According to the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission, the State Administration for Market Regulation, and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment issued an action plan to further strengthen the construction of the carbon peak and carbon neutrality standard measurement system (2024-2025).

Notice of the National Development and Reform Commission, the State Administration for Market Regulation and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment on the Action Plan for Further Strengthening the Construction of the Standard and Measurement System for Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality (2024-2025)

NDRC Huanzi [2024] No. 1046

To the Development and Reform Commissions, Market Supervision Bureaus (Departments, Commissions), and Ecological Environment Bureaus (Departments) of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps:

To implement the major strategic decisions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, thoroughly implement the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Completely and Accurately Implementing the New Development Concept and Doing a Good Job in Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality", the "National Standardization Development Outline", and the "Measurement Development Plan (2021-2035)", implement the various tasks and arrangements of the "Implementation Plan for Establishing and Improving the Standard and Measurement System for Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality", give full play to the role of measurement and standards, and effectively support the construction of China's carbon emission dual control and carbon pricing policy system, this action plan is formulated. The relevant matters are hereby notified as follows.

I. Overall Objectives

In accordance with the principles of systematic advancement, priority for urgent needs, and open collaboration, a number of national standards will be developed around key areas, a number of group standards will be adopted, a number of international standards will be broken through, and a number of standardization pilot projects will be launched. In 2024, 70 national standards for carbon accounting, carbon footprint, carbon emission reduction, energy efficiency and energy consumption, carbon capture, utilization and storage will be issued, and the carbon emission accounting standards for key industries and enterprises will be basically covered. In 2025, a three-in-one carbon emission accounting and evaluation standard system for enterprises, projects and products will be basically formed, and the technical indicators of energy consumption and energy efficiency of key industries and products will basically reach the international advanced level, and 100 enterprises and parks will be built for carbon emission management standardization pilot projects.

In accordance with the principles of coordinated development, demand-driven, and innovative breakthroughs, strengthen the construction of basic carbon measurement capabilities, improve the carbon measurement system, and enhance the level of carbon measurement service support. By the end of 2025, 20 measurement standards and reference materials will be developed, 25 key measurement technology studies will be carried out, 50 national measurement technical specifications in the field of "dual carbon" will be formulated, and major breakthroughs will be made in carbon measurement technology in key areas. The carbon measurement capabilities of key energy-consuming and carbon-emitting units will be basically in place, and the deployment of carbon emission measurement instruments and the verification and calibration of related instruments and equipment will be steadily advanced.

II. Key Tasks

(I) Accelerate the development of enterprise carbon emission accounting standards. Accelerate the research and revision of carbon emission accounting standards and technical specifications for key industries such as electricity, coal, steel, nonferrous metals, textiles, transportation, building materials, petrochemicals, chemicals, and construction, formulate relevant supporting technical specifications such as greenhouse gas verification and low-carbon evaluation, support enterprise carbon emission accounting work, and effectively serve the construction of China's carbon emission trading market. Formulate carbon emission accounting and evaluation standards for parks.

(II) Strengthen the construction of product carbon footprint and carbon labeling standards. Release the national standard for the general requirements for product carbon footprint quantification, and unify the carbon footprint accounting principles, accounting methods, data quality and other requirements for specific products. Accelerate the development of national standards for carbon footprints of new energy vehicles, photovoltaics, lithium batteries and other products to serve new advantages in foreign trade exports. Carry out the development of carbon footprint standards for key products such as electronic appliances, plastics, and building materials. Study and formulate product carbon labeling certification management methods, and develop relevant national standards for carbon labeling.

(III) Increase the supply of project carbon emission reduction standards. Carry out the development of carbon emission reduction accounting standards for typical projects such as energy efficiency improvement, renewable energy utilization, surplus energy utilization, methane emission reduction and utilization. When conditions are ripe, promote the inclusion of China's voluntary greenhouse gas emission reduction project methodology into the national standard system, support the construction of China's voluntary greenhouse gas emission reduction trading market and corporate environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) information disclosure and other application scenarios.

