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Chapter V Strategies for Climate Change Mitigation

public transit infrastructure, optimize bus route networks, improve service quality and cov-
erage of public transportation, and incentivize residents to choose public transit. In the con-
struction sector, actively promote green building standards requiring new buildings to meet
specific energy-saving and environmental benchmarks. Adopt energy-efficient windows and
doors, high-efficiency insulation materials, solarphotovoltaic panels and othergreen building
technologies and products to enhance energy utilization efficiency while reducing building
energy consumption andcarbon emissions.。
Regarding ecological conservation and restoration: Enhancing ecosystemcarbon sink
capacityis a critical task. Strengthen forest resource protection, strictly limit deforestation,
intensify afforestation efforts, and increase forest coverage. As the main component of ter-
restrial ecosystems, forests possess formidablecarbon sequestration capabilities.，can absorb
andstore large amounts ofcarbon dioxide. At the same time, strengthen the protection and
restoration of ecosystems such as wetlands and grasslands, which also possess significantcar-
bon sequestration capabilities, playing a positive role in addressing climate change. Through
these ecological conservation and restoration measures, enhance the stability and resilience
of ecosystems, strengthening their regulatory capacity to cope with climate change.
3.Policy Guarantee
Policy guarantee serves as a crucial foundation for the successful implementation of
long-term climate change mitigation strategies, encompassing various aspects such as laws
and regulations, economic policies, and international cooperation policies.
In terms of laws and regulations, establishing comprehensive carbon emission-related
legislation forms the foundation. This involves clarifying the responsibilities and obligations
of enterprises and individuals regarding greenhouse gas emissions, and imposing strict legal
sanctions for non-compliant emission behaviors. Through the authority and enforceabili-
ty of law, it regulates carbon emission behaviors across all sectors of society to ensure the
achievement of emission reduction targets. For example, formulating laws for total carbon
emission control and trading, which explicitly define enterprises’ carbon emission quotas.
Enterprises can trade these quotas in the market, while those exceeding their quotas will face
penalties such as fines and production suspension.
Regarding economic policies, implementing market mechanisms like carbon taxes and
carbon emission trading can effectively incentivize emission reduction. Carbon taxes impose
levies on carbon emission behaviors of enterprises and individuals, encouraging proactive
energy conservation and emission reduction measures by increasing the cost of carbon emis-
sions. Carbon emission trading operates based on setting a cap on total carbon emissions,-
Carbon emissionsAllowances are allocated to enterprises, who can trade allowances in the
market based on their emission reduction performance. This market mechanism can fully
leverage price signals to guide resource allocation toward low-carbon sectors, incentivizing
enterprises to increase investment in energy-saving and emission-reduction technologytech-
nologyresearch, development, and application to reduce carbon emissions.

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