The Legal Guarantee for Achieving Carbon Peak and Neutrality Goals in China

Hui Shi and Xiaobin He ()
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Hui Shi: School of Law, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China
Xiaobin He: School of Law, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 3, 1-12

Abstract: In order to actively fulfill its international treaty obligations, China has established the goal of peaking CO 2 emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060. Since 2018, when ecological civilization was written into the Constitution, the realization of carbon peak and neutrality goals has had an ideological foundation and a constitutional basis. China has formulated various special laws and built a 1 + N policy system to reduce carbon emissions, which together with the environmental protection law, climate change law, energy law and other related laws and regulations constitute a unified legal system and provide legal support to achieve carbon peak and neutrality goals. At the same time, China has taken advantage of the new national system with concentrated efforts and resources to delineate the different roles of the government and market mechanisms in carbon emission reduction, and to make the operation of the legal system of carbon peak and neutrality suitable for its actual situation by giving full paly to the initiative of both central and local governments. This article analyzes the current legal system and its characteristics in China in the process of achieving carbon peak and neutrality goals in the context of the new era, and outlooks on the improvement path of the legal system from both domestic and international dimensions. The practice, experience and development direction of China in the construction of the legal guarantee for carbon peak and neutrality goals can provide reference for other countries to achieve carbon reduction.

Keywords: carbon neutrality; carbon peak; legal guarantee; 1 + N policy system; Chinese characteristics; central and local initiative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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