Guiding Global Climate Governance and Domestic Response …
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global cooperation and actions in tackling climate change, so that China can take
the international moral vantage point to enhance its national image and leadership,
maintain and gain more interests, and demonstrate its soft power.
2 Changing Values and Development Methods Based on Xi
Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization
It is very urgent to curb greenhouse gas emissions to limit the global temperature
increase to 2 °C in this century. The key to achieving net zero carbon emissions by the
second half of the twenty-first century depends on the transformation of the energy
system and development patterns in the next 20–30 years. Failure to do so would
result in global heating of 3–4 °C—a possibility that would have an irreversibly
catastrophic and devastating impact on the earth’s ecological security. Therefore, it
is urgent for all countries to keep up their response.
To respond to climate change under the global framework of sustainable development and to achieve both sustainable economic and social development of all countries and the earth’s ecological security, we must change the development concepts,
values, codes of conduct, and production and consumption methods under industrial
civilization to move towards ecological civilization. Comrade Xi Jinping emphasized
the need to “establish and improve a cultural system based on the values of ecological
civilization,” and transform economic and social development methods by changing
ideological concepts. China must use Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization as a guide to promote domestic and even global awareness of ecological risk
management, transform ideas and concepts, prompt countries, cities, enterprises, and
the public to voluntarily reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and get people involved
in joint efforts. Xi Jinping pointed out that a good ecological environment is the
fairest public product that is the most accessible welfare for the people. He insisted
on ecological civilization that will benefit the people and meet their growing needs
for a beautiful ecological environment. Moreover, it of great significance to promote
China’s traditional culture of “unification between nature and man” and “the Taoist
idea to follow the laws of nature,” promote a simple and modest way of life, help
transform values and consumption patterns worldwide, and enhance the influence
and soft power of Chinese traditional culture and socialist values on the international
community.
While guiding the transformation of social development concepts and values
with the idea of ecological civilization, China has been strengthening its ecological civilization and governance system, incorporating it into the legal system to
coordinate all aspects involving the economy, society, and resources and the environment to effectively prevent and control ecological and environmental risks. Xi
Jinping emphasized the need to use the strictest system and rule of law to protect the
ecological environment, promote system innovation, accelerate building an ecological civilization management system, establish a target responsibility system with
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global cooperation and actions in tackling climate change, so that China can take
the international moral vantage point to enhance its national image and leadership,
maintain and gain more interests, and demonstrate its soft power.
2 Changing Values and Development Methods Based on Xi
Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization
It is very urgent to curb greenhouse gas emissions to limit the global temperature
increase to 2 °C in this century. The key to achieving net zero carbon emissions by the
second half of the twenty-first century depends on the transformation of the energy
system and development patterns in the next 20–30 years. Failure to do so would
result in global heating of 3–4 °C—a possibility that would have an irreversibly
catastrophic and devastating impact on the earth’s ecological security. Therefore, it
is urgent for all countries to keep up their response.
To respond to climate change under the global framework of sustainable development and to achieve both sustainable economic and social development of all countries and the earth’s ecological security, we must change the development concepts,
values, codes of conduct, and production and consumption methods under industrial
civilization to move towards ecological civilization. Comrade Xi Jinping emphasized
the need to “establish and improve a cultural system based on the values of ecological
civilization,” and transform economic and social development methods by changing
ideological concepts. China must use Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization as a guide to promote domestic and even global awareness of ecological risk
management, transform ideas and concepts, prompt countries, cities, enterprises, and
the public to voluntarily reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and get people involved
in joint efforts. Xi Jinping pointed out that a good ecological environment is the
fairest public product that is the most accessible welfare for the people. He insisted
on ecological civilization that will benefit the people and meet their growing needs
for a beautiful ecological environment. Moreover, it of great significance to promote
China’s traditional culture of “unification between nature and man” and “the Taoist
idea to follow the laws of nature,” promote a simple and modest way of life, help
transform values and consumption patterns worldwide, and enhance the influence
and soft power of Chinese traditional culture and socialist values on the international
community.
While guiding the transformation of social development concepts and values
with the idea of ecological civilization, China has been strengthening its ecological civilization and governance system, incorporating it into the legal system to
coordinate all aspects involving the economy, society, and resources and the environment to effectively prevent and control ecological and environmental risks. Xi
Jinping emphasized the need to use the strictest system and rule of law to protect the
ecological environment, promote system innovation, accelerate building an ecological civilization management system, establish a target responsibility system with