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US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry (left) meets China Special Envoy for Climate Change Xie Zhenhua in Shanghai. (File photo: Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment)

China's recent commitment to curb coal consumption and coal-fired power projects has sent a strong signal that the country will unswervingly reduce its reliance on coal as a dominant source of energy, experts said.

China strives to peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. How can China achieve these goals? What do they mean to China and the world?

While global attention centers on China's economic targets as top officials meet in Beijing to map out blueprints for the country's development over the next five years and beyond, policies on environmental protection, specifically reducing carbon emissions, are expected to be highlighted in the new 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25), Chinese experts said.

On August 23, 2022, China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the World Economic Forum jointly convened the Policy Dialogue With Enterprises by Walking Davos

From July 7 to July 9, 2022, with the support of Energy Foundation China, Inner Mongolia launched its two-month training for the province’s regulators and entrepreneurs on the topics of carbon peaking and neutrality goals and energy consumption and intensity control targets.

China’s overall “1+N” climate action framework is taking shape to drive peaking carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality before 2060 (the “30/60” goals).

On August 26, 2022, with the support of Energy Foundation China, the Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development (ICCSD) at Tsinghua University held its interim evaluation meeting in Beijing of the flagship research project on China’s 2035 and longer-term development strategies in the context of the country’s carbon neutrality goal.

On July 11, 2022, with the support of Energy Foundation China (EF China), the Tsinghua Institute for Carbon Neutrality (ICON) hosted its second Carbon Neutrality Technology Forum on the theme of energy storage.

In April 2022, the All-China Environment Federation released this document, which was drafted by the federation’s Committee of Green, Circular, and Inclusive Development and the Center for Environmental Education and Communications of China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment. It was part of a bigger project exploring standards and pilots of personal carbon accounting, with the supported of Energy Foundation China.

In April, 2022, supported by Energy Foundation China, the Innovative Green Development Program (iGDP) released this report discussing feasible strategies that might encourage the public to adopt greener and lower carbon consumption behavior.

In June 2022, with support from Energy Foundation China, Southern Weekly released this survey report about people’s understanding and actions regarding urban transportation options. Ipsos was commissioned to conduct the survey.

In 2022, Beijing Guohuan Tsinghua Environmental Engineering Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd. and Tsing-Huan Smart Source (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. jointly completed this report about how to in the next five years control volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and carbon emissions at the same time in the petrochemical industry. The report was supported by Energy Foundation China.