Forestry carbon sink subscription alternative restoration Wenzhou Lucheng explores the solution of responsibility for damage to multiple ecological environments

In the case of compensation for ecological and environmental damage, it is often encountered that there is no space for replanting at the original site, or it is difficult to achieve the expected restoration effect by paying compensation. Ruian State-owned Assets Investment Group Co., Ltd. and other departments have completed the first forestry carbon sink subscription replacement restoration in Wenzhou.

In a recent case of an enterprise in Lucheng changing the use of forest land without authorization, the forest area that should be restored by the enterprise involved in the case is 522.13 square meters, under the guidance of the ecological environment department, the enterprise understands the carbon sink subscription compensation mechanism and voluntarily subscribes for 33.06 tons of forest carbon sink project emission reduction through the Zhejiang (Lishui) forestry carbon sink trading platform to make up for the loss of forest ecosystem services caused by its behavior.

It is reported that this is the city's first case in which a compensation obligor voluntarily subscribes to forestry carbon sinks instead of ecological restoration, and it also marks that Lucheng has embarked on a substantial innovation road in handling resource and environmental cases. According to the relevant person in charge of the Lucheng Branch, the compensation method for ecological and environmental damage of the type of forest land damage is generally to pay compensation directly or indirectly replant and reforest. However, in the replanting model, it takes decades for newly planted trees to regain their previous ecological function. "The subscription of carbon sinks not only fully considers the economy, rationality and feasibility of the compensation obligor to fulfill the responsibility of ecological restoration, but also enriches the performance of the liability for ecological and environmental damage, and can guide more people and units to actively practice the concept of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and achieve the organic unity of legal and social effects. ”

Forestry carbon sequestration refers to the process, activities and mechanisms that absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through artificial afforestation and forest management, and combine it with policy management and carbon sequestration trading. The increased carbon sink is additional, meets the corresponding methodological requirements, and can be used for carbon emission offsetting and voluntary reduction after being verified by a third party and reviewed by the competent authority

Row trading. In April 2022, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Supreme People's Court and other departments issued the Administrative Provisions on Compensation for Ecological and Environmental Damage, which clearly affirmed that the parties can replace the liability for ecological and environmental damage by subscribing to forestry carbon sinks.

With the core principle of "carbon reduction, pollution reduction, and green expansion", Wenzhou will continue to try a variety of ecological optimal solutions in the next step, promote the coordinated development of carbon sink subscription and ecological protection compensation mechanism, and make the concept of "repair by the destroyer and compensation by the damage" more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and realize the benign interaction of "emission reduction" and "income increase".