(IV) Promote the research and development of carbon emission reduction and carbon removal technology standards. Accelerate the development of key carbon emission reduction technology standards such as hydrogen metallurgy, raw material substitution, heat pumps, and photovoltaic utilization, and adopt a number of advanced group standards in the field of carbon reduction technology. Formulate carbon removal technology standards such as ecological carbon sinks, carbon capture, utilization and storage, and issue general standards such as carbon capture, utilization and storage quantification and verification, and related terminology as soon as possible. Speed up the construction of a full-chain standard system for carbon dioxide capture, transportation, and geological storage.

(V) Improve energy consumption standards in the industrial field. Revise and increase the energy consumption limit standards for key industries such as steel, oil refining, coal-fired power generation units, pulp and paper making, industrial caustic soda, and rare earth smelting, comprehensively improve energy efficiency levels, and basically reach international advanced levels. Revise and improve energy metering, monitoring, auditing and other energy-saving supporting standards.

(VI) Accelerate the updating and upgrading of product energy efficiency standards. Benchmarking against international advanced levels, revise and upgrade the energy efficiency standards for industrial general equipment, refrigeration and heating equipment, office equipment, kitchen appliances, and lighting products, expand the coverage of energy-efficient products, accelerate the development of energy efficiency standards for new infrastructure such as electric vehicle charging piles and fifth-generation mobile communication (5G) base station equipment, include high-voltage motors, servers and other products in energy efficiency labeling management, and study and issue implementation details for data center energy efficiency labels.

(VII) Strengthen the development of recycling standards for key products and equipment. Formulate recycling and disassembly standards for automobiles, electronic products, household appliances, etc., and study and formulate relevant standards for the recycling of agricultural machinery parts. Carry out the development of recycling standards for retired photovoltaic equipment, wind power equipment, and power batteries, increase the supply of green design standards for new energy products and equipment, and accelerate the development of standards for recycled plastics and recycled metals. In accordance with the requirements of the "General Principles of Clean Production Evaluation Index System", develop a series of national standards for clean production evaluation in key industries such as steel, chemicals, and building materials.

(VIII) Expand the supply of green product evaluation standards. Revise the general principles for green product evaluation, add low-carbon indicators, and establish a hierarchical evaluation index system. Study and formulate relevant standards for green certificates and green electricity consumption. Based on consumer products, formulate national standards for green product evaluation of industrial products such as steel pipes, building materials, and dyes, and revise green product evaluation standards for sanitary ceramics, architectural ceramics, paper and paper products. Make full use of market resources and include group standards with leading technology and high market maturity in the list of green product evaluation standards.

(IX) Strengthen the construction of basic capabilities for carbon measurement. In order to meet the needs of improving carbon emission statistics and carbon monitoring, we will plan and build a number of metrology standards and reference materials, accelerate the construction of the traceability system for the transfer of carbon peak and carbon neutrality related values, establish a list of metrology benchmarks, metrology standards and reference materials related to carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and continue to do a good job in the verification and calibration of carbon-related metrology instruments.

(10) Strengthen the development and application of "dual carbon" related metrology instruments. Accelerate the development of high-precision multi-component gas rapid analysis detectors, spectrometers and other carbon accounting and carbon monitoring related metrology instruments. Organize metrology performance testing and evaluation of domestic carbon emission online monitoring systems (CEMS).

(11) Strengthen the support and guarantee of metrology for carbon emission accounting. Formulate the deployment and management specifications of carbon metering instruments for key emission units, and promote the deployment of carbon emission metering instruments for enterprises. Optimize the accounting and reporting guidelines for greenhouse gas emissions in related industries, and strengthen the requirement that carbon accounting data should be derived from metrology instruments first. Give full play to the role of the national energy consumption online monitoring system, and encourage enterprises to use fifth-generation mobile communications (5G), blockchain and other technical means to establish energy and carbon emission data collection and analysis systems. In accordance with the needs of the national greenhouse gas emission factor database construction, explore the establishment of a national greenhouse gas emission factor measurement and verification platform.

(XII) Conduct research on common key carbon measurement technologies. Conduct research on measurement uncertainty assessment methods for online carbon emission monitoring, continue to conduct research and application of carbon emission monitoring and measurement technologies based on lidar, regional and urban scale inversion, and conduct research on key measurement technologies for carbon capture, utilization and storage at the flue gas capture end, and provide measurement support for carbon emission statistics and accounting, online carbon emission monitoring, and low-carbon technology research.

