李怒云：构建中国自主碳清除与自然信用机制 助力全球气候治理

Core Viewpoint - The 2025 China Sustainable Investment Development Forum emphasizes the integration of technology and sustainable development, focusing on establishing independent carbon removal credit mechanisms and natural credit systems that are globally oriented [1][12]. Group 1: Key Developments at the Forum - The forum featured a speech by Li Nuyun, highlighting the outcomes of the recent Brazil Belém Climate Conference, which marked the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, with participation from 194 parties and over 2,000 observer organizations [3][8]. - A significant breakthrough at the conference was the launch of the "Forever Tropical Forest Protection Fund," which defines forests as "quantifiable global public assets," paving the way for integrating natural capital into the global financial system [3][8]. Group 2: Global Carbon Market Insights - The global carbon market is categorized into international compliance markets, domestic mandatory compliance markets, and voluntary carbon markets, with various mechanisms for supplying carbon credits [4][9]. - Current challenges in the voluntary carbon market include quality inconsistencies leading to a trust crisis, supply-demand imbalances causing low prices, fragmented standards across nearly 30 independent carbon offset mechanisms, and a pressing need to shift from scale expansion to quality enhancement [4][10]. Group 3: Challenges in the Chinese Market - China faces four core challenges: reliance on foreign standards for carbon credits despite having rich resources, insufficient domestic supply to meet the growing demand from outbound enterprises, ineffective conversion of emission reduction achievements along the Belt and Road into carbon credit benefits, and the urgent need for innovative financing mechanisms for biodiversity protection, with a global funding gap of over $700 billion annually [5][10]. Group 4: Proposed Solutions - To address these challenges, Li Nuyun's team is developing two standard systems: "Green Certified Carbon Removal," focusing on permanently removing CO2 from the atmosphere, and "Natural Credit," which converts biodiversity protection gains into verifiable and tradable credits [6][11]. - The establishment of these standards is strategically significant for enhancing China's influence in global carbon pricing and climate governance, while also providing standardized solutions for corporate ESG compliance and biodiversity protection [6][11].