Carbon trading-have you paid for carbon emissions?

DaDa / tr. by Phil Newell)

Carbon dioxide emissions by air (kg):

Short trips: within 200km = km x 0.275

Midway trip: 200km to 1000 km = 55km 0.105 × (km-200km)

Long-distance travel: more than 1000 km = km x 0.139.

Carbon dioxide emissions from train travel = kilometers x 0.04

Domestic natural gas carbon dioxide emissions (kg) = natural gas utilization degrees x 0.19

Carbon dioxide emissions from household tap water (kg) = tap water use × 0.91

If you multiply an individual's carbon emissions by 7 billion, the result is astronomical. From individuals to the world, efforts should be made to reduce carbon emissions to save the planet.

In order to deal with global warming and promote the reduction of global carbon dioxide emissions, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change adopted the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate change on May 9, 1992 through difficult negotiations. In December 1997, the first additional agreement, the Kyoto Protocol, was adopted, taking the market mechanism as a new way to solve the problem of greenhouse gas emission reduction represented by carbon dioxide. That is, carbon dioxide emissions rights as a commodity, thus forming the trading of carbon dioxide emissions rights, referred to as carbon trading.

Carbon emission rights, also known as carbon credits (carbon credit), means that countries or enterprises can obtain large carbon emission measurement units that can enter the carbon trading market by increasing energy efficiency, reducing pollution or reducing development under the condition of certification by the United Nations or an emission reduction organization recognized by the United Nations.

Carbon trading is like sellers selling goods and buyers buying goods, countries, enterprises or individuals emit less greenhouse gases through environmental protection projects, and after being certified by the United Nations, they can have ownership of these reduced emissions. as a result, buyers become sellers in the carbon market, and buyers increase the amount of carbon dioxide they can emit by buying carbon emission rights.

There is a popular explanation for carbon trading: when others pay for it, you cut emissions. For example, for developed countries, the cost of reducing greenhouse gas emissions is more than 100 US dollars per ton, while in most developing countries such as China, the cost of reducing greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced to 20 US dollars per tonne. This huge difference in emission reduction costs has prompted developed countries to actively seek cooperation projects in developing countries, opening up a green channel for carbon trading. The reason why this trading market is called the "carbon market" is mainly because other greenhouse gases are ultimately calculated on the basis of carbon dioxide emissions. It has been predicted that the carbon market will replace the oil market to become the world's largest trading market in the future.

One of China's commitments is to "achieve the target of reducing carbon intensity by 40% by 45% by 2020, and carbon dioxide emissions by 60% by 65% from 2005 by 2030."

As the largest country in greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries, China actively assumes the responsibility of being a big country. According to the "National carbon emissions Trading Market Construction Plan (Power Generation Industry)", the construction of the national carbon market is divided into "three steps". This year, we will complete the construction of a national unified data reporting system, registration system and trading system.

On May 9, the National Climate Strategy Center announced that the national resource emission reduction transaction registration system would resume operation and accept the registration of CCER transactions.

Although there are still some people in the international community who hold a negative attitude towards carbon trading, they think that carbon trading is only a "lie" and it is impossible to really reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But in the short term, carbon trading is not the only way to save the planet, but one of the important solutions.