Chinese furniture industry "to consider" green
Furniture industry is no longer just blindly pursuing the product "pretty look," began to take effect from low carbon content. April 9, Qu U.S. Furniture Group and the world's leading body on climate change Climate Organization (THECLIMATEGROUP) announced the establishment of bilateral strategic partnership. The Climate Group Greater China president, said to our reporter Wu Changhua, The Climate Group is working on research of Chinese furniture industry chain of carbon emissions for the next development of the furniture industry to provide data to support carbon emission standards. She hopes the two sides to further improve the relevant industry standards and requirements, leading to low-carbon development in China's furniture industry.
China Furniture Industry Association, Zhang Bingbing, said: "China's furniture industry, widespread waste of resources, high energy consumption, high pollution phenomenon, in order to promote better and faster development of the industry, furniture industry to study the economic use of timber and reducing the logistics transportation costs. "Qu Mei Group president Zhao Ruihai that not only improves the forward supply chain, comprehensive utilization of materials, furniture companies can also reduce carbon emissions during transport," a tree to Beijing from Suifenhe do cutting, with the chairs ready, sent to Beijing in Suifenhe consumed in the logistics costs are not the same. "He calculated that business accounts, the deep processing of timber producing at least 20% reduction in transport costs, which represented a reduction of 20 % of carbon emissions.
In addition to manufacturing sector, the furniture of the carbon "saved" and the design are inseparable, music designers in the United States received this year, a new design tasks – from the design point of view to reducing carbon emissions from the source. "Always good lover no useless; always good love no waste material." For the design, Zhao Ruihai suggestion is that value raw materials, pay attention to design, quality assurance, so that products are sustainable in the practical, rather than to meet short-term trend of waste. Simply put, a sofa had in ten years, when the designer to give more functionality to the sofa, a sofa bed can also be used as, or even more separate combinations can reduce the rate of product replacement. Small for a sofa, less consumption of resources, it means reductions in the work done.
In an interview, Ms. Wu suggested that the developed countries on products of "green" in more and more attention to the furniture industry to reduce emissions in the international market of China's business competitiveness.
This reporter learned that the European Commission approved the wooden furniture on the grant resolution of eco-labeling standards. The system focuses on environmental products, the use and application are not cheap, apply more stringent standards. Although a voluntary product labeling system, but to some extent ecolabelling increase the market share of Chinese furniture enterprises difficulty and cost of production. Last year, the EU accounted for China's furniture export volume of 1 / 3.
Ms. Wu told reporters, although still not address the current international furniture mandatory carbon tariffs, Dan carbon there may be a new tariff barriers to trade, Chinese enterprises should enhance response capabilities and level of carbon tariffs.
As early as last June in Bonn, Germany, the United Nations climate change conference, representatives of some developed countries proposed levying a "carbon tariff", that does not impose mandatory greenhouse gas emission reduction of the national implementation of the additional tariffs. France ready for those in the EU's strict environmental legislation is less than the countries impose carbon tariffs on imports. According to French President Nicolas Sarkozy's proposal, foreign imports to the tariff rates levied on carbon emissions will be charged 17 euros per tonne, then will gradually increase. June 22 last year, the U.S. House of Representatives passed "Limits and Transactions Act", "Clean Energy Security Act," the two bills are authorized to U.S. Government, including China, can not implement carbon emission reduction quotas in imports impose carbon tariffs .
Zhang Bingbing that the Chinese furniture industry since the reform and opening up 20 years of development, furniture production increased 130-fold increase of 29.27%; furniture exports increased 294-fold increase of 34.90%. Furniture industrial output value in 2009 about 7,000 billion yuan, 25.329 billion U.S. dollars annual export of about the year 25% of the world furniture trade. With the domestic consumer market, "green wave" of the rise of Chinese furniture enterprises in low-carbon sooner rather than later.
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