The National Greenhouse Gas Voluntary Emission Reduction Trading Market was launched Ding Xuexiang attended the launching ceremony

The launching ceremony of the national greenhouse gas voluntary emission reduction trading market was held in Beijing on the morning of the 22nd. Ding Xuexiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended the event and announced the launch of the national greenhouse gas voluntary emission reduction trading market.

At the launching ceremony, Ding Xuexiang and everyone watched the theme film on the construction of the national greenhouse gas voluntary emission reduction trading market and the live market transaction. Relevant responsible comrades of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the State Administration for Market Regulation, and the Beijing Municipal People's Government spoke one after another. The heads of four project development units, including Hebei Saihanba Machinery Forest Farm, China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGNPC), State Power Investment Corporation (), and the Third Institute of Oceanography of the Ministry of Natural Resources, signed the Voluntary Emission Reduction Project Development and Emission Reduction Trading Compliance Initiative. Relevant departments and local responsible comrades, representatives of carbon emission trading institutions and others attended the launching ceremony.

The establishment of a national voluntary greenhouse gas emission reduction trading market is an institutional innovation to mobilize the whole society to participate in greenhouse gas emission reduction actions, which is conducive to promoting the formation of a national carbon market system in which the mandatory carbon market and the voluntary carbon market are complementary and interconnected, and helping to achieve the goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality.