BEIJING, October 26 (TMTPOST)— China's State Council released the Action Plan to Reach Peak of Carbon Emissions before 2030 on Tuesday, a detailed top-level scheme to achieve the ten-year target by promoting the transition into low-carbon transport and aggressively expanding the application of hydrogen, natural gas, liquid biofuels and other new energies and clean energies in transportation.

At the weekend, the government issued a comprehensive roadmap through 2060, proposing to bring carbon emissions to peak and reduce the consumption share of non-fossil fuels to about 25% by 2030. The latest action plan projects a series of targets in transportation, particularly shifting the focus to new energy vehicles (NEVs). By 2030, the ration of vehicles powered by new energies and clean energies to all the additional vehicles shall reach to about 40%, the weekly carbon emission intensity levels converted from the transport operating units shall decrease about 9.5% from the levels of 2020, the weekly overall energy consumption converted from the traffic volume unit of China’s national railway shall be 10% lower than the consumption of 2020, and the petroleum consumption of land transport to reach the peak is a target China is struggling to realize in the decade. The plan also proposes to orderly promote building infrastructures such as electric vehicle (EV) charging stations and the supporting power grid, natural gas fueling stations, hydrogen fueling stations, and improve the urban public transport infrastructure. All the civil transport airports are set to adopt EVs by 2030.

The roadmap and action plan came ahead of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties summit, (COP26) early next month, when the world leaders and national negotiators will seek to reach an agreement on national climate targets through 2030. One of the key goals of COP26’s updated targets is to reach net zero carbon emissions by the mid of the century, as the initial targets in 2015 were too weak to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and avoid rising global temperatures through at least mid-century.