Xiamen releases its first carbon inclusive management measures
Recently, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, released the "Xiamen City Carbon Inclusive Management Measures (Trial)" for the first time. There are 29 management measures, which systematically plan the carbon inclusive management process of Xiamen City, including seven parts: basic principles, methodological management, scenario management, emission reduction management, carbon inclusive transaction management, supervision and incentives, and supplementary provisions. It will be effective from September 2024 and will be valid for two years.
It is understood that carbon inclusion refers to quantifying and recording the emission reduction behaviors of enterprises and the public, and realizing the value conversion of emission reduction behaviors through consumption channels such as transaction monetization, policy support, and shopping mall incentives. It is an innovative voluntary emission reduction mechanism.
"We will follow the basic principles of government guidance, market operation, and universal benefit, and build a carbon inclusive management platform on the basis of fully considering public participation." Zhu Yaohua, deputy director of the Atmospheric and Environmental Emergency Division of the Xiamen City Ecological Environment Bureau, said,"After the completion of the carbon inclusive management platform, highly professional state-owned enterprises will be entrusted to participate in the operation, the operation team will be strengthened, and an operating mechanism guided by the government and the participation of state-owned enterprises will be formed to ensure the sustainability of the carbon inclusive ecosystem. By setting up personal carbon accounts and increasing channels for public participation, public low-carbon behavior can be quantified, opening a new window for individuals to participate in emission reduction."
In recent years, Xiamen City has actively explored the application of carbon inclusive scenarios. The Xiamen Property Rights Exchange Center has established a marine carbon sink trading platform and an agricultural carbon sink trading platform respectively. Currently, the marine carbon sink trading volume reaches 170,000 tons, accounting for more than half of the national blue carbon market, and the agricultural carbon sink trading volume reaches 280,000 tons. The Xiamen Property Rights Exchange Center has also cooperated with multiple regional procuratorates and courts inside and outside the province to innovate "ecological justice + blue carbon trading". At the beginning of 2024, the Xiamen Property Rights Exchange Center successfully completed the country's first waste classification carbon emission reduction transaction, opening a new model of "promoting community waste classification through green transactions."
"In the future, in addition to the more popular carbon inclusive scenarios such as green travel, we will also explore the integration of application scenarios with Xiamen characteristics such as marine carbon sinks and garbage classification into the carbon inclusive system of Xiamen City based on Xiamen's actual conditions." Zhu Yaohua said.
It is understood that the state supports and encourages various regions to explore and establish a public participation mechanism for carbon inclusion. The promulgation of Xiamen City's Carbon Inclusive Management Measures is expected to promote the development of Xiamen's Carbon Inclusive methodology, deepen the creation of low-carbon scenarios, promote the implementation of carbon inclusive application scenarios, gradually expand the scale and influence of Xiamen City's Carbon Inclusive, and further promote public participation in green and low-carbon production and lifestyle.
