Cover comment ｜ Use the carbon market trading tools to control enterprises should from "passive" to "active"

Cover Journalist Zhu Ning

Since the official launch of the launch trading on July 16, 2021, the national carbon market has successfully operated its first anniversary. In the first performance cycle of the national carbon market, a total of 2,162 key emission units in the power generation industry were included in the country. The cumulative transaction volume was about 194 million tons, the cumulative turnover was about 8.49 billion yuan, and the performance completion rate was 99.5%.

Carbon emission rights transactions are a flexible mechanism and effective means of promoting green and low -carbon development and controlling greenhouse gas emissions with minimal social costs. The national carbon market is both opportunities and challenges. As the main body of the carbon market transaction, two options are faced with two options: one is passively incorporated, and the performance cost is high; the other is to actively participate and seize the market opportunity.

However, from the perspective of the overall operation of the year, the "passive" transaction performance is not a small number. Most carbon transactions occur in the last month of the performance period. From the perspective of transaction methods, the proportion of the community agreement in the transaction volume reached 80 For more than 20%of the listing transaction volume.

The top -level design is paved with carbon transactions. After all, the control enterprise that needs to be used as the main body of the carbon market to actively "go".

In the process of development, the control enterprise is facing the growing pressure of carbon emission reduction. Therefore, it is not active for the management of carbon asset management and the construction of carbon markets. Many companies respond to carbon asset management with a negative attitude. During the performance, it is a wait -and -see attitude.

"Will the price of the quota be reduced tomorrow? Will the government introduce other regulatory policies?" Everyone will inevitably have a fluke, which will lead to insufficient control and execution capabilities of the enterprise, and it is difficult to achieve the ultimate goal of energy conservation and emission reduction.

However, it should be pointed out that in 2020, China officially proposed "the strategic goal of 2030 carbon peaks and 2060 carbon neutrality in 2060". Enter the long -view target in 2035. Therefore, "carbon reduction and emission reduction" is the general trend of economic and social development, and passive luck "must".

At the same time, theoretical and empirical studies have shown that the carbon price mechanism is the most cost -effective emission reduction tool, especially in the short period of medium term. Such a measure to reduce costs can bring more emission reduction opportunities. Instead of being passively incorporated into the carbon market, the control enterprise is better to change its thinking. From technical reform reduction, to reasonably plan its own resources to develop the "carbon neutralization" project, actively participate in the carbon market, and seize market opportunities.

Behind challenge is opportunities. The global mature carbon market in the world, my country's carbon market has huge potential and broad prospects. As the main body of the carbon market, the control enterprises should change their mentality thinking, actively embrace the carbon market, use the carbon market transaction, promote the low -carbon transformation and the enterprise's low -carbon transformation and the transformation of enterprises High -quality development also contributes to the realization of China's "double carbon" goal.

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