Transform theoretical consensus into practical exploration and promote comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development| Summary of the 2024 China Environmental Strategy and Policy Academic Annual Conference ④

The "2024 China Environmental Strategy and Policy Academic Annual Conference" hosted by the Environmental and Economic Policy Research Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment was recently held in Beijing。This annual meeting will set up a main venue with the theme of "Focusing on Building a Beautiful China and Deepening the Reform of the Ecological Civilization System." It will focus on the basic system of ecological civilization, the ecological environment governance system, the green and low-carbon development mechanism, and actively and steadily promoting carbon peak and carbon neutrality. Four parallel sub-venues will be set up on themes such as carbon neutrality. A total of more than 150 representatives from relevant ministries and commissions, scientific research institutes, local governments, news media, etc. attended the meeting, and conducted theoretical and practical discussions and exchanges around the theme of the forum, and put forward good opinions and suggestions.

my country's economic and social development has entered a stage of high-quality development that accelerates greening and low-carbon. However, the structural, root and trend pressures of ecological and environmental protection have not yet been fundamentally alleviated, and the construction of ecological civilization is still at a critical stage of superimposed pressure and carrying forward with heavy burdens. period. Improving the green and low-carbon development mechanism is an important part of deepening the reform of the ecological civilization system, a major measure to fundamentally solve ecological and environmental problems from the source, and an important guarantee for the development of green and new quality productivity. Experts attending the meeting believed that to improve the green and low-carbon development mechanism, we must transform theoretical consensus into practical exploration, accelerate reform and innovation from various aspects such as power mechanisms, support carriers, paths and methods, and promote the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.

New quality productivity is becoming one of the key focuses of China's promotion of high-quality development. It can not only bring new economies, new industries, and new business formats, but also bring new production relations, new methods and new production factors. Some experts believe that under the new situation, we must be guided by new quality productivity and aim at comprehensive coverage, efficient operation, and standardized and orderly operation. We must vigorously develop the circular economy, strengthen the close connection between the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, and improve the management of total resources. Comprehensive conservation system, improve the waste recycling system, thereby implementing a comprehensive conservation strategy, ensuring national resource security, reducing resource consumption, improving resource utilization efficiency, and achieving synergy between pollution reduction and carbon reduction.

Some experts believe that in improving the green and low-carbon development mechanism in the future, it is necessary to achieve the organic unity of "stable growth" and "structural adjustment", and further improve the coordination of the policy systems of finance, taxation, finance and industrial division of labor. Improve the green finance standard system, coordinate the two dimensions of increment and stock, refine the classification catalog of green finance, and optimize the field direction in which green finance accurately serves the construction of a beautiful China. Improve the sustainable information disclosure mechanism and environmental credit supervision system to lay the foundation for the green transformation of enterprises and the effective development of green financial services by financial institutions. Enrich green financial products and continuously expand the connotation and extension of green financial products. Strengthen the inherent incentive mechanism of the financial industry and continue to promote low-carbon and zero-carbon on the asset and operation sides in an orderly manner.

The carbon market is an institutional tool to promote carbon neutrality at low cost and efficiency. Some experts believe that the in-depth development of the national carbon market is inseparable from financial support and empowerment. At this stage, it is necessary to accelerate the expansion of the carbon market industry, enhance market activity, enrich market trading tools, and strengthen the cultivation of market participants. Efforts should be made to develop voluntary carbon markets to promote the effectiveness, liquidity and stability of the overall carbon market. Comply with the development trend of the international voluntary carbon market, learn from the experience of all parties, carry out diversification, marketization and international exploration, and promote the construction of a more effective, dynamic and internationally influential China voluntary carbon market.

The current carbon emission reduction tax policy is binding, the control of carbon emission reduction tax policy needs to be strengthened, and the incentive tax policies to support carbon emission reduction need to be further optimized. Some experts suggest that it is necessary to appropriately increase the regulation of binding carbon emission reduction tax policies in stages, optimize the scope and intensity of adjustment of incentive carbon emission reduction tax policies, and accelerate the construction of carbon emission reduction tax policies that are compatible with the "double carbon" strategic goals. Policy system.