Climate policy of China

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The climate policy of China is to peak its greenhouse gas emissions before 2030 and to be carbon neutral before 2060. [1] Due to the large buildout of solar power in China and burning of coal in China the energy policy of China is closely related to its climate policy. [2] There is also policy to adapt to climate change. [3] Ding Xuexiang represented China at the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2023, and may be influential in setting climate policy. [4]

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There is a debate surrounding China's economic responsibilities in terms of climate change mitigation and efforts to mitigate climate change within China. In 2006, China surpassed the United States as the country with the highest total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rate. [5]

Actors and institutions

Since 2000, rising CO2 emissions in China and the rest of world have eclipsed the output of the United States and Europe. Total CO2 by Region.svg
Since 2000, rising CO2 emissions in China and the rest of world have eclipsed the output of the United States and Europe.
Per person, the United States generates carbon dioxide at a far faster rate than other primary regions. Per Capita CO2 by Region.svg
Per person, the United States generates carbon dioxide at a far faster rate than other primary regions.

In 2018, China established the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE). [7] : 95  A number of environmental policy functions were merged from other ministries into the MEE, including MEP functions, climate policy previously under the NDRC, and a number of environmental policy functions previously under the Ministry of Water Resources and the State Oceanic Administration. [7] : 95  Pollutant and carbon emissions trading programs were also placed within the MEE's jurisdiction. [8] : 78  In 2021, Ministry of Ecology and Environment published a White Paper on "Responding to Climate Change: China's Policies and Actions". [9]

Beginning with a joint statement on the Kyoto Protocol in Bali in December 2007, Chinese non-governmental organizations (NGOs), in cooperation with international NGOs, assumed a more prominent role in efforts to mitigate climate change within China. NGO activity in China is restricted by government controls. [10]

The Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs is attempting to persuade large GHG emitters, such as steelmakers in Hubei, to publish their emission figures. [11]

Greenhouse gas emissions

This section is an excerpt from Greenhouse gas emissions by China.[ edit ]
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China has the most total annual emissions (area of rectangle) of any nation, and has higher than average per capita emissions. [12]
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Cumulatively over time, emissions from China have caused more economic damage globally than any other nation except the U.S. [13]

China's greenhouse gas emissions are the largest of any country in the world both in production and consumption terms, and stem mainly from coal burning, including coal power, coal mining, [14] and blast furnaces producing iron and steel. [15] When measuring production-based emissions, China emitted over 14 gigatonnes (Gt) CO2eq of greenhouse gases in 2019, [16] 27% of the world total. [17] [18] When measuring in consumption-based terms, which adds emissions associated with imported goods and extracts those associated with exported goods, China accounts for 13 gigatonnes (Gt) or 25% of global emissions. [19]

These high levels of emissions are due to China's large population; the country's per person emissions have remained considerably lower than those in the developed world. [19] This corresponds to over 10.1 tonnes CO2eq emitted per person each year, slightly over the world average and the EU average but significantly lower than the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the United States, with its 17.6 tonnes per person. [19] Accounting for historic emissions, OECD countries produced four times more CO2 in cumulative emissions than China, due to developed countries' early start in industrialization. [17] [19] Overall, China is a net importer of greenhouse emissions. [20]

The targets laid out in China's nationally determined contribution in 2016 will likely be met, but are not enough to properly combat global warming. [21] China has committed to peak emissions by 2030 and net zero by 2060. [22] In order to limit warming to 1.5 degrees C coal plants in China without carbon capture must be phased out by 2045. [23] China continues to build coal-fired power stations in 2020 and promised to "phase down" coal use from 2026. [24] According to various analysis, China is estimated to overachieve its renewable energy capacity and emission reduction goals early, but long-term plans are still required to combat the global climate change and meeting the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) targets. [25] [26] [27]

Its commitment to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions has been a major force in decreasing the global cost of wind and solar power, in turn helping the use of renewable energy to rise globally. [28] : 8 

The toll on GDP

A federal financial auditing project—the 'Green GDP' -- has focused on the economic losses incurred by pollution. The project began in 2004 to incorporate the externalities of previously unaccounted-for environmental costs, but soon produced results that were much worse than anticipated. The program stopped in 2007. [29]

Emissions trading

This section is an excerpt from Chinese national carbon trading scheme.[ edit ]

The Chinese national carbon trading scheme is an intensity-based trading system for carbon dioxide emissions by China, which started operating in 2021. [30] This emission trading scheme (ETS) creates a carbon market where emitters can buy and sell emission credits. The scheme will allow carbon emitters to reduce emissions or purchase emission allowances from other emitters. Through this scheme, China will limit emissions while allowing economic freedom for emitters.

China is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG) and many major Chinese cities have severe air pollution. [31] The scheme is run by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, [30] which eventually plans to limit emissions from six of China's top carbon dioxide emitting industries. [32] In 2021 it started with its power plants, and covers 40% of China's emissions, which is 15% of world emissions. [33] China was able to gain experience in drafting and implementation of an ETS plan from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), where China was part of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). [31] China's national ETS is the largest of its kind, [33] and will help China achieve its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the Paris Agreement. [31] In July 2021, permits were being handed out for free rather than auctioned, and the market price per tonne of CO2e was around RMB 50, far less than the EU ETS and the UK ETS. [33]

The large scale of current mitigation

New apartment buildings in Hubei are commonly equipped with solar water heaters Tieshan-solar-water-heaters-0101.jpg
New apartment buildings in Hubei are commonly equipped with solar water heaters

As of 2008, China's per capita emissions of CO2 were still one-quarter of that of the US. [34] Though China continues to build emissions-intensive coal-fired power plants, its "rate of development of renewable energy is even faster". [35]

There is great interest in solar power in China. The world's market share of China's photovoltaic units manufacturers grew from approximately 1% in 2003 to 18% in 2007, [36] with one of the largest Chinese manufacturers of these devices being the Chinese solar company Suntech. [37] Although the overwhelming majority of the photovoltaic units are exported, plans are under to increase the installed capacity to at least 1,800 MW by 2020. [38] Some officials expect the plans to be significantly over-fulfilled, with the installed capacity reaching possibly as much as 10,000 megawatts by 2020. [38]

Due to the growing demand for photovoltaic electricity, more companies (Aleo Solar, Global Solar, Anwell, [39] CMC Magnetics, etc.) have entered into the photovoltaic market, which is expected to lower the cost of PV cells.

