Lu Shize, Deputy Director of the Department of Climate Change Response of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment: New projects and new emission reductions in the voluntary emission reduction market will enter the application registration window period
On July 21, Lu Shize, deputy director of the Department of Climate Change Response of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said at the sub-forum of the China Carbon Market Conference 2024 with the theme of "Building a Voluntary Emission Reduction Trading Market and Promoting the Participation of the Whole Society" that the national greenhouse gases are voluntary. In the emission reduction trading market, with the further improvement of relevant supporting systems and the approval and release of the first batch of approval and verification agencies, new projects and new emission reductions will enter the application registration window.
Department of Climate Change Response, Ministry of Ecology and Environment
Deputy Director Lu Shize
Lu Shize introduced that in the process of building a voluntary emission reduction trading market, international experience has been fully learned, and at the same time, we are committed to building a voluntary emission reduction trading market with integrity, fairness, transparency, high-quality and Chinese characteristics based on national conditions. This can be reflected in emphasizing information disclosure and highlighting voluntary attributes; injecting policy coordination and optimizing knowledge areas; forming departmental linkages and strengthening quality supervision.
Lu Shize said that building a voluntary emission reduction trading market is a long-term and complex systematic project, and there is a long way to go. In the next step, we will adhere to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability and continue to promote various aspects of the construction of a voluntary emission reduction trading market. work.
The first is to further expand market support areas, build a methodological system for my country's voluntary emission reduction trading market with high standards, and establish normalized methodological submission channels. Last year, 361 were publicly selected, and four were first released after layer by layer screening. In the future, the selection mechanism must be normalized, open, and institutionalized, and methodology should continue to be carried out. It is recommended to openly solicit and evaluate the selection work, and encourage the whole society to explore and study more methods that align with international rules and are based on our country's national conditions. At the same time, a working mechanism for regular evaluation of methodologies will be established, combined with my country's "double carbon" process and the development and progress of relevant industries, and the adaptation conditions of methodologies, emission reduction accounting methods and additionality demonstration methods will be updated in a timely manner to ensure the scientific nature of the system. and operability.
The second is to establish and improve the supervision mechanism for data quality, provide the society with high-credit certified voluntary emission reduction products, cooperate with relevant departments to establish normalization, supervision assistance, and law enforcement supervision working mechanisms, and improve the informatization and intelligence of data quality supervision. Level, strictly carry out the approval and approval of access qualifications of approval and verification agencies and the management of employee qualifications. Strictly control, strictly investigate, and severely punish voluntary emission reduction projects and emission reduction fraud.
The third is to carry out in-depth international exchanges and cooperation on voluntary emission reduction trading mechanisms, and study and formulate relevant management measures for cross-border carbon trading in conjunction with international rules such as the Article 6 market mechanism of the Paris Agreement and international aviation carbon offset and emission reduction plans. Promote bilateral or multilateral cooperation based on voluntary emission reduction trading, explore and expand the use scenarios of certified voluntary emission reductions, and enhance the international recognition of certified voluntary emission reductions.
