On January 13, 2023, a large-scale public service project called “100 Billion Tons of Green Steel” (hereinafter referred to as “the Action”) has officially launched in Beijing. The Action was jointly organized by multiple entities including the Tongzhou Canal Business District, the China National Institute of Standardization (CNIS), China Iron and Steel Association, China Society of Technology Economics, and China Metallurgical Information and Standardization Institute, etc.
The Action is supported by green finance, and it will follow standards on green steel and focus on green steel procurement to establish China’s first standardized carbon chain platform, which facilitates both upstream and downstream enterprises. Also, it assists all stakeholders of the industrial chain to realize goals of carbon peak and carbon neutrality.
The Director of Carbon Peak & Neutrality Division, Resource Conservation and Environment Protection Department, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), Mr. Xiong Zhe introduced the work plan of carbon peak & neutrality of NDRC in the following aspects: enhancing overall coordination; promoting the low-carbon and green-oriented transition of energy; boosting industrial upgrading and optimization; accelerating urban and rural construction and low-carbon and green-oriented transition of transportation; speeding up the innovation of green low-carbon technologies; completing green low-carbon policy system.
The Head of Resource and Environment Sub-institute, CNIS, Mr. Lin Ling introduced the green-oriented low-carbon standards system in the speech, and explained the role of standardization, standards system and relevant policies on carbon peak and carbon neutrality, the framework, index system and classification specification of green products.
The Action and relevant standardized carbon platform can be recognized as an innovative attempt to improve quality, enhance efficiency and realize high-quality development. It is also a typical approach to establish a coordinated system of construction industrial chain. It will be further expanded to more products and fields such as transportation and chemical industry, which is expected to stimulate China’s green high-quality development.
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