全球气候变化是21世纪人类共同面临的重大挑战。面向碳中和的低碳、零碳乃至负碳技术将成为未来全球产业革命和科技竞争的关键。实现碳达峰、碳中和是关乎中华民族永续发展和亿万人民福祉安康的“国之大者”。一年前的今天，2020年9月22日，习近平总书记首次宣示我国碳达峰碳中和目标。这是党中央经过深思熟虑作出的重大战略决策，是我国实现可持续发展、高质量发展的内在要求，也是推动构建人类命运共同体的必然选择。在如此重要的国家战略部署面前，大学不可缺席，清华人必须有所担当。
2021年9月22日，清华大学正式成立碳中和研究院（简称碳中和院，英文名称Institute for Carbon Neutrality, 英文缩写ICON,THU）。碳中和院的成立，是清华大学在110周年校庆后的第一项重要战略举措，是学校主动抓住工科战略转型重大机遇的积极作为，是服务国家重大战略需求、深入贯彻国家关于碳达峰碳中和的重大战略部署，发挥一流大学在应对全球气候变化、实现碳中和基础理论与关键技术突破等方面创新引领作用的责任担当，也是为人类命运共同体、为全球可持续发展贡献智慧与力量的重要举措。清华大学碳中和研究院为校级实体科研机构，院长由国家生态环境保护专家委员会副主任、中国工程院院士、清华大学环境学院教授贺克斌担任。
第十一届全国人大常委会副委员长华建敏，中国气候变化事务特使解振华，中国科协党组书记、书记处第一书记张玉卓，教育部党组成员、副部长钟登华，科技部党组成员陆明，国家气候变化专家委员会名誉主任、科技部原副部长刘燕华，华能集团党组书记、董事长舒印彪，中国核工业集团党组书记、董事长余剑锋，清华大学校长邱勇、党委书记陈旭，积极响应和参与研究院成立的十余位中国科学院及中国工程院院士、文科资深教授等相关领域专家学者出席会议，清华大学副校长曾嵘主持会议。
华建敏、钟登华、陆明、舒印彪、余剑锋分别对碳中和研究院的成立表示祝贺，并提出切实期望与合作展望。前美国总统奥巴马科技顾问、哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院讲席教授约翰·霍尔德伦（John Holdren），联合国原副秘书长、“一带一路”绿色发展国际联盟咨询委员会主任委员埃里克•索尔海姆（Erik Solheim），哥伦比亚大学地球研究所主任亚历克斯•哈利迪（Alex Halliday），联合国副秘书长、联合国开发计划署副署长乌莎·拉奥-莫纳里（Usha Rao-Monari），特斯拉公司CEO埃隆•马斯克（Elon Musk）等特邀嘉宾通过视频、贺信等表示祝贺。华建敏、解振华、张玉卓、钟登华、邱勇、陈旭、曾嵘、贺克斌共同为研究院揭牌。
习近平总书记在110周年校庆前夕考察清华时对学校的发展成就高度肯定并指出，清华大学秉持自强不息、厚德载物的校训，深化改革、加快创新，各项事业欣欣向荣，科研创新成果与国家发展需要丝丝相扣，展现了清华人的勇毅和担当。总书记强调：“要用好学科交叉融合的‘催化剂’，加强基础学科培养能力，打破学科专业壁垒，对现有学科专业体系进行调整升级，瞄准科技前沿和关键领域”。服务国家是大学最崇高的使命，清华大学始终坚持与祖国共进、与时代同行。

从1956年为服务国家经济建设对科学技术的需求，集中优势力量创办包括半导体技术在内的一批新专业，到今年4月22日成立集成电路学院，集中精锐力量投向关键核心技术主战场，为实现集成电路学科国际领跑、支撑我国集成电路事业自主创新发展作出关键贡献；从1958年抓住国家发展原子能事业的重大机遇，主动担当筹建原子能科学实验基地（“200号”），到今年9月12日，由清华大学与华能集团、中核集团共同研发建设的石岛湾高温气冷堆核电站示范工程1号反应堆首次达到临界状态；从2018年主动请缨成立航空发动机研究院，推动我国航空发动机事业的创新发展，到2020年4月2日，成立万科公共卫生与健康学院，建设国际一流水平的新型公共卫生与健康学科，培养未来引领国际公共健康事业发展的高层次人才……在国家发展历史上的每一个关键时刻，永远都有清华人自强不息的奋斗身影。

