When will the nonwoven industry be included in the operation of the national carbon market?
The national carbon market is an important policy tool to implement the goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality. July 16 is the first anniversary of the launch of the national carbon emission trading market. As of July 15, the first batch of more than 2000 key carbon emission units in the power generation industry had a cumulative turnover of 194 million tons in the national carbon market carbon emission quota (CEA), with a cumulative turnover of 8.492 billion yuan; Starting from 48 yuan / ton, the maximum reached 62 yuan / ton, and the latest closing price on July 15 was 58.24 yuan / ton. The national carbon market has developed into one of the world’s largest secondary carbon spot markets. This is also the first time that China has compacted the responsibility of controlling greenhouse gas emissions to enterprises from the national level, and promoted the industrial technology upgrading of enterprises through the market forcing mechanism.
Although the national carbon emission trading market has been running smoothly for a year, industry insiders believe that although the operation has achieved initial results, there are still many problems to be solved in the national carbon market, including participation in a single industry. At present, only the power industry has been included in the scope of carbon emissions trading, while seven major industries, including petrochemical, chemical, building materials, steel, non-ferrous metals, papermaking and domestic civil aviation, have not been included in the trading.
In fact, the Ministry of ecological environment has carried out the preliminary preparation of carbon emission data for high emission industries such as steel, nonferrous metals, building materials, petrochemical, chemical industry, papermaking and aviation for many years. In the next step, we will take into account the situation of economic and social development, mature one industry into one industry, and speed up the construction of relevant regulations and systems of the national carbon market.
It is understood that the climate change Department of the Ministry of ecological environment has issued a letter of authorization to the China Building Materials Federation, formally entrusting the China Building Materials Federation to carry out work related to the integration of the building materials industry into the national carbon market.
Guangzhou is the only multi pilot area in China that combines the national low-carbon city pilot, carbon trading pilot and green finance reform and innovation pilot zone. On July 14, the Guangzhou Municipal People’s government officially announced that it would explore the gradual expansion of the scope of emission control industries and plan to include ceramics, textiles, data centers and other industries into the carbon market in Guangdong. Data show that as of June 30 this year, the cumulative transaction quota of Guangzhou carbon emission trading center was 207 million tons, accounting for 27.7% of the national total; The total transaction amount reached 5.092 billion yuan, accounting for 22.62% of the national total; The trading volume and transaction amount rank first in China. For the first time in the country, Guangzhou proposed to bring textiles into Guangdong’s carbon market, which undoubtedly has guiding significance for the expansion of national carbon trading.
According to statistics, the total energy consumption of the textile industry in 2019 was 107 million tons of standard coal, accounting for 2.2% of the total energy consumption of the country, 3.2% of industry and 4.0% of manufacturing; Among the 31 categories of manufacturing industry, the carbon emission of textile industry ranks 6th, the chemical fiber manufacturing industry ranks 15th, and the textile clothing and clothing industry ranks 22nd. Obviously, the carbon emission of the textile industry ranks in the forefront of the manufacturing industry, and it is also a general trend for the textile industry to be included in the carbon trading market.
Some experts pointed out that focusing on the overall layout of China’s response to climate change, taking into account emission reduction and carbon reduction and social and economic development, and scientifically and reasonably promoting the expansion process of the carbon market, the support of carbon emission data needs to be further strengthened, and it is difficult to formulate a quota share scheme for new industries. To include a new industry in the second performance period, first of all, there must be industry-oriented carbon emission accounting standards, and the emission data of at least the previous year must be calculated, but the latest accounting standards of other industries have not been officially released.
Cheng Jian, deputy director of the industry department of China Textile Federation, believes that it is “certain” that the textile industry is included in the carbon trading market, but it is not simple to realize carbon trading in different industries and regions. If textile industry and other industries want to be included in the carbon market, they need to establish a unified standard carbon market to solve the difficulties of cross industry carbon indicators, which cannot be achieved in the short term.
CO2 greenhouse gas emissions from energy consumption are the most important part of the overall carbon emissions of the textile industry. Cheng Ying pointed out that at present, it is important to further optimize the energy structure system of the textile industry and encourage enterprises to use renewable energy as much as possible.
The Ministry of ecological environment said that in the next step, it will speed up the revision of national standards for greenhouse gas emission accounting and reporting in relevant industries in accordance with the principle of “one mature, one approved and one released”, study and formulate quota allocation schemes by industry, further expand the coverage of the carbon market in the power generation industry after the healthy operation of the carbon market, and give full play to the role of market mechanisms in controlling greenhouse gas emissions, promoting green and low-carbon technology innovation It plays an important role in guiding Climate Investment and financing.
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