Xie Zhenhua, Special Representative of China's Climate Change Affairs, delivered a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the Global Climate Action Summit.

Xie Zhenhua Attends Global Climate Action Summit: China will honor 100% commitment to climate change

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13 (Reporter Yu Yu) China’s Special Representative for Climate Change and Co-Chairman of the Global Climate Action Summit Xie Zhenhua said in San Francisco on the 13th that China will take concrete actions to ensure that 100% of the climate change announced Commitment to make greater contributions to global green and low carbon development.

At the opening ceremony of the Global Climate Action Summit, Xie Zhenhua said that the global challenges of climate change are becoming more and more urgent. No one in the world can be immune to it. The global destiny is common. Countries must strengthen cooperation and achieve win-win results. Implement the Convention and the Paris Agreement, promote global green and low-carbon transformation, and build a community of human destiny.

Xie Zhenhua pointed out that we have tried to follow the green, low-carbon and circular development path in line with national conditions and adopted a series of measures to optimize industrial structure, energy conservation and energy efficiency, develop non-fossil energy, increase forest carbon sinks, and build a national carbon emissions trading market. Significant results.

In 2017, China's carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP fell by 46% from 2005, exceeding the upper limit of 40%-45% of carbon intensity by 2020; non-fossil energy accounted for 13.8% of primary energy. At the end of 2017, China could The installed capacity of renewable energy power generation has reached 650 million kilowatts, of which wind power installed capacity has completed 76% of the 2020 target. Solar installations have already completed the 2020 target ahead of schedule, and it is expected to achieve the target of 15% non-fossil energy by 2020; forest accumulation The volume reached 15.1 billion cubic meters in 2015 and has exceeded the target of forest stocks by 2020. The national carbon market was launched on the pilot basis at the end of 2017, first covering the power generation industry, including more than 1,700 enterprises, with emissions exceeding 3 billion. Ton.

Xie Zhenhua said that we will step up the implementation of existing policies and take further measures in science and technology innovation, carbon market, green finance, climate legislation, coordinated climate change and air pollution management, and South-South cooperation to ensure 100% cash is announced to China. Committed to climate change commitments, strive for carbon emissions peaks around 2030 and peak as early as possible.

He pointed out that China's local governments, enterprises, non-profit organizations, and research institutions have been taking active and powerful actions. Nearly 100 cities have set peak targets, and some companies have established low-carbon alliances to practice low-carbon development. Some foundations, non-profit organizations, and research institutions in China launched the “Global Action on Climate Change” initiative at this summit to actively raise funds to support the Chinese government in implementing its own contribution, developing South-South cooperation on climate change, and building a green “One Belt, One Road” And called on all sectors of China and the global community to work together to implement the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.

He emphasized that China is willing to strengthen cooperation with all parties and make greater contributions to promoting the construction of a global ecological civilization and building a clean and beautiful world.

Hosted by the California government, the Global Climate Action Summit aims to promote climate change action at the subnational level.