launching meeting of the “carbon neutral green productivity forum”, Du Xiangwan, academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering and honorary director of the national climate change expert committee, said that “double carbon” will lead China to implement low-carbon transformation, promote industrial restructuring, and build a safe, efficient, economic, green and low-carbon energy system. This needs to rely on technological innovation to make up for shortcomings and help achieve the “double carbon” development goal.
Du Xiangwan said that “double carbon” will lead China to implement low-carbon transformation step by step and in time, strengthen the construction of ecological civilization, promote carbon reduction and synergy, make the improvement of ecological environment from quantitative change to qualitative change, and realize high-quality development.
At the same time, the “double carbon” goal will promote the adjustment of China’s industrial structure, timely curb the impulse to develop “double high” industries, promote the progress of strategic emerging industries, high-tech industries and modern service industries, stimulate a huge amount of green financial investment, bring new economic growth points and new employment opportunities, and expand green and low-carbon industries.
Du Xiangwan believes that the “double carbon” goal can promote energy conservation, improve energy efficiency and gradually optimize the energy structure. Promote technological progress, process innovation, energy conservation and emission reduction in power, industry, transportation and construction industries, and bring new energy, new technology, Shenzhen New Industries Biomedical Engineering Co.Ltd(300832) and new economy.
“The ‘double carbon’ goal will promote China’s economic and social progress and work with countries around the world to deal with climate change.” He said.
“When the economy grows to a certain stage, the total amount of carbon emissions will not increase. This is’ reaching the peak ‘. This is a general law in the process of modernization of all countries.” Du Xiangwan stressed that it is necessary to understand the regularity of carbon peak and further move towards carbon neutralization, which is the requirement of the law of human sustainable development.
He believes that achieving the “double carbon” goal requires a new understanding of China’s energy and resource endowment. In addition to fossil energy, China is rich in non fossil energy, especially renewable energy resources, which is an important part of China’s energy resource endowment and a prerequisite for China’s energy transformation and development. At present, China has great potential for renewable energy development. While promoting the development of wind energy and Cecep Solar Energy Co.Ltd(000591) , we should also pay attention to the development of biomass energy, hydropower, geothermal energy, waste heat and waste heat heating.
“While developing a high proportion of renewable energy, we should emphasize the complementarity of multiple energy, establish first and then break down, coordinate and complement fossil and non fossil energy, and build a new power system to make China’s energy system safe, efficient, economical and low-carbon.” Said Du Xiangwan.
Referring to the difficulties faced in achieving the “double carbon” goal, Du Xiangwan believes that carbon neutralization is to balance the remaining emissions after emission reduction with the absorption and utilization of carbon sink relics increased by human activities through the reduction of the absolute amount of greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide. At present, China’s industry is biased towards coal, energy is biased towards coal, efficiency is low, and path dependence on high-carbon development is inertia. We should rely on high-quality technological innovation to make up for the shortcomings of China’s economic development.
Du Xiangwan stressed that achieving the goal of “double carbon” is not only a complex systematic project, but also a scientific transformation process. It is highly policy oriented and needs to grasp the rhythm, be positive and stable. We should not only prevent the simplification of “one size fits all”, but also prevent backwardness and ineffective investment caused by poor transformation. We should do a good job of the “double carbon” goal and deeply promote economic and social change and progress.
“Carbon peaking is the peak reached at the same time of high-quality economic development. It is the peak achieved by the gradual reduction of carbon intensity caused by the optimization of industrial structure and technological progress. It is not to climb the peak, let alone rush to the peak, but to aim at the peak of carbon neutralization.” Du Xiangwan said that carbon neutralization is a new engine for China’s economic and social development. We should create a path with cost-effective, economic and social benefits, and do a good job in the top-level design and road map to achieve carbon neutralization.
