T/CSTE 0061-2021 Climate investment finance project classification guideline

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Scope: This document stipulates the general principles for the classification of climate investment and financing projects, as well as the classification guidelines for climate change mitigation projects and adaptation projects. This document applies to the identification, definition, and classification of climate investment and financing projects by relevant institutions in the related stages of investment and financing activities; Main technical content: 4. General Principles 4.1 Climate investment and financing projects shall be classified in accordance with the requirements of policy guidance, relevant regulations and standards, combined with the actual situation of the project, and based on the latest scientific evidence, in accordance with the principles of comprehensiveness, objectivity, applicability, and openness. 4.2 Climate investment and financing projects include climate change mitigation projects, climate change adaptation projects, and projects with both mitigation and adaptation effects. 4.3 The support scope of climate investment and financing projects may include: a) In terms of climate change mitigation: - Projects that help adjust the industrial structure and actively develop strategic emerging industries; - Projects that help optimize the energy structure and vigorously develop non-fossil energy; - Projects related to carbon capture, utilization, and storage pilot demonstrations; - Projects that help control greenhouse gas emissions from non-energy activities such as industry, agriculture, and waste treatment; - Projects that help increase forests, grasslands, and other carbon sinks. b) In terms of climate change adaptation: - Projects that help improve the climate change adaptation capacity in key areas such as agriculture, water resources, forestry and ecosystems, oceans, meteorology, disaster prevention and mitigation; - Projects that help strengthen the basic capacity for adaptation, accelerate infrastructure c

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