It is mainly to replace high-carbon energy with low-carbon energy, promote effective utilization and conservation of energy, popularize renewable energy, encourage low-carbon transformation of energy production and consumption, and strengthen technological innovation and industrial cooperation. Low-carbon economy aims to achieve a win-win situation of economic growth and environmental protection and create conditions for sustainable development.
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Low carbon means lower emissions of greenhouse gases (mainly carbon dioxide). With the development of world industrial economy, the rapid increase of population, the unlimited rise of human desire and the uncontrolled production and lifestyle, the world climate is facing more and more serious problems.
The emission of carbon dioxide is increasing, the ozone layer of the earth is suffering from an unprecedented crisis, and the global catastrophic climate change appears frequently, which has seriously endangered the living environment and health and safety of human beings. Even the rapid growth or expansion of GDP, which mankind once prided itself on, has been greatly reduced by environmental pollution and climate change. A life that reduces carbon dioxide emissions is called a low-carbon life.
Since the industrial revolution, due to human activities, especially the exploitation and burning of fossil energy such as coal, the content of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere has increased sharply, leading to global climate change characterized by climate warming.
Meteorologists say that the water vapor, ozone, carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere can penetrate the short-wave radiation of the sun, warming the earth's surface, and at the same time preventing the earth's surface from emitting long-wave radiation into space, thus warming the atmosphere. Because the role of gases such as carbon dioxide is similar to that of "greenhouse", it is called greenhouse gas.
Besides carbon dioxide, other gases include methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas with large global emissions, high warming effect and long life cycle, which has the greatest impact on climate change. According to the research report of Oak Ridge Laboratory in the United States, since 1750, the world has emitted more than one trillion tons of carbon dioxide/kloc-0, of which developed countries account for about 80%.
Low carbon aims to advocate an economic model based on low energy consumption, low pollution and low emissions, and reduce harmful gas emissions. In recent years, many fund products take the concept of low carbon as the investment target, which meets the requirements of green economy development and has achieved good results. HSBC Jintrust Low-carbon Pioneer is the first low-carbon economic concept fund in China.