Author(s)

Rongsheng Xie ¹, Min Zhong ²

Affiliation(s)

¹ Yunnan New Century Environmental Protection Research Institute, Kunming, China
² Yunnan Environmental Science Society, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Corresponding Author

Min Zhong

ABSTRACT

In the current increasingly complex international situation, global climate governance faces more challenges. As the country with the world's largest total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, China has pledged to strive to achieve carbon peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. However, carbon neutrality is a complex system engineering, and the development of circular economy has been proven to be one of the important paths to address climate change and achieve carbon neutrality. Based on the actual situation in Yunnan, this paper explains the key role of circular economy development in achieving the carbon neutrality goal, and explores how Yunnan can help achieve the carbon neutrality goal through circular economy.

KEYWORDS

Yunnan; carbon neutrality goal; circular economy; current situation

CITE THIS PAPER

Rongsheng Xie, Min Zhong, Analysis on Current Situation of Circular Economy Development in Yunnan under the Carbon Neutrality Goal. Environment, Resource and Ecology Journal (2022) Vol. 6: 69-73. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/erej.2022.060410.

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