Today's low-carbon economy refers to the reduction of high-carbon energy consumption such as coal and petroleum and the reduction of greenhouses through various means such as technological innovation, institutional innovation, industrial transformation, and new energy development under the guidance of the concept of sustainable development. Gas emissions are a form of economic development that achieves win-win economic and social development and environmental protection.

With the continuous increase of the global population and economic scale, coal, oil, natural gas and other energy are consumed in large quantities, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising, the global climate is warming, and the environment and energy dilemma facing human survival and development are increasingly prominent.

The Chinese government attaches great importance to the development of a low-carbon economy. Premier Wen Jiabao pointed out in his 2010 government work report that it must vigorously develop low-carbon technologies, promote efficient energy-saving technologies, and actively develop new and renewable energy sources. Relevant departments in China are preparing the "Strategic Emerging Industries Development Plan" and have positioned new energy, energy conservation and environmental protection, electric vehicles, new materials, new medicine, biological breeding and information industry as emerging strategic industries.

The core of developing a low-carbon economy is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. On the one hand, it actively assumes responsibility for environmental protection and completes the requirements of the national energy conservation and consumption reduction targets. On the other hand, it adjusts the economic structure, improves energy efficiency, develops new industries, and builds ecological civilization. . Suggestions for this:

The first is to include energy conservation and emission reduction targets in the 12th Five-Year Plan. Zhejiang Province should determine its energy saving and emission reduction in Zhejiang Province during the 12th Five-Year Plan based on its national goals and its own reality, and put forward specific projects, tasks, implementation methods, and time requirements, and set up a special structure to supervise and guide energy conservation and emission reduction. Normalization, to avoid the occurrence of the second half of 2010 to complete the Eleventh Five-Year energy-saving emission reduction tasks to adopt the sport-style phenomenon of power cuts, solid, orderly and promote the development of low-carbon economy.

The second is to actively encourage the research, development, and application of low-carbon technologies to improve energy consumption efficiency. Relevant information shows that in 2009 China's energy consumption has exceeded the United States, ranking first in the world. When China's GDP accounted for 7 of the world's total production, it consumed 17% of the world's total energy consumption that year, which shows that China's energy consumption efficiency is low. Zhejiang's economy is dominated by traditional industries and is a major energy-consuming province in China. There is ample space for energy conservation and emission reduction. Encouraging the research, development, and application of low-carbon technologies is an inevitable choice for the development of a low-carbon economy.