2024 Shenzhen International Low Carbon City Carbon Trading Forum was successfully held
Recently, the 2024 Carbon Peak Carbon Neutralization Forum and Shenzhen International Low Carbon City Forum officially opened. As one of the permanent parallel forums, the Carbon Trading Forum was successfully held on the day of the opening ceremony. This carbon trading forum is guided by the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment and hosted by the Shenzhen Green Exchange. With the theme of "Carbon trading helps the development of new quality productivity", it discusses the market-oriented mechanism of carbon trading to help Shenzhen's green, low-carbon and high-quality development.
The relevant person in charge of the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment pointed out that carbon trading is an effective tool to promote carbon emission reduction and an important starting point for achieving the "double carbon" goal. Shenzhen's carbon market construction has made significant progress, with market vitality gradually improving, emission reduction results being remarkable, and the pattern gradually diversified. In the next step, Shenzhen will aim to reach the international leading level in carbon emission intensity by 2030, make every effort to build a pilot city with carbon peak, actively plan the development positioning of the export-oriented carbon market, improve the green transformation marketization mechanism, and further leverage the carbon market's contribution to the pilot goal. Contribution and role.
At the forum, the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment officially released three important results, namely the Shenzhen Pollution Reduction and Carbon Reduction Coordination Index, the "White Paper on Shenzhen Carbon Finance Innovation Practice under the Double Carbon Goals", and the fourth batch of Shenzhen's Near-Zero Carbon Emission Zone Pilot list.
The Shenzhen Pollution Reduction and Carbon Reduction Synergy Index refers to a comprehensive indicator system centered on evaluating the level and effect of pollution reduction and carbon reduction synergy, reflecting the progress and effectiveness of Shenzhen's environmental protection and green and low-carbon coordinated promotion. The "White Paper on Shenzhen Carbon Finance Innovation Practice under the Double Carbon Goals" comprehensively combs and summarizes Shenzhen's achievements and experience in carbon finance innovation practice since the "Double Carbon" goal was proposed, and will provide an important window for all walks of life to understand Shenzhen's carbon finance innovation practice. Shenzhen's fourth batch of pilot projects in near-zero carbon emission zones includes a total of 24 projects, adding to the first three batches of shortlisted lists, a total of 112 projects, with an estimated emission reduction of 560,000 tons.
In addition, the forum held the unveiling ceremony of the Shenzhen Green Exchange, the launching ceremony of the Silk Road Green Label Project, the signing of strategic cooperation between the Shenzhen Green Exchange and the Beijing Green Exchange, and the signing of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macao Bay Area Carbon Inclusive Coordination Mechanism.
During the keynote speech session, Liu Ke, a foreign academician of the Australia National Academy of Engineering and dean of the School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship of Southern University of Science and Technology, interpreted the development of new productivity under the background of "double carbon". Ma Aimin, former deputy director of the National Center for Strategic Research and International Cooperation on Climate Change, and Beijing Green Mei Dewen, Vice Chairman of the Exchange, and Zhao Jianping, Vice President of BYD Group, respectively focused on the experience and practice of the carbon pricing mechanism at home and abroad, the construction and prospects of China's voluntary emission reduction market, BYD's green and low-carbon development transformation practice path and other topics will be shared.
Focusing on the theme of "Carbon Trading Supports the Development of New Quality Productivity", this forum fully demonstrated the innovative results of Shenzhen's carbon market and carbon finance, and provided ideas for the deployment of carbon trading work in Shenzhen's carbon market. In the next step, Shenzhen will make good use of the carbon trading market mechanism, continue to promote the development of carbon markets and carbon finance, uphold the concepts of open cooperation and innovative development, and improve top-level design, expand the scope of control, strictly control total targets, and add new trading varieties. Explore and demonstrate in other aspects, use carbon trading to inject strong momentum into the development of new quality productivity, and promote Shenzhen to form a more distinctive green and low-carbon development model.
