Today's low-carbon economy refers to the reduction of high-carbon energy consumption such as coal and petroleum as much as possible through various means such as technological innovation, institutional innovation, industrial transformation, and new energy development under the guidance of the concept of sustainable development. "Greenhouse gas" emissions, an economic development pattern that achieves win-win economic and social development and ecological environmental protection.

With the continuous increase of the global population and economic scale, coal, oil, natural gas and other energy are consumed in large quantities, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising, the global climate is warming, and the environment and energy dilemma facing human survival and development are increasingly prominent.

The Chinese government attaches great importance to the development of a low-carbon economy. Premier Wen Jiabao pointed out in his 2010 government work report that it must vigorously develop low-carbon technologies, promote efficient energy-saving technologies, and actively develop new and renewable energy sources. Relevant departments in China are preparing the "Strategic Emerging Industries Development Plan" and have positioned new energy, energy conservation and environmental protection, electric vehicles, new materials, new medicine, biological breeding and information industry as emerging strategic industries.

The core of developing a low-carbon economy is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. On the one hand, it actively assumes responsibility for environmental protection and completes the requirements of the national energy conservation and consumption reduction targets. On the other hand, it adjusts the economic structure, improves energy efficiency, develops new industries, and builds ecological civilization. . Suggestions for this:

The first is to incorporate energy conservation and emission reduction targets into the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”. Zhejiang Province should determine its “Environmental Protection and Emission Reduction” during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period in accordance with its national goals and its actual conditions, and put forward specific projects, tasks, implementation methods, and time requirements, and set up a special structure to supervise and guide and make energy-saving and reduction. The normalization of platoon work will avoid the occurrence of the “sporty” phenomenon of closing power in order to complete the “Eleventh Five-Year” energy-saving emission reduction task in the second half of 2010, and promote the development of low-carbon economy in a solid and orderly manner.

The second is to actively encourage the research, development, and application of low-carbon technologies to increase energy consumption efficiency. Relevant data show that in 2009 China's energy consumption has exceeded the United States, ranking first in the world. When China's GDP accounted for 7% of the world's total production, it consumed 17% of the world's total energy consumption that year, which shows that China's energy consumption efficiency is low. Zhejiang's economy is dominated by traditional industries and is a major province of China's energy consumption. There is ample space for energy conservation and emission reduction. Encouraging research, development and application of low-carbon technologies is an inevitable choice for the development of a low-carbon economy.

With regard to the current status of low-carbon technologies at home and abroad, in the short term, we should focus on the research, development, and application of energy-saving and energy-efficiency-enhancing technologies, such as the clean, efficient development, and utilization of coal, oil, and natural gas, and renewable energy. And new energy technologies. It is suggested that the government increase investment in research and development of low-carbon technologies, encourage and guide financial institutions to increase credit support for circular economy, energy-saving and emission reduction technological transformation projects; organize the implementation of special research on low-carbon technologies, and promote the use of enterprises as the mainstay. The combination of academic research and development of energy-saving emission reduction technology innovation and achievements transformation system; formulate policies, encourage and support enterprises to carry out energy-saving emission reduction technological transformation, the use of new energy-saving environmental protection equipment, new processes, new technologies, accelerate the elimination of backward production capacity.

The third is to speed up the transformation and development and vigorously build low-carbon industries. “Development is the absolute principle”, and we cannot stop development and low-speed development in order to realize low-carbon development. However, the development lessons at the expense of high energy consumption and high pollution are painful, and we must speed up the transformation and development. On the one hand, we must strictly control the construction of high-energy-consuming and high-pollution projects, implement policies that limit high energy consumption, high-pollution production, and export of products, and must promote the strategic adjustment of the industrial structure;

On the other hand, we must vigorously develop high-tech industries and modern service industries. The low-carbon economy not only needs to assume a solemn responsibility, but also means a new development opportunity. It must develop more new economic growth points in the transition and transformation. It is estimated that in the next five years, the total output value of China's energy-saving and environmental protection industries can reach 4 trillion yuan. In order to get the most share of this big cake, it is imperative that we start with the initiative. Zhejiang should start planning to build a low-carbon development industry as soon as possible, and industries that are highly motivated and have great potential for development should give priority to fostering support. We must actively develop nuclear power generation and hydroelectric power generation and accelerate the development and utilization of wind energy and solar energy. It is suggested that more attention be paid to the development of the electric vehicle industry.

The fourth is to promote low-carbon consumption. Low-carbon economy includes low-carbon production and low-carbon consumption. We must use low-carbon concepts to plan urban and town development. In the construction of buildings, vigorously promote the use of solar energy, use natural ventilation and lighting as much as possible, promote appropriate decoration, use thermal insulation materials, energy-saving lamps, and energy-saving electrical appliances; in the urban traffic, attention should be paid to building a road system for the harmony of motor vehicles, automobiles, and pedestrians. , vigorously develop public transport, promote the use of new energy vehicles such as electric vehicles, promote low-carbon consumption concepts in the whole society, and refrain from “convenience consumption” habits at the expense of high energy consumption.

For example, open refrigerators used in supermarkets consume 20% more electricity than glass door freezers. One medium-sized supermarket uses open refrigerators and consumes 48,000 kWh of electricity for more than a year, which is equivalent to 19 tons of standard coal and 48 tons of carbon dioxide emissions. "Popular" supplies of consumer preferences. Such as limiting the use of disposable plastic bags, not only contain white pollution, but also its significance is to save the source of plastic - petroleum resources, emission reduction of carbon dioxide, according to estimates, the national reduction of 10% of plastic bags, can save energy 12,000 Tons of standard coal, 310,000 tons of carbon dioxide emission reduction; to quit "face consumption" and "luxury consumption" hobby. There are more and more luxury cars, high-grade cars and large-displacement private cars. Many developed countries are willing to use small, small-displacement cars. The penetration rate of private cars in Japan is about 80%. However, people do not rely on private cars for travel. In Tokyo, private cars generally travel 3000-5000 kilometers a year, while private cars in China generally travel 18,000 kilometers a year. The traffic congestion in cities such as Hangzhou, Ningbo, and Wenzhou in the province is severe. This is in contrast to the hobby of “face consumption” and “luxury”. Consumption is not unrelated.

The fifth is to strengthen the legal system and policy incentive mechanism for low-carbon economy. Formulating relevant laws, regulations and policies is an important measure to promote the development of a low-carbon economy. The current state should step up the formulation of laws such as the “Low-Carbon Economic Law,” “Renewable Energy Law,” and “Energy Conservation Law.” Laws related to the “Environmental Protection Law” and “Air Pollution Prevention Law” should be based on the development of a low-carbon economy. Required to make necessary changes.

Starting from the actual situation of the province, we must formulate and implement the national standards for mandatory energy-intensive products and mandatory national standards for energy environmental protection limits, increase the enforcement of energy-saving and emission-reduction laws, and carry out special inspections on energy-saving and environmental protection laws. We must adhere to law enforcement, enforce laws strictly, and break the law. Must be investigated. At the same time, it is necessary to improve the regular use of resources, establish ecological environmental compensation mechanisms, formulate and improve various policies to encourage energy conservation and emission reduction, and to use the functions of outdated mechanisms to make full use of emergency levers such as prices, taxes, finance, and finance to promote energy efficiency. Savings and environmental protection.