Content summary:Xie Zhenhua, China’s special envoy for climate change affairs, gave a detailed explanation of China’s methane emission control actions during the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on the 4th, responding to external doubts about China’s methane emission control field.
Xie Zhenhua, China’s special envoy for climate change affairs, gave a detailed explanation of China’s methane emission control actions during the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on the 4th, responding to external doubts about China’s methane emission control field.
On the same day, the COP28 China Corner held a side event on “China’s Methane Emission Control Efforts, Progress and Opportunities”. Xie Zhenhua responded here to the outside world’s doubts about the late introduction of China’s overall methane emission control plan.
On November 7 this year, 11 departments including the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China released the “Methane Emission Control Action Plan” (hereinafter referred to as the plan). Xie Zhenhua pointed out that before the plan was introduced, although China did not have an overall implementation plan, it had actively taken many measures in various fields such as coal, oil and gas, agriculture, and urban waste treatment. “We don’t treat it (methane) as a waste, we use it as a resource.”
Xie Zhenhua emphasized that it is not that there is no emission control plan, but that work has not been done. China has actually done a lot of work.
As the second largest greenhouse gas in the world, methane has the characteristics of high warming potential and short life. It mainly comes from coal, oil and gas production, agriculture, waste treatment and other fields. According to the assessment report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global warming potential (or warming effect) of methane is 84 times that of carbon dioxide on a 20-year scale. As the international community has paid increasing attention to non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gases such as methane in the past two years, methane emission control has also become one of the core issues in climate negotiations.
Xie Zhenhua explained that the above action plan is China’s first comprehensive and specialized methane emission control policy document. It is the top-level design and systematic deployment of China’s methane emission control work in the future. It not only has important guiding significance for further controlling methane emissions. , will also have an important impact on promoting high-quality economic and social development.
Xie Zhenhua responded that China will do this work step by step according to its own national conditions and at its own pace. “We must insist on the sustainability of methane operations. This is China’s unswerving strategic determination.”
He said that in the future, China will work hard on methane emission control in four aspects: first, to comprehensively improve the basic capabilities of methane emission control; second, to promote methane emission control work in key areas such as energy, agriculture, and waste treatment; third, to provide support for methane emission control. Provide incentive support; fourth, mobilize relevant departments and local industry enterprises to actively participate.
Original title: Xie Zhenhua explains in detail China’s methane emission control actions in response to external doubts
2023-12-05 00:29:41
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