The China-initiated Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO) and the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on Monday jointly released an action plan for implementing the Paris Agreement.
The Think Tank Alliance of Global Energy Interconnection was also officially set up on the same day at the ongoing 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24).
The action plan comprehensively aligns the six major topics of the Paris Agreement on mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology, capacity-building and transparency, puts forward a Chinese plan to promote the Paris Agreement from five aspects of the development situation, emission reduction scheme, synergy thinking, continent action and governance mechanism. It provides a global emission reduction path to the temperature rising control target of 2 Celsius degrees, and an action carrier and mechanism guarantee for countries to carry out practical cooperation in achieving low-carbon development.
China's Special Representative on Climate Change Xie Zhenhua said: "The global energy interconnection will help realize the shift from the dominance of fossil energy into the dominance of clean energy, the shift of energy allocation from local balance to transnational balance and wider area allocation, the shift of energy consumption from coal, oil and gas to green power, thus playing a crucial role in resolving the global carbon emission problems from the roots and realizing the rising temperature control target of 2 degrees and even 1.5 degrees Celsius."
In 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping put forward a major initiative of building a global energy interconnection at the United Nations development summit, providing a systematic solution to the world's energy transition, climate change and sustainable development. The global energy interconnection initiative is, therefore, hailed as a Chinese solution to address climate change and implement the Paris Agreement.
"The Global Energy Interconnection provides the world with a technically-advanced, economically efficient, practically feasible and easily-spreading solution to implementing the Paris Agreement. It will have an important and far-reaching impact on climate governance and energy revolution," said Liu Zhenya, chairman of the Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO).
Ovais Sarmad, deputy executive secretary of the UNFCCC, spoke highly of the action plan.
He said: "The global energy international guide organization implementing the climate action plan that they have just released is an extremely important, a very ambitious plan that we are very much looking forward to having it fully implemented, because that goes towards the implementation of Paris Agreement goals and targets. And this action plan is a fantastic tool to realize the potential of Paris Agreement."
Autor: gf / Źródło: TVN24 International, Reuters