The 2nd Double Carbon Rule of Law (Wuhan) Summit Forum was successfully held

On September 21, on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of General Secretary Xi Jinping's announcement of my country's dual carbon goals, the second dual-carbon rule of law (Wuhan) Summit Forum hosted by the Hubei Province Higher People's Court, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law and China Carbon Deng Corporation was successfully held in China Carbon Deng Building. The theme of this forum is "Providing a Solid Legal Guarantee for the Construction and Development of the National Carbon Market". It aims to accelerate the practical exploration of the "double carbon" rule of law and inject new impetus into the construction of a "double carbon" rule of law system that leads legislation, promotes law enforcement, and provides judicial guarantee. Power and new momentum. From the National People's Congress Environmental Protection Committee, the Supreme People's Court, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Hubei Province Political Consultative Conference, the Hubei Province State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the Hubei Province Development and Reform Commission, the Hubei Province Department of Ecology and Environment and other competent departments, universities such as Wuhan University, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing University, China University of Political Science and Law and Law, courts and procuratorates of Hainan, Guangxi, Shanghai, Beijing, Fujian, Henan, Hubei and other provinces and cities, Hubei Hongtai Group, China Carbon Deng, Shanghai Environmental Energy Exchange, Beijing Green Exchange and other enterprises. More than 100 people, as well as representatives of experts and scholars from law firms and social organizations, attended the forum.

At the main forum of the event, Wang Hongling, Vice Chairman of the Hubei Province CPPCC and Chairman of the Hubei Province Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Revolutionary Committee, You Quanrong, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and President of the Higher People's Court of Hubei Province, Hou Zhenfa, Secretary of the Party Committee of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, and Zeng Xin, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Hubei Hongtai Group, delivered speeches. The meeting believed that the holding of this forum demonstrated the firm determination and responsibility of Hubei Province in responding to the national dual-carbon strategy and promoting green and low-carbon development. It was an important practice to serve and ensure dual-carbon work through the power of the rule of law. As a major ecological province, Hubei must speed up the transformation of the ecological advantages of green waters and green mountains into the development momentum of gold and silver mountains, resolutely shoulder the important task of the times as the country's largest province, and accelerate the cultivation of new development momentum in the green transformation. The meeting hopes that in the future, the three parties jointly building the dual-carbon legal research base will give full play to their respective professional advantages and resource potential, cultivate dual-carbon industry talents, jointly promote the construction of the national carbon market legal system, judicial law enforcement practice, research on cutting-edge legal issues, etc., and promote dual-carbon The development of the rule of law in the field provides useful ideas for the construction and development of the national carbon market, and contributes to the construction of a carbon market legal system that suits China's national conditions.

The essay award ceremony for the Second Double Carbon Rule of Law (Wuhan) Summit Forum was held at the meeting, and awards were awarded to 10 representative authors of award-winning essays. The forum released the "China Double Carbon Rule of Law Development Report (2023-2024)". Zhang Bao, deputy dean of the School of Law of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law and executive director of the Double Carbon Rule of Law and Economics Research Institute, introduced the overall situation of the "Report".

The "Report" pointed out that the rule of law plays a crucial role in achieving the "double carbon" goal. To achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality, we must be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization and Xi Jinping Thought on Rule of Law, and give full play to the rule of law to consolidate the foundation and stabilize the foundation. The functions of expecting and benefiting the long term, using legal thinking and legal methods to respond to climate change and promote green and low-carbon development. The "Report" systematically combs the effectiveness of my country's dual-carbon rule of law construction since 2023 and lists ten examples of China's dual-carbon rule of law in 2023, providing an annual observation window for the implementation effectiveness of the dual-carbon strategy from a new perspective.

In the subsequent keynote speech session, Lu Zhongmei, Vice President of the Chinese Law Society, member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Vice Chairman of the Environment and Resources Protection Committee, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Peasants and Workers Party, Vice President of the Chinese Law Society, and former Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Supreme People's Court Jiang Bixin, Deputy Director of the Regulations and Standards Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Sun Qian, a third-level senior judge of the Environmental Resources Trial Division of the Supreme People's Court, Dean of the Double Carbon Rule of Law and Economics Research Institute of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Professor, Doctoral supervisor Gao Lihong made speeches on "Compilation Suggestions for Green and Low-Carbon Development in the Ecological Environment Code","Multi-pronged Approach to Accelerate the Formation of a Carbon Market System" and "Implementing the Interim Regulations on the Management of Carbon Emissions Trading" to further promote the carbon market Rule of Law Construction,"Actively Respond to Climate Change, Promote and Improve the Carbon Market Trading Mechanism in accordance with the Law" and "Tax Challenges and Responses to Carbon Emissions Trading".

