"The progress, stagnation or decline of a civilization, or the increase, leveling or decrease of per capita energy consumption; Or the efficiency of energy development and utilization is improved, leveled or decreased; Or the impact of energy development and utilization on the environment and society is reduced, leveled or increased. " Highlighting the practical significance of energy conservation and emission reduction as an important means to promote scientific development and an important standard to test whether Scientific Outlook on Development has implemented it shows the importance and urgency of this work in the future.

"China's energy problem has reached the point where it will affect the whole body. Without reform, there is no way out and it is difficult to compromise. "

In the early 1990s, China was still self-sufficient in energy, because it had its own coal, its own oil fields, rich hydropower resources and bioenergy. At present, the general view is that the rise in oil prices will not affect the overall steady growth of China's economy. However, if there is no long-term concern, there will be future trouble. At present, China's energy consumption per unit GDP is 70% higher than the world average, its heating energy consumption per unit building area is 2-3 times higher than that of developed countries, its dependence on foreign countries is close to 50%, and its oil import is second only to that of the United States. According to the research report of the National Research Center, by 2020, the lower limit of China's oil demand will be 450 million tons, and the upper limit will be 66,543.8+tons, while the domestic output is expected to be only/kloc-0.8 billion to 200 million tons, which means that China's dependence on overseas resources will reach at least 55%, which is roughly equivalent to the current 58% dependence of the United States on foreign countries. Obviously, China's energy and some mineral resources are highly dependent on foreign countries, which seriously restricts the sustainable development of China's economy. However, we have not done enough in the education of basic national conditions. Not long ago, a Japanese scholar asked college students, graduate students and staff in China about "the ranking of China's total resources and per capita possession in the world", but no one could answer accurately. But even primary school students can give accurate answers when asked such a situation in Japan. This situation is thought-provoking, and it also highlights the urgency and importance of strengthening basic national conditions education and making energy-saving awareness deeply rooted in people's hearts.

In addition to the grim situation of "energy saving", the completion of this important task of "emission reduction" is not optimistic. In fact, according to the current economic growth inertia, China's demand for fossil energy will continue to grow, and it is difficult for enterprises or institutions to reduce emissions immediately. Under the background of economic globalization, China's existing development model has been unable to cope with the pressure of carbon dioxide emission reduction. Therefore, in order to establish a good national image and corporate brand, we must be brave enough to undertake the corresponding binding responsibility of emission reduction, which inevitably requires changing the mode of economic development, optimizing the industrial structure, strictly controlling the energy use and pollution emissions of enterprises, accelerating the popularization and application of advanced and applicable technologies, and eliminating backward production capacity.

At present, the situation of energy conservation and emission reduction is still very grim, mainly because the scientific cadre performance evaluation system has not been fully established and the scientific enterprise development concept has not been truly established. In some places, the assessment of cadres still regards GDP growth as a hard task, and energy conservation and emission reduction as a soft indicator; Some enterprises still only pay attention to the acquisition of economic benefits, but ignore the control of environmental costs and resource and energy losses. Based on this, the Central Economic Work Conference proposed to realize the development of "good and fast, giving priority to good words", which not only put forward higher requirements for energy conservation and emission reduction, but also provided greater impetus for us to break through the bottleneck of energy and environment. Without energy conservation and emission reduction, it is impossible to achieve scientific development.

As a developing country, China can't blindly follow the western industrialized countries to use fossil energy to develop its industry, let alone blindly accelerate the increase of private cars ... Otherwise, China will be hit by the energy crisis in advance! Only by implementing clean production, vigorously advocating civilized consumption and taking the road of sustainable development is our inevitable choice.

The public is both a consumer and a producer and manager of the environment. Achieving the goal of sustainable development means a profound change, a change in people's world outlook, values and morality, and a change in people's behavior. Whether the public is willing to accept and actively participate is a necessary condition for implementing these changes. If 65.438+300 million people in China use less disposable wooden chopsticks, a piece of white paper and a New Year card, what a huge number the whole country adds up to, which is equivalent to how many forests have been protected! If all the lighting lamps in the country are replaced by energy-saving lamps, the country can save about 60 billion kwh of electricity a year, and to produce so much electricity, it needs 30 billion kilograms of coal. To promote energy conservation and emission reduction, only the active promotion and guidance of the government, the implementation of the majority of enterprises is not enough, but also the support and participation of all sectors of society, especially all urban and rural residents!

Let each of our citizens take action, starting from me, starting from scratch, starting from now, starting from the side, making their own contribution to the realization of the national energy conservation and emission reduction goals, and creating a more economical, cleaner and more civilized and sustainable life.