Solar water heating is already used extensively throughout the country. [40]

China also has embarked upon a 9 million acre (36,000 km2) reforestation project—the Green Wall of China—that may become the largest ecological project in history; it is projected to be finished by 2050 at a cost of up to US$8 billion. [41]

Keeping emissions growth at less than GDP growth

Considering that energy consumption in most developed countries has usually grown faster than GDP during the early stages of industrialization, it is to China's credit that while its GDP has grown by 9.5% per year over the last 27 years, its CO2 emissions have increased by only about 5.4% per year, [35] [34] meaning that its carbon intensity (its carbon emissions per unit of GDP) has decreased during that time, though it remains among the highest of any of the developed or developing nations.

Emissions contributed by multinationals in China

Chinese officials claim that they are doing a great deal that is often not visible, especially for a country as large, populous, and (rurally) undeveloped as it is. But working against that, and equally non-visible, is the role of multinational ventures in China in contributing to its emissions. It has been estimated that as of 2004, almost a quarter (23%) of China's CO2 emissions were coming from Chinese-made products destined for the West, providing an interesting perspective on China's large trade surplus. Another study shown that around 1/3 emissions from China in 2005 are due to exports. [42] Over half of those emissions driven by demand from the West are from transnationals taking advantage of China's developmental policies favouring heavy manufacturing over regions with more developed environmental laws and enforcement. This includes many of the Walmart-suppliers and other foreign-owned factories that stock department store shelves, particularly in the US,. [43]

China has buttressed its call for joint international responsibility for at least part of China's emissions, by making public, in Jan 2008, Multinationals committed 130 violations of Chinese environmental law. [44]

Unlike their counterparts in many other countries, many Chinese commuters opt for electric bicycles and electric scooters, rather than vehicles with internal combustion engines Yangzhou-WenchangGe-traffic-3417.jpg
Unlike their counterparts in many other countries, many Chinese commuters opt for electric bicycles and electric scooters, rather than vehicles with internal combustion engines

International collaboration

In the early 21st century John Kerry from the US and Xie were very important climate envoys. [45] In 2023 the US made an agreement. [46]

Debates

Opposition from provincial and local officials

However, officials in Beijing cite violations by China's own companies as well—in this case, to illustrate the enormity of the task in front of them in getting compliance for environmental regulations which they see as very progressive. Regional and local officials have been taken to task for this.

For example, in 2006, Premier Wen Jiabao issued a warning to local officials to shut down some of the plants in the most energy-intensive industries, designating at least six industries for slow-down. The following year, those same industries posted a 20.6% increase in output. [47] In 2006 as well, the federal government began banning logging in some locations in order to expand its protection of forests, and at the same time restricted the size of cities and golf courses in order to increase land use efficiency. Yet many of the local officials responsible for carrying out the new regulations essentially ignored them.[ citation needed ]

Another reason for lack of compliance is apparently because local governments now have a chunk of funding for which they are not beholden to the central government, and are motivated to protect those funding sources which pollute, but pollute profitably. [37]

As a result, SEPA's attempt to use local banks as a means of discouraging companies from carbon-intensive practices has followed a troubled path. Many local governments that have officially implemented the 'Green Credit' policy of loaning only to companies with green practices continue also to protect polluting firms that are profitable, and the banks in some provinces have yet to apply the policy at all. [48]

Economic growth

China's leadership worries that China would end up suffering a slowdown in economic growth that would result in "massive unemployment and social unrest". [49] [50] To the Chinese[ vague ], it appears ironic at best that China is being criticized for following the practice of 'pollute first, clean up later' that the Western nations themselves followed during their early stages of capital accumulation. [51]

Global Responsibility and Historical Emissions

Chinese officials argue that China has been contributing to global warming for only 30 years, while the developed countries have been doing so for 200 years. And since pollution-flagrant early stages of industrialization may have contributed to what China sees as a lack of balance of power, particularly between the US and China, [52] many Chinese officials see global warming mitigation as creating an economic burden that slows its economy and further exacerbates the unequal balance of power. [53]

Chinese officials point out that the highest per capita emissions have long been and still are in the developed countries, not in China. [54] They implied that it is the developed nations who should shoulder a comparable portion of the global cost for reversing the world's emissions, consistent with the polluter pays principle. [55]

China's climate envoy Xie Zhenhua has emphasized China’s stance that rich countries have a greater responsibility regarding climate change than China, though China has been the world’s largest carbon emitter since 2006. [56] His speech at the 2010 climate conference in South Africa conveyed this Chinese position: [57] [58]

We are developing countries. We need to develop and eradicate poverty while protecting the environment. We’ve done what we should do, but you [developed countries] haven’t. What right do you have to lecture us?

History

The provision by which China signed the Kyoto Protocol without committing to a cap was the same provision given to all developing nation signers. [34]

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