China’s State Council released the 2024-2025 action plan on energy saving and carbon reduction in late May, proposing to further control the consumption of fossil energy.
In 2024, the action plan calls for reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions per unit of GDP by 2.5 percent and 3.9 percent respectively, and to cut energy consumption of per unit value-added output for enterprises above designated size (with annual revenue of at least US$2.8m) by 3.5 percent.
The action plan expects that in 2024, China’s consumption of non-fossil energy will account for 18.9 percent of the total, the rate of which will further increase to 20 percent in 2025, with the scale of energy saving in key areas and industries reaching about 50 million tons of standard coal and 130 million tons of carbon.
To achieve the objectives, the action plan lists 27 specific tasks in key industries like steel, petrochemicals, nonferrous metals and construction, and also proposes to speed up the construction of large-scale wind power and photovoltaic bases in deserts and wilderness areas.
According to an annual report on responding to climate change issued by China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment in November 2023, China’s carbon emissions per unit of GDP in 2022 dropped by over 51 percent compared to that in 2005 and the consumption of non-fossil energy in 2022 reached 17.5 percent of the total.
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