Guiding opinions on coordinating and strengthening the work related to climate change and ecological environmental protection

Country / jurisdiction: People's Republic of China · Year: 2021 · Status: In force · Level: National · Type: Voluntary

The Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) issued guidelines to coordinate and strengthen climate and environmental planning, with the goal of reaching a peak in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030, and carbon neutrality by 2060. The report includes the following opinions:

Strengthening national strategy by integrating climate and environmental tasks into national and provincial economic policy;

Coordinating the formulation of the Long-term Plan for Building a Beautiful China, National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy 2035 and action plan for peaking CO2 emissions before 2030;

Improving the realization of synergies from reducing pollution and reducing carbon;

Integrating environmental statistics with greenhouse gas inventory reporting, including the opening up of energy consumption statistics from high-emitting enterprises;

Encouraging learning across China from best practice in pilot and demonstration projects;

Increasing the funding to support better statistical accounting, publicity, technology, and decision making.

Official source: http://www.mee.gov.cn/xxgk2018/xxgk/xxgk03/202101/t20210113_817221.html