Target Orientation of Addressing Climate Change During the Period of the 14th Five-Year Plan

Jiahua Pan
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Jiahua Pan: Research Centre for Sustainable Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, F8, MCC Tower, 28 Shuguangxili, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100028, China2University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 11 Changyu Street, Fangshan District, Beijing 102488, China

Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies (CJUES), 2020, vol. 08, issue 02, 1-20

Abstract: Emission reduction is the focus of and difficulty in addressing climate change. In choosing emission reduction targets, China needs to examine the historical trajectory of carbon emissions in developed countries and learn from their target orientations. During the evolution of the world development pattern, the status of China changed fundamentally. The goals of the 14th Five-Year Plan to address climate change should not only be pragmatic but also demonstrate moral responsibility, and should not only achieve international leadership but also achieve domestic reverse actuation. The goals of the 14th Five-Year Plan do not need to exclude reaching the peak of carbon dioxide emissions. China has advantages in the goals of the speed and scale of renewable energy development. Although the goal of net-zero carbon is impossible to achieve in the whole country, it can be tried in some regions first. On the side of demand, the target orientation of pure electric vehicle has leading value. The indicators of climate resilience, especially resilient carbon reduction and ecological carbon sequestration, etc., are also the goals of ecological civilization transformation and development.

Keywords: 14th Five-Year Plan; climate change; emission reduction target; resilient carbon reduction; ecological carbon sequestration; nationally determined contributions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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