The "Measures for the Management of Low-carbon Product Certification (Interim)" and relevant technical support documents jointly formulated by the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Certification and Accreditation Regulatory Commission will be issued in the near future. At that time, the nationwide implementation of a voluntary low-carbon product certification system will be implemented in China.
With the deepening of the concept of environmental protection, China has implemented a number of energy conservation and environmental protection product certifications in recent years.
In terms of energy-saving products, in 2006, the national "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" outline was clear, and a mandatory performance-based labeling system and an energy-saving product certification system were implemented. In 2008, the “Circular of the General Office of the State Council on Deepening Energy Conservation Actions for All People†also proposed to encourage and guide consumers to purchase a variety of goods that use energy efficiency labeling above class 2 or have energy saving product certification marks.
According to Tang Dingding, director of the Environment Development Center of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, as early as in 2009, the center launched the research and development of "China's environmental labeling low carbon products" certification. A year later, the Ministry of Environmental Protection issued four products of China's environmental labeling standards for low-carbon products.
For the current multi-certification system of energy-saving products, environmental protection products and future low-carbon products, an expert from the domestic quality inspection system, who declined to be named, explained that for consumers, energy-saving products focus on saving energy costs (such as electricity prices, Water prices, etc.) Environmental products focus on reducing the emission of toxic and harmful substances (such as formaldehyde on wooden floors), while low-carbon products focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Ministry of Environmental Protection’s “China Low Carbon Product Environmental Label†is limited to a few products such as household refrigeration appliances, household electric washing machines, multi-function copying equipment, and digital integrated printers.
According to Qian Guoqiang, a domestic carbon reduction expert who participated in the negotiations of the “Kyoto Protocol†as a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in fact, multiple certifications are not exclusive with each other. Whoever wins the voluntary certification in the future will be able to win from the taxation department. Government support policies such as preferential procurement, financial subsidies and tax reductions, and who can win the recognition of the low-carbon marks of international authoritative institutions and developed countries can expand their scope of use.
China Quality Certification Center (abbreviated as C Q C ) undertook the research work of the “Research on China's Special Low-Carbon Certification System for Addressing Climate Change†jointly implemented by the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Certification and Accreditation Administration. CQ C Minister of Low Carbon and Energy Efficiency Tian Xiaofei told the "Economic Information Daily" reporter that China will establish a unified low-carbon product certification system. Implement a unified catalogue of low-carbon products, unified national standards, certification technical specifications and certification rules, and uniform certification certificates and certification marks. The catalogue of national low-carbon product certifications will be formulated, adjusted and released by the relevant national authorities. These include the "Technical Specifications for Certification of Low-carbon Products" (referred to as "Technical Specifications") and "Evaluation Indicators for Carbon Reduction of Low-carbon Products". Product producers or sellers can commission certification bodies to carry out low-carbon product certifications.
The reporter learned from relevant units that according to the preliminary design, the validity period of the low-carbon product certification certificate is 3 years. No organization or individual may forge, alter, fraudulently use, buy, sell, or transfer low-carbon product certifications and certification marks.
The explanation provided by CQC to reporters is that it differs from energy-saving products and environmental protection products. Low-carbon products refer to carbon emission values ​​that are in line with national standards or technical specifications of similar products or products with the same function. Low-carbon evaluation indicators required products.
It is reported that at present, the "low-carbon product evaluation program" in the "Technical Specification" is based on existing national standards, market, and company research. It sets evaluation indicators for different stages of the product life cycle, and each of the indicators sets an emission limit. For example, set low-carbon related property limits such as "recyclability" for household refrigerators.
According to reports, once the policy is in place, the "technical specifications" are expected to include four types of energy-using products and two kinds of non-energy-using products. The difference between the two is whether energy is used during the use phase (such as secondary energy such as electricity, or primary energy such as coal). For example, special materials commonly used on the northern building walls do not use energy directly after installation, but they can be insulated and insulated to reduce the use of air conditioning in buildings, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The two departments set up technical thresholds for manufacturers of "low-carbon products". Specifically, energy use products will adopt the "laboratory testing" plus "on-site verification" and "tracking inspection" certification models; non-energy products will adopt the "on-site verification" plus "tracking inspection" certification model.
Taking the household refrigerator as an example, the Climate Division of the National Development and Reform Commission will publish the emission factors of the major regional power grids. The national certification body will monitor the energy meter of each production company and allocate the electricity consumption to each product. Simply put, the electricity consumption multiplied by the emission factor is the carbon footprint.
Tian Xiaofei introduced that "low-carbon product certification" is to solve the energy-saving products in the past "energy-saving is not low-carbon" problem. For example, first-class energy-efficient air conditioners are usually more expensive than second-class energy-efficient air conditioners, and some products are more expensive than copper used in heat exchangers. Although electricity is saved, the carbon emissions from copper mining and smelting processes are extremely high. The former uses 3 kg of copper, while the latter uses 1 kg of copper. Although the latter has lower energy efficiency, it is much less carbon-rich than the former.
This involves a concept "product life cycle." "If the improvement of the air-conditioner energy efficiency ratio is not through technological innovation, but through excessive use of copper materials, but it is not possible to effectively recover these copper materials, then the product is low-carbon from the use stage; but from the raw material collection, product The recovery and other phases are high-carbon,†Tian Xiaofei explained.
Throughout the world, in order to promote the development of a low-carbon economy and encourage companies to produce low-carbon products and provide low-carbon services, more and more countries, with the support and advocacy of relevant agencies, assess and disclose the carbon emissions in the product life cycle. , to the product of the carbon mark, carry out low-carbon product certification.
In 2006, the Carbon Trust launched the “CarbonTrust on R ed u ctio n L ab el Schem eâ€, and became a light front to create a low-carbon product certification. Currently, it has included More than 20 vendors such as esco, Coca Cola and Boots provide services. In October 2008, the United Kingdom formally issued the P A S 2050 "Product Carbon Footprint Verification" standard. Currently, many countries, organizations and companies have made reference to this standard in their carbon emission assessment activities.
However, the "Product Lifecycle" program did not appear in "Management Measures." Officials and experts involved in the formulation believe that domestic companies have not established a complete set of carbon emissions database from raw materials, intermediate goods, manufactured goods, retailers, and consumers, and have not yet established a compulsory product recycling system for waste products. It is also difficult for distributors to monitor the carbon emissions from mobile sources during transportation, so implementing a “carbon footprint†is not realistic. The "Management Measures" focuses on the stages of raw material collection, product manufacturing, and use.
Qian Guoqiang reminded that as the domestic low-carbon product certification system does not consider adopting the “full life cycle†model, Wal-Mart, IKEA, etc. in developed countries voluntarily practice “low-carbon†or even “zero-carbon†large companies in the procurement process. Carbon emission standards have brought increasing pressure on upstream suppliers in China. Therefore, as the "12th Five-Year" and even "13th Five-Year" countries gradually establish carbon emission monitoring, accounting and verification systems based on industry and regions. It is also necessary for China to transition to the “full life cycle†mode at an appropriate time to increase the ability of domestic suppliers to respond to carbon trade barriers.
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