Climate Change Research ›› 2025, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (4): 529-540.doi: 10.12006/j.issn.1673-1719.2024.311

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Research on China’s carbon emission control decomposition methods under the “dual-carbon” goal

ZHOU Li1,2(), ZHANG Shu3, WANG Mei-Han4, HUANG Jun-Ling1   

  1. 1 Tsinghua University-China Three Gorges Corporation Joint Research Center for Climate Governance Mechanism and Green Low-Carbon Transformation Strategy, Beijing 100084, China
    2 Institute of Energy, Environment and Economics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
    3 School of Economics and Management, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, Beijing 102249, China
    4 School of Ecology and Environment, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
  • Received:2024-12-20 Revised:2025-03-10 Online:2025-07-30 Published:2025-06-25

Abstract:

Through the trend analysis of China’s transition from “dual control” of energy consumption to “dual control” of carbon emissions, three challenges in the transition are identified including mechanism coordination, target decomposition and basic conditions, and domestic and international experiences of decomposition of carbon emission control targets are sorted out. In China’s “15th Five-Year Plan”, it is more suitable to adopt the national carbon intensity control target. From six perspectives of fairness, transparency, cost effectiveness, data availability, coordination difficulty, and target completion risk, three approaches and implementation plans are put forward and compared for regional decomposition of carbon emission control targets during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period. The first approach is to set target for each province separately from top to down, continuing the experiences during the 13th Five-Year Plan and the 14th Five-Year Plan periods. The second approach is to develop a “two up and two down” national-regional iterative communication target setting mechanism based on the local determined targets. The third approach is to set a cap for the national carbon market and decomposed provincial targets for non-carbon markets. Based on comparison, it is recommended to adopt the second one currently. Relevant policy suggestions are put forward at last.

Key words: Dual-carbon goal, Decomposition, Nation, Region

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