my country will launch a carbon fee this year. Large emitters will pay the first carbon fee in 2025 based on their emissions in 2024. But how to charge carbon fees? How much to charge? The Ministry of Environment released the carbon fee calculation formula for the first time on the 3rd, as well as preliminary plans for charging objects, carbon rights to offset carbon fees, and preferential rates. Among them, the algorithm of "deducting 25,000 metric tons of emissions and then calculating the carbon fee" is full. Amid controversy, environmental groups criticized the move as giving businesses free carbon emission quotas. At present, the Ministry of Environment has only released the structure of the bill, and the notice of the draft is yet to be announced. Director of the Climate Agency Cai Lingyi said that relevant measures and carbon fee rates will be finalized in the first quarter of this year. 1. From whom is the carbon fee collected? How is the carbon fee calculated? According to a briefing by the Climate Agency, carbon fee charging objects must meet two requirements. One is to be identified as "the source of greenhouse gas emissions that enterprises should inventory, register and verify greenhouse gas emissions" (mostly electricity and large-scale manufacturing), and the other is to be "directly The total emissions and indirect electricity emissions amount to 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent." The carbon fee calculation method is tentatively determined as deducting 25,000 metric tons from emissions and then multiplying by the carbon fee rate. That is, no fee is required for emissions of 24,900 tons, and only 0.1,000 tons of carbon fee is required for emissions of 25,100 tons. The Climate Agency stated that this setting is to avoid setting a threshold of only 25,000 tons, which would create an unfair situation where "25,100 tons must be fully paid, and 24,900 tons must not be paid at all." Shi Wenzhen, deputy minister of the Ministry of Environment, said that the objects that should be investigated account for about 75% of my country's emissions, but the power industry also needs to deduct consumer electricity emissions. After deduction, it covers my country's 55 to 60% emissions. to