With the world’s economic growth, global countries have implemented national policies and actions on climate change mitigation and adaptation. On the one hand, the rapid increase in fossil fuel consumption and carbon emissions highlights the importance of climate policy. The frequent occurrence of extreme climate events around the world has posed severe challenges to the natural environment, social production, life order, and sustainable development. On the other hand, promoting green and low-carbon development is the key to achieving high-quality development. Green total factor productivity considering energy input and environmental pollution has become a new indicator to measure the quality of economic development. Therefore, under the general trend of global sustainable development, how to achieve the goal of promoting green total factor productivity through formulating climate policies, has caught the wide attention of policymakers and scholars.
Against this irreversible background, we propose several urgent problems that need to be solved. How should different countries formulate relevant climate policies based on their actual conditions, to adapt to the changes in economic, political, technological, and social conditions? How to effectively avoid the risks of production cost increase and supply structural imbalance brought by climate policies, and alleviate the negative impacts on green total factor productivity in the short term? In post-COVID-19 times and the ever-changing global landscape, how should different countries properly handle the threats, challenges, and opportunities of climate change integrated into the consideration of green total factor productivity?
