The key to paralleling carbon reduction and development lies in optimizing the strategic path

Original source: Science and Technology Daily

Reporter: Liu Yin

Recently, the Ministry of Science and Technology organized the Xiangshan Science Conference on "Carbon Neutral Technological Innovation Path Selection".

Academician Du Xiangwan, former vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Counselor Liu Yanhua, director of the National Climate Change Expert Committee, jointly served as the executive chairman of the meeting.

"Achieving the dual goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality is a complex system engineering, and the optimal strategic path must be planned.

Du Xiangwan bluntly said that the current view is that there are still 10 years before the peak of carbon, and our carbon emissions can reach a peak.

This means that my country will shift from fossil energy-based to non-fossil energy-based.

"To achieve a fair and just energy transition, energy security and low-carbon transition are not inconsistent.

Participating experts discussed that, to achieve the carbon peak and carbon neutral goals, it is necessary to give full play to the role of innovation as the first driving force.

"Science and technology innovation is the foundation and key to support my country's carbon neutrality goal.

However, to achieve the long-term goal of carbon neutrality, the existing technology system still has great difficulties.

"Strengthen the top-level design and formulate a roadmap for breakthroughs in core technologies.

In Du Xiangwan’s view, “energy reduction” should be promoted in concert with the “blue sky defense war.