      在关注气候变化、实现可持续发展方面，清华大学一直在积极行动。从1998年提出建设“绿色大学”，到2017年12月，学校成立清华大学气候变化与可持续发展研究院，再到2019年5月，清华大学倡议成立“世界大学气候变化联盟”。2020年1月，习近平总书记给世界大学气候变化联盟的学生代表回信，对大家就关乎人类未来的问题给予的共同关切表示赞赏，期待同学们为呵护好全人类共同的地球家园积极作为。在新的征程上，清华人依然会坚守自强的精神底色，依然会以创新为矢志不渝的追求，为国家发展、社会进步不断作出新的贡献。
清华大学在建设碳中和研究院方面已有深厚积累，在低碳发电与动力、新型电力系统、零碳交通、零碳建筑、工业深度减排技术、减污降碳协同增效、CCUS与碳汇、气候变化与碳中和战略等若干个碳中和核心研究领域，已取得一批具有先进水平的创新成果。同时，清华大学与重点企业围绕双碳主题展开联合研究，深化校企合作。在绿色低碳发展战略领域，与中国长江三峡集团有限公司、中国华能集团有限公司、太古地产有限公司、丰田汽车公司等国内外重点企业联合共建校级研究机构，并积极推动气候变化国际交流合作，主动搭建高层次交流平台，已建成包括清华大学气候变化与可持续发展研究院在内的多个校级研究机构，用“硬核技术”支撑国家双碳战略实施。就在4天前，9月18日，清华大学与中核集团、华能集团、宝武钢铁集团、中信集团签约共建高温气冷堆碳中和制氢产业技术联盟，以我国先进的高温气冷堆技术为基础，通过超高温气冷堆制氢的研发，开发氢冶炼、氢化工等应用技术，将高温气冷堆技术与钢铁冶炼、化工等具体应用场景相结合，打造工业规模示范项目，并在国内外开展产业化推广，努力实现相关行业的二氧化碳极低排放，助力碳中和梦想变为现实。
清华大学碳中和研究院将创新理念和机制，努力打造服务国家发展新格局的新型战略平台。研究院将围绕碳中和打造技术创新中心、高端智库战略中心、高层次人才培育基地、合作交流传播平台。下一步，清华大学将充分发挥多学科、多平台的优势和深厚的人才积累，在低碳发电与动力、新型电力系统、零碳交通、零碳建筑、工业深度减排、减污降碳协同增效、CCUS与碳汇、气候变化与碳中和战略等方向重点发力，力争在碳中和主战场与关键技术突破方面发挥引领作用。其中：
零碳交通主战场上清华车辆与运载学院针对新能源汽车电池安全性问题，攻克了车用动力电池性能优化控制与系统集成设计的技术难题，研发了系列化的燃料电池商用车动力系统，在国际上率先开展了燃料电池汽车在寒区大规模商业化示范。该团队继续向研发世界领先水平的高安全、长寿命车用新能源动力系统进军。清华建筑学院开发了“光储直柔”新型建筑零碳电力系统、中深层地热能热泵零碳供热系统等关键技术，形成了国际领先的零碳建筑设计方法和管理技术体系。是降碳减排的排头兵。清华大学能动系研发了具有完全自主知识产权的循环流化床燃烧技术和设计理论体系及先进煤气化技术。核研院设计了世界首座球床模块式高温气冷堆示范电站并完成商业示范。在氢能发电方面攻克了固体氧化物电池从机理到集成匹配的电池全产业链关键技术。是实现双碳目标的核心枢纽。电机系构建了高比例新能源电力系统安全控制理论、电力装备与系统高效仿真、碳排放流模拟平台，研发了多类型储能技术与关键装备，为实现以新能源为主体的新型电力系统提供了关键装备和“智慧大脑”。材料学院在高效制氢光/电催化剂、光伏能量转化材料研制技术上提供了系列重要支撑。化工系研发了下行床原油直接裂解制化学品等成套技术，开拓了一条从“化石燃料”到“化石材料”产业链变革的关键技术路径。减污降碳协同增效是贯彻落实习近平生态文明思想、深入打好污染防治攻坚战的关键途径和重要抓手。环境学院研发了循环经济共性技术、污染物高精度追踪数据库与实时反演技术，形成了减污降碳和资源能源高效利用成套技术方案与装备，地学系构建了生态系统碳汇和全球碳排放数据库，为推动经济社会发展全面绿色转型提供理论和技术保障。
CCUS与碳汇是实现双碳目标的托底技术。近20年来，能动系、化工系、土水学院、地学系等多院系协同开展了CO2捕集、地质封存与增产油、气、热利用研究，建成了从原子、孔隙尺度到岩心、大规模尺度的模拟方法和实验平台。研究成果应用于国内外CCUS示范项目中。

