China's Policies and Actions on Climate Change (2015)

Since 2014, China has actively taken measures in various fields to tackle climate change and achieved remarkable outcomes. China issued the National Climate Change Plan (2014-2020) putting forward China’s main objectives and key tasks to address climate change before 2020. China submitted the Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to the Secretariat of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) outlining the objectives including to achieve the peaking of carbon dioxide emissions around 2030 and make best efforts to peak early, and proposing policy measures to ensure their implementation. By adjusting industrial structure, improving energy conservation and energy efficiency, optimizing energy structure, controlling non-energy GHG emissions and increasing forest carbon sinks and taking other efforts to control GHG emissions, China lowered its carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by 6.1% in 2014, with a cumulative decline of 15.8% over 2010, completing 92.3% of its carbon intensity decline target during the 12th Five-Year Plan period. It has reduced the adverse effects of climate change and enhanced the ability to adapt to climate change through positive actions in agriculture, water resources, forestry and ecosystems, coastal areas and relevant waters, human health and other areas. At the same time, China actively promoted international exchanges and cooperation on climate change, issued joint statements on climate change with India, Brazil, UK, EU, US and France and prepared South-South Cooperation Fund for climate change; it actively participated in international negotiations on climate change in a constructive manner for 2015 Paris Agreement and follow-up system construction.