Strive to achieve a win-win situation for environmental pollution prevention and climate change

The Central Economic Work Conference requires "to correctly understand and grasp the carbon neutrality of carbon peaking", and put forward that "achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality is an inherent requirement to promote high-quality development.

Global warming caused by carbon dioxide-based greenhouse gas emissions is a serious threat to human survival and sustainable development, and is one of the major global challenges facing human beings today

my country faces dual pressures to achieve carbon neutrality and prevent and control environmental pollution

Achieving carbon neutrality is a grand and systematic project with extremely arduous tasks and severe challenges

At present, China's secondary industry has a large proportion, and problems such as high energy consumption, high emissions, and low efficiency coexist, making it difficult to transform and upgrade

Achieving carbon neutrality has the same effect on strengthening ecological environment protection

Climate change and ecological environment change are closely related, and the two influence each other

From the perspective of the production process of greenhouse gases and major pollutants, the "carbon" that causes climate warming and the "carbon" of environmental pollution have the same root and the same origin, mainly from the combustion and utilization of fossil fuels

For example, electricity and heat, industry, transportation, and construction, as the most important energy consumption areas in China, are not only the main emission sources of greenhouse gases, but also the main emission sources of air pollutants

Under the guidance of the carbon neutrality goal, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment proposed to take pollution reduction and carbon reduction synergy as the general starting point, improve the quality of the ecological environment as the core, and actively promote the response to climate change in terms of strategic planning, laws and regulations, and evaluation systems.

Pay attention to the environmental problems in the development of new energy

Vigorously developing new energy, reducing the proportion of fossil energy use, and changing the energy structure are the core ways to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality

It is particularly noteworthy that China's wind energy and solar energy have begun to enter the stage of large-scale development and utilization

(Author: Jiang Guibin The author is a researcher at the Eco-Environmental Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences)