What is the economic background of low-carbon economy?

china low carbon economy promotion association

With the utilization of biomass energy, wind energy, solar energy, hydro energy, fossil energy and nuclear energy, human beings have gradually moved from primitive civilization to agricultural civilization and industrial civilization. With the continuous growth of global population and economic scale, the environmental problems caused by energy use and their causes have been continuously recognized by people. Not only the harm of smog, photochemical smog and acid rain, but also the global climate change caused by the increase of carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere has been confirmed as an indisputable fact. In this context, a series of new concepts and policies have emerged, such as carbon footprint, low-carbon economy, low-carbon technology, low-carbon development, low-carbon lifestyle, low-carbon society, low-carbon city and low-carbon world. The result of great changes in energy, economy and even values may be a new way to gradually move towards ecological civilization, that is, abandoning the traditional growth model of the 20th century, directly applying innovative technologies and mechanisms in the new century, and realizing social sustainable development through a low-carbon economic model and a low-carbon lifestyle.