On June 27, 2024, the "Low Carbon Circle Breaking Program" Industry Low Carbon Development Guidelines Achievement Conference was successfully held in Beijing. Against the background of the comprehensive deepening of the "dual-carbon" policy, in order to promote and support more relevant industries, especially the non-eight key carbon emitting industries to carry out the work of combating climate change, CEPF and the Energy Foundation jointly launched the "Low Carbon Circle Breaking Program" in 2023, which marked a new stage in the low-carbon development of the industry. The successful convening of the program results conference marks a new stage in the industry's low-carbon development.
This year's "Low Carbon Circle-Breaking Program" compiled industry low carbon development guidelines around three themes: community response to climate change, low carbon development in the plastics industry, and urban logistics carbon reduction strategies, and constructed a basic framework for low carbon development in related industries. At the conference, Meng Qingjun, Deputy Secretary General of China Plastics Processing Industry Association (CPIA), shared the theme of "Low Carbon Development Guidelines for the Plastics Processing Industry". Through the analysis of climate-related risks and opportunities in the plastics industry, climate risk mitigation strategies in the plastics industry, management of greenhouse gas emissions in the plastics processing industry, and mechanisms for coping with climate change in the plastics processing industry, CPIA introduced the current situation of low-carbon development of China's plastics industry, and emphasized the importance of the low carbon development of China's plastics industry. It introduced the current low-carbon development of China's plastics industry through several aspects, including the analysis of climate-related risks and opportunities in the plastics industry, the management of greenhouse gas emissions in the plastics processing industry, and the mechanism for coping with climate change in the plastics processing industry.
With the extension of the "dual-carbon" strategy from key emitting industries to more related areas of the national economy, green transformation and the development of new quality productivity are facing a series of new challenges, which require joint actions and circle-breaking explorations by environmental protection organizations, as well as the participation and support of all parties.