What are the key points to focus on next?, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang Border Demonstration Zone | Ecology | Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang
Ecological green is the essence and background of the Yangtze River Delta Ecological Green Integration Development Demonstration Zone, as well as the characteristic and bright color of the demonstration zone. In the three years since the establishment of the demonstration zone, many innovative explorations have been made in ecological environment governance and protection, and a series of positive results have also been achieved. For example, we have pioneered the "three unifications" system of cross provincial ecological environment standards, monitoring, and law enforcement, especially clarifying the use of a "set of standards" to regulate the ecological environment protection work in demonstration areas, laying the foundation for promoting ecological environment transactions in the next step; We have pioneered the joint river and lake chief system, which has created a new situation of regional joint water management by implementing the "five mechanisms" of river chief joint patrol mechanism, river and lake joint cleaning mechanism, water quality joint monitoring mechanism, joint law enforcement consultation mechanism, and river and lake joint governance mechanism. The "cross-border joint river chief system" has also been selected as a case study of the Central Organization Department's tackling difficulties and 50 typical cases of China's reform in 2020; We have pioneered a cross provincial near zero carbon special plan and formulated the "Water Town Living Room Near Zero Carbon Special Plan" to jointly explore a new model of near zero carbon transformation and development of "cross regional governance, low-carbon resilience, and smart win-win", accumulating replicable and promotable experience for achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality in the Yangtze River Delta. In the past three years, the demonstration zone has focused more on laying a foundation and promoting long-term development in the ecological environment, mainly focusing on collaborative promotion of ecological governance and environmental protection. Although the Implementation Plan for Establishing and Improving the Mechanism for Realizing the Value of Ecological Products has also been formulated, there is still relatively little effective exploration in the transformation of ecological value. In the next three years, the demonstration zone should better reflect the value of green mountains and clear waters, focusing on the following five aspects: first, accelerate the establishment of a unified ecological product evaluation path. At present, only Jiashan has established a GEP accounting mechanism among the three demonstration areas, accounting for a total ecosystem production value of 58.731 billion yuan in 2021, and has issued the first GEP ecological value loan. However, Qingpu and Wujiang have not yet conducted accounting. At present, the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Bureau of Statistics have issued the "Accounting Standards for the Gross Value of Ecological Products", clarifying unified accounting standards. Next, the demonstration zone should rely on resource endowments such as water, forest, farmland, lakes, and rivers to carry out basic information surveys on ecological products, understand the quantity and quality of various ecological products, especially the carbon balance. On this basis, explore ecological value accounting with a focus on the physical quantity of ecological products, and incorporate the basic data of ecological product value accounting into the national economic accounting system, taking the lead in forming cross provincial ecological product value accounting standards. The second is to accelerate the establishment of a unified ecological value realization path. At present, the demonstration zone has released the Implementation Plan for the Development of Green Finance, but there are still not many products and scenarios for green finance. Next, the demonstration zone should rely on public resource trading platforms, explore carbon sink equity trading pilot projects, and establish energy use