Sichuan Issues Guiding Opinions on Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality for Provincial Enterprises

Recently, the Sichuan Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission issued the "Guiding Opinions on the Peak and Carbon Neutrality of Provincial Enterprises" (hereinafter referred to as the "Guiding Opinions"), which clearly put forward seven key tasks such as promoting the accumulation of state-owned capital in the green and low-carbon fields

The “Guiding Opinions” pointed out that, conscientiously implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council and the work arrangements of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, and focus on the overall goal of achieving carbon peaks by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060.

The "Guiding Opinions" emphasized that, in promoting the accumulation of state-owned capital in the green and low-carbon fields, provincial enterprises should incorporate carbon peak and carbon neutralization work into the "14th Five-Year" development plan, promote industrial ecologicalization and ecological industrialization, and make progress.

In promoting low-carbon transformation and development in key areas, we must focus on energy, manufacturing, construction, transportation, and service industries

In promoting the innovation and development of green finance, it is necessary to coordinate the use of various green financial tools and encourage enterprises to participate in the innovation of various green financial tools such as green credit, green bonds (such as carbon neutral bonds), green funds, green guarantees, and carbon finance.

In terms of strengthening dynamic monitoring and information disclosure of carbon emissions, provincial enterprises should take the lead in fulfilling their social responsibilities, establish and improve mechanisms for carbon emissions statistics, monitoring, and information disclosure, and actively accept social supervision

In terms of supporting the construction of the environmental resource trading market, Sichuan will focus on relying on the Sichuan United Environmental Exchange to accelerate the construction of an environmental resource trading platform, and strive to build a western carbon emission trading center, a western environmental trading center and an important national environmental resource trading market

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It is worth mentioning that the "Guiding Opinions" clearly stated that Sichuan will establish and improve the incentive and restraint mechanism of provincial-owned enterprises' carbon peak and carbon neutral performance appraisal, and incorporate the completion of relevant work into the enterprise's business performance appraisal

Among them, the investment made by the provincial enterprises to achieve the carbon peak and carbon neutral goal in the current year is included in the current profit and loss, and it can be assessed and added back as the profit after being determined