(XIII) Strengthen research on measurement technologies in key areas. Promote the strengthening of carbon measurement technology research in key industries and fields such as thermal power, steel, cement, petrochemicals, chemicals, and nonferrous metals, conduct comparative research on carbon emission direct measurement methods and accounting methods, and measurement research on natural gas emission factors, and develop gas concentration calibration devices for continuous flue gas emission monitoring systems in the thermal power field to continuously improve the accuracy and consistency of carbon emissions and carbon monitoring data.

(XIV) Strengthen the construction of carbon measurement centers. Promote the construction of the National Carbon Measurement Center, study and formulate the "Guiding Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of the National Carbon Measurement Center", and strengthen the top-level system design and construction tasks of the National Carbon Measurement Center. Study and formulate a guidance catalog for carbon measurement capacity building, guide measurement technical institutions and key emission units to strengthen carbon measurement capacity building, and continuously improve carbon measurement capacity.

(15) Improve the relevant measurement technical specifications for "dual carbon". Strengthen the formulation and revision of "dual carbon" measurement technical specifications, and compile measurement technical specifications such as carbon measurement review specifications for key emission units, calibration of continuous monitoring systems for carbon dioxide emissions from fixed pollution sources, and configuration and management of carbon measurement equipment for coal chemical production enterprises.

(16) Strengthen energy measurement supervision and management. Organize various regions to carry out energy measurement reviews in traditional industries such as construction and building materials, petrochemicals, energy, and steel, as well as key areas such as data centers and public institutions, to help energy-consuming units solve energy-saving, emission-reduction and carbon reduction measurement problems, and continuously improve the energy measurement management level and capabilities of energy-consuming units.

III. Guarantee measures

(I) Strengthen overall coordination. The National Development and Reform Commission implements the relevant coordination responsibilities of "dual carbon", and works with relevant departments to strengthen relevant measurement and standard requirements in the formulation of carbon peak and carbon neutrality policy documents, and promote the implementation of various policy requirements. Give full play to the role of the National Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality Standardization General Group, China Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality Measurement Technical Committee and China Carbon Emission Management Standardization Technical Committee. All relevant departments strengthen coordination and linkage in accordance with their respective areas of responsibility, each perform their duties and responsibilities, and focus on promoting the implementation of key tasks to effectively form a working synergy.

(ii) Strengthen publicity and implementation training. Carry out publicity and implementation training on carbon accounting, carbon emission reduction-related measurement and standard knowledge, enhance the measurement awareness and ability level of enterprises, and form an atmosphere of learning and using standards in enterprises. Promote key energy-consuming and carbon emission units to establish a carbon emission management system, set up energy and carbon emission management positions and special measurement and standardization personnel. Encourage enterprises to cooperate with relevant universities and professional institutions to hold professional talent training courses in carbon peak and carbon neutrality measurement and standards.

(iii) Carry out pilot projects. Carry out carbon emission management standardization pilot projects for enterprises and parks, encourage enterprises to establish carbon emission standard management systems, help carbon emissions to be "calculated and calculated accurately", guide enterprises to apply advanced emission reduction technologies, and promote carbon emissions to be "reduced and reduced". By 2025, 100 pilot enterprises and parks will be built. Promote enterprises to strengthen the construction of carbon measurement systems, strengthen carbon measurement requirements, and organize more than 200 enterprises in Shandong, Zhejiang and other places to carry out carbon measurement review pilot projects. Organize and carry out zero-carbon park measurement pilot projects and energy resource measurement experience exchanges.

(IV) Increase financial support. Finance at all levels will increase support for the construction of basic carbon measurement capabilities, basic general and urgent advanced standards through the establishment of special funds. Coordinate the use of funding channels, actively guide social capital investment, support carbon emission statistics and accounting and carbon monitoring key measurement technology research, instrument equipment development and application, and measurement technology specification formulation.

(V) Deepen international cooperation. Continue to promote international cooperation in the field of metrology and standards for addressing climate change, give full play to the key role of Chinese experts in international metrology and standardization organizations, and continuously enhance China's participation and contribution in addressing climate change. Continue to conduct applicability analysis of international standards, propose a number of international standard proposals in the fields of electric vehicles, new power systems, ecological carbon sinks, etc., and strengthen international cooperation in new fields and new technologies.

National Development and Reform Commission

State Administration for Market Regulation

Ministry of Ecology and Environment

July 14, 2024

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