When Will Textile Industry Be Included In Carbon Market Through Reverse Pressure Mechanism

The national carbon market is an important policy tool to achieve the goal of carbon peak carbon neutralization. July 16 is the first anniversary of the launch of the national carbon emission trading market. As of July 15, the cumulative trading volume of the first batch of more than 2000 key carbon emission units of power generation industry in the national carbon market carbon emission quota (CEA) was 194 million tons, with a cumulative turnover of 8.492 billion yuan; Starting from 48 yuan / ton, the highest reached 62 yuan / ton, and the latest closing price on July 15 was 58.24 yuan / ton. The national carbon market has developed into one of the largest secondary carbon spot markets in the world. This is also the first time for China to compact the responsibility of controlling greenhouse gas emissions to enterprises from the national level, and promote the industrial technology upgrading of enterprises through the mechanism of market reverse force.

　　 Only power companies are involved

China's first batch of enterprises to be included in carbon emission trading are all power generation enterprises. The reason for this arrangement is mainly due to the large emission of enterprises in the power generation industry, standardized data and high management level.

Zhao Yingmin, Vice Minister of the Ministry of ecology and environment, said when the national carbon emission trading market was launched last year, that the national carbon market chose the power generation industry as the breakthrough point because the power generation industry directly burned coal, so the carbon dioxide emissions of the industry were relatively large.

More than 2000 key emission units in the power generation industry, including self provided power plants, emit more than 4 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually. Therefore, taking the power generation industry as the first start-up industry can give full play to the positive role of carbon market in controlling greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, the management system of power generation industry is relatively sound, and the data base is relatively good. Because if you want to trade, you have to have accurate data first. Accurate and effective acquisition of emission data is the premise of carbon market trading. The products of power generation industry are single, the measurement facilities of emission data are complete, the automation management level of the whole industry is high, the data management is standardized, and it is easy to verify, and the quota allocation is simple and easy.

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　　 Expansion is the general trend

Although the national carbon emission trading market has been running smoothly for a year, industry insiders believe that although the operation has achieved initial results, there are still many problems to be solved in the national carbon emission trading market, including the single participation industry. At present, China's non-ferrous metals, iron and steel, petrochemical and other industries are not included in the scope of domestic carbon emission trading.

In fact, the Ministry of ecology and environment has carried out preliminary preparation work for carbon emission data of high emission industries such as steel, nonferrous metals, building materials, petrochemical, chemical industry, papermaking and aviation for many years in a row. In the next step, it will consider the economic and social development situation, mature an industry into one industry, and accelerate the construction speed of relevant laws and regulations of the national carbon market.

It is understood that the climate change Department of the Ministry of ecology and environment has issued a letter of authorization to the China Building Materials Federation, formally entrusting the China Building Materials Federation to carry out the relevant work of building materials industry into the national carbon market.

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　　 When will textile industry enter the carbon market?

Guangzhou is the only multi pilot area in China, which combines national low-carbon city pilot, carbon trading pilot and green financial reform and innovation pilot area. On July 14, the Guangzhou Municipal People's government officially announced that it was exploring to gradually expand the scope of emission control industry, and planned to bring ceramic, textile, data center and other industries into Guangdong carbon market. According to some data, as of June 30, this year, the cumulative transaction quota of Guangzhou carbon emission trading center was 207 million tons, accounting for 27.7% of the national total; The total transaction amount reached 5.092 billion yuan, accounting for 22.62% of the total amount in China; The trading volume and transaction amount ranked first in China. It is the first time in China that Guangzhou will bring textile into Guangdong carbon market, which undoubtedly has guiding significance for the expansion of carbon trading in China.

According to statistics, the total energy consumption of textile industry in 2019 is 107 million tons of standard coal, accounting for 2.2% of the total national energy consumption, 3.2% of the industry and 4.0% of the manufacturing industry; Among the 31 categories of manufacturing industry, the carbon emission of textile industry ranked sixth, chemical fiber manufacturing industry ranked 15th, and textile clothing and apparel industry ranked 22nd. Obviously, the carbon emission of textile industry is in the forefront of manufacturing industry, and it is the general trend that textile industry is included in carbon trading market.

Some experts pointed out that, focusing on the overall layout of China's response to climate change, comprehensively considering emission reduction and carbon reduction and social and economic development, scientifically and reasonably promoting the process of carbon market expansion, carbon emission data support needs to be further strengthened, and it is difficult to formulate quota share scheme for new industries. If a new industry is to be included in the second performance period, it is necessary to have industry-oriented carbon emission accounting standards and calculate the emission data of at least the previous year, but the latest accounting standards of other industries have not been officially released.

Cheng Jie, deputy director of the industry department of China Textile Federation, believes that it is "certain" that the textile industry is included in the carbon trading market, but it is not simple to realize carbon trading in different industries and regions. If textile industry and other industries want to be included in the carbon market, it is necessary to establish a unified standard carbon market to solve the problem of cross industry common carbon index, which can not be achieved in the short term.

The carbon dioxide emission from energy consumption is the most important part of the overall carbon emission of textile industry. Cheng pointed out that at present, it is important to further optimize the energy structure system of the textile industry and encourage enterprises to use renewable energy as much as possible.

The Ministry of ecology and environment said that in the next step, it will accelerate the revision of the national standards for greenhouse gas emission accounting and reporting of relevant industries in accordance with the principle of "one is mature, one is approved and one is issued", and the quota allocation scheme for different industries will be studied and formulated, so as to further expand the coverage of carbon market in power generation industry after the carbon market in power generation industry operates healthily, We should give full play to the important role of market mechanism in controlling greenhouse gas emissions, promoting green and low-carbon technology innovation, and guiding Climate Investment and financing.

(source: textile and clothing weekly)