Based on the spirit of the decision of the Third Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee, Lu Zhongmei shared the suggestion that "the ecological and environmental code should be specially set up with a green and low-carbon development chapter" put forward by the Research Group on the Compilation and Research of the Ecological and Environmental Code of the Environmental Resources Law Research Society of the Chinese Law Society. She believes that in the process of transforming dual-carbon policies into legal norms, we must closely combine the practical logic of green and low-carbon development with the needs of the rule of law. The first is to send a green and low-carbon development policy signal. The second is to uphold the green tone, follow the low-carbon context, strictly control carbon circulation, and promote the sustainable development of the circular economy. The third is to decompose the dual carbon goals and establish a low-carbon economic system. The fourth is to coordinate the green and low-carbon legal norm system with the intra-party legal system, social norm system, and moral norm system. Through progressive design, the entire chain of green and low-carbon development with value guidance, functional integration, system integration and normative supplementation can be fully realized.

Jiang Bixin said that in order to achieve the goal of reform and deployment made by the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the deepening of the development of the carbon market, we must adopt a multi-pronged approach to accelerate the formation of an institutional and normative system for the carbon market. First, we must broaden the edge of the rule of law through various channels., to establish relevant institutional and normative systems as soon as possible to solve the problem of legislative supply-side contradictions in the dual carbon field. The second is to improve the quality of norms and systems, attach great importance to the effectiveness of institutional norms, and attach importance to the implementativeness of systems, so as to ensure that relevant norms and systems are effectively implemented. The third is to strengthen the supervision of relevant normative systems, improve the supervision mechanism of relevant normative systems, emphasize the substantive legitimacy during review, emphasize the compatibility between norms and fairness and justice, and emphasize the operability of normative systems.

Wang Wei shared the following views on implementing the Interim Regulations on the Administration of Carbon Emissions Trading and promoting comprehensive green transformation of the economy and society. The first is to properly handle the relationship between the national market and local markets based on the principle of smooth transition. The second is to use verification and payment as the starting point to achieve the effective operation of the carbon market supervision mechanism. The third is to focus on strictly preventing fraud and strengthen the quality control of data of carbon market entities. Fourth, we must focus on risk prevention and control to ensure the smooth and orderly operation of the carbon market. Fifth, we must take the implementation of the regulations as an opportunity to further promote the construction of the rule of law in the carbon market.

Sun Qian shared the specific experience and practices of the Environmental Resources Trial Chamber of the Supreme People's Court on how to strengthen climate change response and promote and improve the carbon market trading mechanism in accordance with the law. First, actively cooperate and support legislation and promote the accelerated formulation of laws to address climate change. The second is to give full play to the trial function to promote the improvement of the adjudication rules system for climate change cases. The third is to enrich adjudication methods and increase judicial protection of new types of ecological resource rights and interests. She made corresponding judicial interpretations by sharing three cases: Qinghai court hearing steam and power supply contract investment disputes, Sichuan court hearing nationally certified voluntary emission reduction repurchase disputes, and Beijing court hearing carbon emission quota trading cases. Interpretation.

Gao Lihong introduced the tax design of carbon emissions trading by introducing the tax challenges in my country's carbon emissions trading process, the tax system and enlightenment of extraterritorial carbon emissions trading, and the improvement of my country's carbon emissions trading tax policies. She believes that my country's carbon emissions trading tax policy should follow the principles of tax fairness and tax efficiency. A communication and cooperation mechanism need to be established between tax authorities and carbon emissions trading and other institutions to jointly promote the healthy development of carbon emissions trading.

This conference opened two sub-forums. The theme of sub-forum was "Legislative and Judicial Issues in the Construction and Development of the National Carbon Market", and the theme of sub-forum was "Law Enforcement and Law-abiding Issues in the Construction and Development of the National Carbon Market". More than 30 experts and scholars conducted in-depth exchanges on legal issues in the construction and development of the national carbon market. All experts and scholars actively provided suggestions and suggestions for the construction of my country's dual-carbon rule of law from the perspectives of legislation, justice, law enforcement and law-abiding, and contributed important Wuhan wisdom, greatly demonstrating the original intention of this forum to serve my country's dual-carbon rule of law construction.

This forum adheres to the concept of green development. After checking by Wuhan Carbon Puhui Management Co., Ltd., approximately 12.2 tons of carbon dioxide emissions were generated, which was offset by Hubei Huadian Jiangling Power Generation Co., Ltd. through China Carbon Deng's voluntary cancellation of the 12.2 tons national carbon market quota to achieve Activity carbon neutrality. It is reported that the two dual-carbon rule of law forums are both zero-carbon forums. The three hosting parties once again vividly implemented the concept of green and low-carbon hosting with practical actions of holding zero-carbon conferences, and provided a demonstration for recommending green and low-carbon development methods. effect.