This Action Points for China's Forestry Sector in Response to the Climate Change during the 13th Five Year Plan (2016-2020) Period is a sectoral policy document. The Action Plan Points is intended to implement the national climate change strategic plann and action objectives, and to co-ordinate the forestry sector's response to climate change. It is expected that the action points proposed in the document will not only improve the forestry response to climate change but also make the forestry more sustainable. The document calls to speed up the establishment of desert ecological benefits compensation and sand control incentives subsidy mechanism, and improve policies for forest insurance, forest property right and mortgage loans. The policy document seeks to give full play to the forestry sector in the national overall work to cope with climate change. To this end, the main objectives of the Action Points are set up as follows: 1. By 2020, the amount of forest land will reach 312.3 million hectares, the forest area will increase by 40 million hectares on the basis of 2005, the forest coverage rate will reach more than 23%, the forest stock volume will reach more than 16.5 billion cubic meters, the wetland area will be not less than 8 million mu, more than 50% desertification land which can be managed shall be treated, total carbon stocks of forest vegetation will reach 9.5 billion tons, carbon sequestration capacity of forest and wetland ecosystem will increase continuously. 2. By 2020, management system for forestry sector to response to climate change, relevant policy and regulatory system, technical standard system, measurement and monitoring system, basic capacity and team building will be significantly enhanced. The key actions include: to increase forestry carbon sequestration, reduce forestry emissions, improve forestry adaptability, strengthen scientific and technological support, enhance carbon sequestration monitoring, explore and promote forestry carbon sequestration transactions, and promote international exchanges and cooperation. In addition, safeguard measures such as increasing infrastructure investment are proposed. Financial support from all levels of government will be put in the following fields: afforestation, forest fire and forestry pest prevention and control, carbon sequestration monitoring and so on.
الصين · 2016-05-30