{"id":68693,"date":"2026-03-13T10:52:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T02:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/?p=68693"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T02:55:15","slug":"greenpeace-east-asias-comment-on-chinas-15th-five-year-plan-and-two-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/press\/68693\/greenpeace-east-asias-comment-on-chinas-15th-five-year-plan-and-two-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace East Asia\u2019s comment on China\u2019s 15th Five-Year Plan and Two Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Beijing<\/strong> \u2013 At the opening of two sessions in Beijing on Thursday, China submitted the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.people.cn\/n3\/2026\/0305\/c90000-20431949.html#:~:text=China%20will%20accelerate%20the%20green%20transition%20across%20the%20board%20and%20cut%20carbon%20dioxide%20emissions%20per%20unit%20of%20GDP%20by%20a%20total%20of%2017%20percent%20in%20the%202026%2D2030%20period%2C%20according%20to%20the%20government%20work%20report.\">2026 Government Work Report<\/a> and a draft outline of the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/2026-03-05\/China-to-promote-green-and-low-carbon-transition-during-2026-2030-1LgffQJtSDe\/p.html#:~:text=He%20also%20noted%20that%2C%20in%20accordance%20with%20China%27s%20Nationally%20Determined%20Contributions%2C%20the%20draft%20outline%20envisages%20a%20total%20reduction%20of%2017%25%20in%20carbon%20dioxide%20emissions%20per%20unit%20of%20GDP%20to%20promote%20the%20green%20and%20low%2Dcarbon%20transition%20across%20key%20sectors.\">15th Five-Year Plan<\/a> (2026 &#8211; 2030) to its top legislature for review. Greenpeace reviewed the climate and energy sections of the documents.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Yao Zhe, Beijing-based Global Policy Advisor at Greenpeace East Asia (she\/her), said:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThe 15th Five-Year Plan sets a carbon intensity reduction target of 17%. At the same time, it ends a long tradition of setting a binding target for reducing energy intensity, which saw significant challenges to achieve in the past five years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThis shift aligns with the government&#8217;s broader plan to transition from &#8216;energy dual control&#8217; to &#8216;carbon dual control&#8217;. This means that domestic climate efforts will be planned and evaluated based on their implications for carbon emissions, rather than energy consumption.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cIn practice, however, energy and carbon intensity remain interlinked. Energy consumption remains high and growing while China continues to be a manufacturing powerhouse. Achieving the 17% target largely hinges on the extent to which renewables replace new and existing fossil fuel needs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cBesides the intensity target, the other half of the &#8216;dual control&#8217; &#8211; arguably the more important half &#8211; namely controlling absolute carbon emissions, is still in development. The 15th five-year cycle is a critical time window to ensure the necessary measures are put in place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>For media enquiries please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Qilin Liu, Greenpeace East Asia, Beijing, (qilin.liu@greenpeace.org)<\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace International Press Desk, pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org, +31 20 718 2470 (24 hours)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing \u2013 At the opening of two sessions in Beijing on Thursday, China submitted the 2026 Government Work Report and a draft outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026 &#8211;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":68457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6,18,100],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-68693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-energy","tag-climate-impacts","tag-coal","tag-renewable-energy","p4-page-type-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68700,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68693\/revisions\/68700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68693"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=68693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}