The report from the Council for Sustainable Development, which advises the government on environmental matters, drew on more than 71,000 responses to a public engagement exercise in June last year to formulate 55 recommendations covering sectors such as energy generation, transport and urban design.
“It is not easy to achieve a net zero carbon target by 2050, but the council thinks it is a responsible and appropriate choice,” Beijing had already announced it would cut all of China’s greenhouse emissions by 2060, while Japan and South Korea have both recently said they would be carbon neutral by 2050.
