Guiding Global Climate Governance
and Domestic Response Actions with Xi
Jinping Thought on Ecological
Civilization
Jiankun He
Promoting the building of ecological civilization while taking the path of sustainable
development in a green and low-carbon circle is China’s basic strategy to reduce the
ever-increasing resource and environmental constraints and build a socialist modern
power in a new era. It is also a global response to ecological crisis, among which
climate change is the most serious threat, to achieve harmony between man and
nature as well as the sustainable development of human society. China should follow
Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization to thoroughly improve its ecological
environment and build a beautiful China, while contributing its wisdom and approach
to help preserve the earth’s ecology, and taking the lead in building global ecological
civilization.
1 Guiding the Global Climate Governance
and Cooperation Process with Xi Jinping Thought
on Ecological Civilization and the Concept
of a Community with a Shared Future
The report of the 19th National Congress listed climate change as an unconventional threat to a global security and a common challenge facing mankind. The core
of tackling climate change is to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas
emissions from human activities, control the concentration of greenhouse gases in
the atmosphere, and slow down climate warming. The Paris Agreement adopted by
the United Nations Climate Conference at the end of 2015 includes commitments
from all the parties through a “bottom-top” mechanism, aiming to cut global greenhouse gas emissions to limit the global temperature increase in this century to 2 °C,
J. He (B)
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
© China Environment Publishing Group Co., Ltd. 2021
J. Pan et al. (eds.), Beautiful China: 70 Years Since 1949 and 70 People’s Views
on Eco-civilization Construction, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6742-5_69
697
and Domestic Response Actions with Xi
Jinping Thought on Ecological
Civilization
Jiankun He
Promoting the building of ecological civilization while taking the path of sustainable
development in a green and low-carbon circle is China’s basic strategy to reduce the
ever-increasing resource and environmental constraints and build a socialist modern
power in a new era. It is also a global response to ecological crisis, among which
climate change is the most serious threat, to achieve harmony between man and
nature as well as the sustainable development of human society. China should follow
Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization to thoroughly improve its ecological
environment and build a beautiful China, while contributing its wisdom and approach
to help preserve the earth’s ecology, and taking the lead in building global ecological
civilization.
1 Guiding the Global Climate Governance
and Cooperation Process with Xi Jinping Thought
on Ecological Civilization and the Concept
of a Community with a Shared Future
The report of the 19th National Congress listed climate change as an unconventional threat to a global security and a common challenge facing mankind. The core
of tackling climate change is to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas
emissions from human activities, control the concentration of greenhouse gases in
the atmosphere, and slow down climate warming. The Paris Agreement adopted by
the United Nations Climate Conference at the end of 2015 includes commitments
from all the parties through a “bottom-top” mechanism, aiming to cut global greenhouse gas emissions to limit the global temperature increase in this century to 2 °C,
J. He (B)
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
© China Environment Publishing Group Co., Ltd. 2021
J. Pan et al. (eds.), Beautiful China: 70 Years Since 1949 and 70 People’s Views
on Eco-civilization Construction, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6742-5_69
697