BEIJING, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- In order to fully and effectively implement the requirements of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its related resolutions, China officially submitted the Fourth National Communication of the People's Republic of China on Climate Change and the Third Biennial Update Report on Climate Change to the Secretariat of the Convention on December 29.
This reporter learned from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment on the same day.
It is reported that the two reports vividly reflect China's policy actions and progress in responding to climate change during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, and show China's positive contributions as a responsible major country in global governance to address climate change.
The fourth national communication includes information on national circumstances and institutional arrangements, national greenhouse gas inventories for 2017, climate change impacts and adaptation, mitigation policies and actions, financial, technical and capacity-building needs, as well as climate change research and climate system observations. The third two-year update report includes the national greenhouse gas inventory in 2018, as well as China's main mitigation policies and actions as of 2020, and quantitatively analyzes their emission reduction effects. The report also contains basic information on Hong Kong and Macao's response to climate change.
The report shows that as the world's largest developing country, China has overcome its own economic and social difficulties, and has made the greatest determination to increase its efforts to respond to climate change, significantly reducing carbon dioxide emission intensity and effectively controlling greenhouse gas emissions. In 2020, China's carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP fell by 48% compared to 20054%, and the proportion of non-fossil energy in total energy consumption reached 159%, the forest stock exceeded 17.5 billion cubic meters, exceeding the "13th Five-Year Plan" target, but also exceeding the "2020 carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP compared with 2005 carbon dioxide emissions by 40% to 45%, the proportion of non-fossil energy to reach about 15%, forest stock to reach 15 billion cubic meters" and other goals, laying a solid foundation for the realization of the nationally determined contribution target. (ENDS).