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

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.

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