Our article: Some thoughts on promoting self-reliance and self-reliance in green and low-carbon technology

The National Ecological and Environmental Protection Conference emphasized: "We must strengthen scientific and technological support and promote self-reliance and self-reliance in green and low-carbon technologies." At present, opportunities and challenges coexist in my country's ecological civilization construction, and there is a real need to achieve self-reliance and self-reliance in green and low-carbon technologies.

my country's great achievements in the construction of ecological civilization that have attracted worldwide attention are inseparable from the strong support of the innovative development of green and low-carbon science and technology. At the same time, the construction of ecological civilization still faces many challenges. The industrial structure is still biased, energy demand will continue to maintain rigid growth, the foundation for stable and improved ecological and environmental quality is not yet solid, and the superposition of old and new pollutants has become a continuous improvement of environmental quality. difficulty. Frequent extreme weather events pose new challenges to the national ecological environment and comprehensive green transformation security. This requires us to strengthen green and low-carbon scientific and technological innovation support for the construction of ecological civilization and solve new problems with new ideas and new technologies on the new journey.

Green development is an inevitable requirement for the construction of ecological civilization and represents the transformation direction of today's science and technology and industry. Green and low-carbon technology itself should be green and low-carbon in technology, and can promote ecological and environmental protection, energy conservation, emission reduction and carbon reduction. It can also promote the transformation of traditional industries into a green cycle and low-carbon direction, and traditional productivity into new quality. A leading and disruptive technology for productivity change. Practice has proved that key core technologies cannot be obtained, bought, or obtained. Green and low-carbon technologies must be self-reliant and self-reliant to ensure safe development, carry out core technology research, and cannot be controlled by others in key technologies. With green and low-carbon as the goal, innovation as the first driving force, making green a common form and making transformation safer, we can grasp the path, method, rhythm, intensity and initiative of ecological civilization construction and the realization of the "double carbon" goal. To promote self-reliance and self-reliance in green and low-carbon technologies, the author puts forward the following suggestions.

Self-reliance and self-reliance of talents is the foundation for self-reliance and self-reliance in science and technology.Self-improvement in science and technology begins with self-improvement in talents, and cultivating strategic talents is the key. Innovation-driven is essentially talent-driven, and strategic talent resources should be given priority. Achieving self-reliance and self-reliance in green and low-carbon science and technology has put forward higher requirements for the construction of a team of scientific and technological talents and high-skilled talents. We should independently cultivate strategic talents who have a cutting-edge vision of international science and technology and can propose new theories, open up new fields, and explore new paths based on the urgent and long-term needs of national development. Accelerate the cultivation of new workers in the field of green and low-carbon science and technology, making them the most active and creative elements in new productivity, with higher education levels and labor skills, more advanced values and innovative research capabilities.

Focus on original sources and strengthen green and low-carbon basic research. Solving key technical problems from the source and the bottom is the fundamental requirement for green and low-carbon technology to be self-reliant. Starting from the strategic layout, industrial needs and practical applications of national and social development, we focus on major basic scientific issues to carry out systematic research. Adhere to exploring the laws of interaction between man and nature, focus on improving the diversity and stability of ecosystems, and strengthen integrated protection and system governance research. Focus on major theories of the ecosystem, climate change, the generation and emission management of greenhouse gases, and new pollutants, carry out basic theoretical research on their environmental hazards and mechanisms of action on human health, and support system integration innovation. Technical standards have a guiding, leading and fundamental role and are very important for strengthening basic research on green and low-carbon science and technology. Research on the theoretical system of ecological and environmental technical standards for pollution reduction, carbon reduction, green expansion and growth should be accelerated.

Cross-integration and collaboration to solve "stuck neck" technical problems with the advancement of basic research.Multi-disciplinary cross-integration and collaboration is the key to solving green and low-carbon "stuck neck" technical problems. With the continuous deepening of the construction of ecological civilization and the battle against pollution, problems such as the difficulty of managing complex ecological and environmental issues, the dispersion of interdisciplinary scientific research forces, and insufficient scientific and technological support for key issues have become increasingly prominent. It is necessary to systematically identify the "stuck neck" technical problems in the green and low-carbon field, break through ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss, development of technologies to deal with climate change,"water-soil-gas-solid" composite pollution and coordinated emission reduction of multiple pollutants, and innovative technologies in the fields of pollutant monitoring and early warning management, ocean heat and acidification, nuclear and radiation safety, and industry low-carbon-negative carbon technology development. Accelerate the transformation of science and technology, strengthen the construction of green and intelligent digital ecological civilization, and build an ecological and environmental intelligent digital twin system that integrates ecological and environmental data and governance systems. From monitoring to decision-making, from accurate analysis of correlation traceability to accurate prediction, from pre-judgment Coordination to scientific decision-making, build a modern environmental governance system coordinated by "technology-governance-management", and form a large-scale ecological environment efficient simulation and intelligent intelligence.

Enhance my country's voice and influence in the global environmental governance system.Adhering to the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, telling the grand narrative of building a beautiful China internationally, and participating in the global climate negotiation agenda and the formulation of international rules with a more active attitude, the key is to grasp the trend of global climate governance and realize the transformation of participants in global ecological and environmental governance to leaders, so that the international community can fully understand the positive measures taken and effective results achieved by my country in ecological environmental protection and climate governance. Actively participate in the formulation of international rules, especially in terms of ESG construction, establish green supply chain carbon footprint data disclosure rules, build a high-quality localized full-life cycle evaluation carbon footprint database, and achieve international mutual recognition.

Innovate the allocation of factors, use green and low-carbon technology to be self-reliant and self-reliant to stimulate new green momentum.my country's ecological and environmental governance has gradually shifted from pollution prevention and control to supporting the construction of a beautiful China and the realization of the "double carbon" goal, and from the governance of a single environmental factor to comprehensive governance that includes cross-domain, multi-element, system coordination, and process coordination. On the one hand, scientific and technological innovation leads the green and security transformation of traditional industries, and promotes the green and low-carbon upgrading of traditional industries with "double control" of ecological environmental protection, pollution control, and carbon emissions. On the other hand, it is necessary to accelerate the development of green strategic emerging industries and future industries, build a green, low-carbon circular modern industrial system through strategic, cutting-edge, and disruptive scientific and technological innovation and application promotion, coordinate the expansion of emerging industries and traditional industries, and implement A number of major engineering demonstration projects with national effects and cross-regional influence will expand the path to realize the value of ecological products. The all-round green transformation of production and lifestyle, way of thinking and values is also an important aspect of self-reliance and self-reliance in green and low-carbon technology. We must pay attention to innovation at the technology and business level, as well as innovation at the management and institutional mechanisms levels to continuously improve green and low-carbon technology innovation level.

Author's unit: Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences