Pathways for Achieving Carbon Neutrality and China’s Role in Global Climate Governance

The Special Policy Study on the Pathway to Carbon Neutrality and China’s Role in Global Climate Governance is one of the research topics under the taskforce of Global Environmental Governance and Ecological Civilization of China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (referred to as CCICED) from 2022 to 2023. The focus of the research project includes the judgment on the domestic and international situation of green and low-carbon transition, the analysis on progress of China’s carbon dioxide peaking and carbon neutrality actions, as well as China’s policy direction of deepening green and low-carbon transition.

At present, global climate governance has entered the stage of fully implementing the Paris Climate Agreement. Countries covering 83% of global carbon emissions, 91% of GDP and 80% of the world’s population have put forward or are about to propose their “zero carbon” or “carbon neutrality” climate goals and have actively promoted green and low-carbon transformation and innovation. However, as the international political and economic environment becomes more and more complex and severe, the resistance and differences in the global climate governance are also gradually increasing. There are still many competitions between countries around related issues such as climate goals and climate funding, and the positive attitude and mutual trust in advancing climate cooperation are also gradually decreasing, so the road to a global response to climate change still has a long way to go.

Task Force: Innovation in Global Environmental Governance Topic: Climate Year: 2023 Phase: Phase VII (2022-2027) Concluded