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China starts soliciting public opinion on voluntary greenhouse gas trading rules

July 10, 2023


Abstract : China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment has begun to solicit public opinion on a set of draft rules regulating the trading of voluntary greenhouse gas emissions reduction, as part of efforts to achieve the country's carbon peaking and neutrality goals.

This photo taken on March 3, 2023 shows a view of the photovoltaic power base in Dalad Banner, Erdos, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Bei He)

BEIJING, July 8 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment has begun to solicit public opinion on a set of draft rules regulating the trading of voluntary greenhouse gas emissions reduction, as part of efforts to achieve the country's carbon peaking and neutrality goals.

As the fundamental system to support the operation of a national voluntary emissions reduction trading market, the rules specify basic requirements for such trading and relevant activities as well as the rights and responsibilities of market participants.

The launch of the market will encourage a wider range of industries and enterprises to take part in greenhouse gas emissions reduction, which also comes in response to increasing requirements on carbon emissions in global trade and investment activities, according to the ministry.

China's national carbon emission trading market is currently only open to thermal power plants. Though it is set to gradually cover other key emitters, there are still many industries like renewable energy and forestry carbon sink that cannot enjoy economic returns for emission reduction via market mechanisms, the ministry said.

After the market launch, all entities can voluntarily develop greenhouse gas reduction projects in accordance with relevant technical standards, and the reduction outcomes of these projects, once quantified and certified via scientific methods, can be traded on the market for corresponding benefits.

China will work to launch a national voluntary greenhouse gas emissions reduction trading market this year, Liu Youbin, spokesperson for the ecology and environment ministry said last week. The China Certified Emissions Reduction will be the market's trading product. 

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