Major Green Technology Innovation and Implementation Mechanism

Abstract

Community renewal and carbon emissions. Community and block renewals will become the main method for Chinese urban renewal. Communities are the main places for city life and living. From international experience, improvements in the living quality of residents will generally lead to an increase in carbon emissions per capita. The core of community renewal and renovation, however, is to improve residents' living quality. Therefore, Chinese community/life carbon emissions may rise greatly in the future unless active interventions implementing green technologies and green lifestyles are adopted. If not, community renewal is likely to become a huge drag on achieving China's "Double Carbon" goal.The Chinese government advocates community green renovation. Since 2020, China has defined the renovation of urban old communities as significant livelihood projects and development projects [1], and put forward that by the end of the 14th Five-Year Plan, China will strive to complete the renovation of about 220,000 old, urban communities involving hundreds of millions of people, stimulating investment of up to one trillion RMB (≈ 154 billion USD). In July 2020, China printed and issued its Action Plan for Establishment of Green Communities, which advocates the idea of green development throughout the entire process of community design, construction, management, and service, and promoting environmental construction and renovation of communities by simple, moderate, green, low-carbon ways. With the gradual implementation of the Chinese urban carbon neutrality strategy, community green low-carbon renovation will gain more support from government policies and finance.Community green renovation is a key fulcrum of urban carbon neutrality solutions. Communities present themselves as the most practical and direct application