Ministry of Ecology and Environment: The national carbon market launched a one -year carbon emission quota transaction of 194 million tons

On July 21, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment held a routine press conference. Cover Journalist Dai Rui Photography

Cover Journalist Dai Rui

On July 21, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment held a routine press conference. At the press conference, a spokesman for the Ministry of Environment, a spokesman for the Ministry of Environment, introduced that the carbon market in the country has been stable in the past year since the start of the country. As of July 15, the cumulative trading volume of carbon emission quotas was 194 million tons, with a cumulative turnover of 8.492 billion yuan.

"National carbon market is an important policy tool to implement carbon peak carbon neutrality and goals, and it is an important engine to promote green and low -carbon development." According to Liu Youbin, the national carbon market officially launched on July 16, 2021. The first performance cycle was included in a total of 2,162 key emission units in the power generation industry, with an annual coverage of about 4.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

Liu Youbin said that the Ministry of Ecology and Environment attaches great importance to the construction of the national carbon emission rights trading market, actively and steadily promotes various tasks such as institutional systems, technical specifications, infrastructure construction, and capacity building, and promotes positive progress in the national carbon market construction. Initially build a national carbon market system, and formed an integrated management framework for "quota distribution -data management -transaction supervision -law enforcement inspection -support platform".

According to Liu Youbin, the carbon market incentive and constraints have initially emerged. For the first time, the market mechanism has been implemented to the enterprise throughout the country, which has enhanced the low -carbon development awareness of "carbon discharge cost, carbon reduction with income", and effectively exerts the carbon fixed price function. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment has severely cracking down on carbon emissions data. Organize the quality supervision and assistance of the national carbon emissions report quality, and publicize the typical cases of carbon market data fraud to the society, which effectively played a warning deterrent role. The carbon market has become an important window to show my country's active response to climate change. The national carbon market is not only a policy tool for controlling greenhouse gas emissions in my country, but also provides reference for the establishment of the carbon market for developing countries. At the same time, it has played an important role in promoting the global carbon pricing mechanism and has received widespread attention from the international community.

"Building the national carbon market is a complex systematic project, a pioneering cause from scratch, and is still in its infancy." Liu Youbin said that in the next step, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will adhere to the national carbon market as a work positioning of gaseous gas emissions policy tools. The first is to continuously strengthen the national carbon market laws and regulations and policy systems, actively promote the introduction of the "Interim Regulations on the Management of Carbon Emissions Transactions", and improve the supporting trading system and related technical specifications. The second is to strengthen data quality supervision and operating management level, establish and improve the management mechanism of information disclosure and credit reporting, and increase punishment for illegal and illegal acts. The third is to continue to strengthen market function construction, gradually expand the coverage of the carbon market industry in the country, and enrich trading entities, transaction varieties and transaction methods.

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