Recently, various places have put forward a carbon peak timetable. Shanghai has proposed peaking by 2025, while Shenzhen has proposed to be the first city in the Pearl River Delta to peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2025. China is striving to reach peak carbon by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. This is a major strategic decision made by the Party Central Committee and a solemn commitment by China to the world. Our Green development represents a bright future.
Beijing, the capital of the Olympic City, quietly reached a carbon peak in 2012. The assessment shows that since 2013, and particularly between 2014 and 2015, Beijing's carbon emissions have dropped significantly and that the target of peaking carbon emissions has been successfully met.
Total emissions continue to fall. The reporter has a authoritative research data, its big data shows that Beijing's carbon emissions nearly 8 years, fluctuating downward trend. After peaking in 2012, Beijing's total carbon emissions (including aviation) fell significantly between 2014 and 2015 thanks to the Clean Air Action Plan implemented since 2013. From 2016 to 2019, the rapid growth of aviation emissions led to a small increase in total emissions, but did not exceed the 2012 peak. By 2020 affected by the epidemic, air transport and other areas of energy consumption and emissions dropped significantly, the city's total carbon emissions continue to decline.
Olympic city, green development. At the beginning of this century, Beijing took the opportunity of holding the 2008 Olympic Games to form the development strategy of“Humanistic Beijing, Science and Technology Beijing, Green Beijing”. Relevant research shows that the carbon emissions of major cities in the world have reached a peak, there are about six requirements: a high energy efficiency, a per capita GDP of more than US $20,000, a peak and stable population, an urbanisation rate of more than 75 per cent, a tertiary industry of more than 65 per cent, and a high demand for environmental quality, beijing already has the ingredients. At the same time, Beijing over the years to promote coordinated emission reduction of pollutants and greenhouse gases, environmental quality continues to improve, energy conservation and carbon reduction has always been in the forefront of the country.
Urban Development, profound transformation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the ecological civilization construction of our country has undergone historical, turning and overall changes. In the new Beijing General Plan and the outline of the 12th and 13th five-year plans, the overall concept of green and low-carbon circular development and high-standard targets and tasks have been established, from the financial, scientific and technological industries, with low energy consumption, advanced technology, high value-added features. By 2020, energy consumption and carbon emissions per 10,000 yuan of GDP will fall to 0.21 tonnes of standard coal and 0.42 tonnes of carbon dioxide, the highest levels in the country.
At present, Beijing's research on“Carbon neutrality action platform” has matured and will be released soon. It is understood that Beijing proposed carbon neutrality in 2050, will be ten years ahead of the national target. In other words, after 30 years of struggle, the capital will be the first to achieve carbon neutrality. In the future, Beijing will gradually“Electrify” its end-use energy and“Decarbonise” its power supply. It will continue to promote“Oil-for-electricity” for motor vehicles. By 2050, urban transport will have nearly zero emissions, almost zero emissions were achieved in the construction sector.