气候变化与碳中和战略方面气候变化与可持续发展研究院、核研院围绕我国中长期低碳发展战略与转型路径开展系统研究，经管学院、公管学院、五道口金融学院组织了碳中和全球经济政策的高端研讨，为国家“双碳”目标的决策和实施提供了科学支撑。未来计划在碳中和高端国际论坛和国际科技传播两个方向发力，并由清华大学碳中和研究院倡议并建立碳中和技术国际联盟。
碳中和研究院将转变学科单一发展的惯性，发挥学校基础研究深厚和学科交叉融合的优势，实现多院系多学科联合创新，集中优势资源加快突破碳中和领域关键核心技术攻关，攻克一批碳中和“卡脖子”关键核心技术。积极参与创新联合体建设，形成跨行业、跨领域、跨区域碳中和关键技术合作集成平台，不断深化校地合作，对接地方低碳发展与企业转型需求，合作共建绿色低碳示范企业、示范城市（群），促进科技成果转化。推进与世界一流大学和学术机构的合作交流，组织开展国际合作战略研究，参与国际碳中和领域大科学计划和大科学工程，宣传、传播清华碳中和国际合作与技术发展前沿，提高在国际碳中和技术领域的影响力。

Global climate change is a major challenge facing mankind in the 21st century.Low-carbon, zero-carbon and even negative carbon technologies for carbon neutrality will be the key to global industrial revolution and scientific and technological competition in the future. Achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality is vital to the sustainable development of the Chinese nation and the well-being of hundreds of millions of Chinese people. One year ago today, On 22 September 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping announced for the first time China's goal of achieving peak carbon neutrality. This is a major strategic decision made by the CPC Central Committee after careful consideration. It is an inherent requirement for China to achieve sustainable and high-quality development, and an inevitable choice for building a community with a shared future for mankind.In the face of such an important national strategic deployment, the university cannot be absent, and tsinghua people must assume their responsibilities.

On September 22, 2021, Tsinghua University officially established the Institute for Carbon Neutrality (Institute for Carbon Neutrality, ICON,THU).The establishment of the Institute of Carbon Neutrality is the first important strategic initiative of Tsinghua University after the 110th anniversary of the university. It is the university's active action to seize the great opportunity of engineering strategic transformation, serve the major strategic needs of the country, and deeply implement the country's major strategic deployment of carbon neutrality. To give full play to the leading role of first-class universities in addressing global climate change and achieving carbon neutrality in basic theories and key technological breakthroughs is also an important measure to contribute wisdom and strength to a community with a shared future for mankind and global sustainable development.The Institute of Carbon Neutrality at Tsinghua University is a university-level scientific research institution. The director of the Institute is He Kebin, deputy director of the National Expert Committee for Ecological and Environmental Protection, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and professor of the School of Environmental Sciences at Tsinghua University.

Deputy chairman of the standing committee of the 11th National People's Congress, hua jianmin, China's special envoy for climate change, xie zhenhua, party secretary of China Association for Science and Technology, first secretary of the secretariat Zhang Yuzhuo, education deng-hua zhong, deputy secretary of CPC leading group members, members of the CPC leading group of science and technology, scored, honorary director of the national climate change expert committee, Ministry of Science and Technology vice minister liu yanhua, Huaneng group party secretary, chairman of the board of directors ShuYin puma, party secretary, jian-feng yu, chairman of China nuclear industry group, tsinghua university President coco, party secretary Chen xu, a positive response and participate in the research institute of a dozen of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, liberal arts, a senior professor, and other areas of the relevant experts and scholars present at the meeting, vice President of tsinghua university Zeng Rong chaired the meeting.

Hua Jianmin, Zhong Denghua, Lu Ming, Shu Yinbiao and Yu Jianfeng congratulated the establishment of the Carbon Neutrality Institute and put forward practical expectations and cooperation prospects. Former US President Barack Obama's Science and Technology Adviser, John Holdren, Professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Erik Solheim, former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chair of the Advisory Committee of the International Alliance for Green Development under the Belt and Road,Alex Halliday, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Usha Rao-Monari, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, Special guests, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, sent congratulatory messages via videos and letters.Hua Jianmin, Xie Zhenhua, Zhang Yuzhuo, Zhong Denghua, Qiu Yong, Chen Xu, Zeng Rong and He Kebin jointly inaugurated the institute.

Xi jinping, general secretary of the investigation on the eve of 110 anniversary at tsinghua highly to the development of the school achievement will surely and points out that the school motto of tsinghua university uphold self-reliance, and hold world with virtue, deepening reform, accelerate innovation, the business is thriving, scientific research innovation and national development needs hangs clasp, show the tsinghua yong yi and bear. "We should make good use of the 'catalyst' for interdisciplinary integration, strengthen the ability to cultivate basic disciplines, break the barriers of disciplines and specialties, adjust and upgrade the existing discipline and specialty systems, and target the frontiers and key areas of science and technology," the general Secretary stressed.Serving the country is the highest mission of a university. Tsinghua University has always been committed to advancing with the motherland and keeping pace with The Times.

In 1956 for the service demand for science and technology in national economic construction, concentrate superior forces founded, including semiconductor technology, a batch of new major, founded in the year to April 22, institute of integrated circuit, concentrated elite force into the main key core technology, for the realization of the integrated circuit course international leading, support our country enterprise independent innovation development key contribution of integrated circuits; Since 1958, when China seized the great opportunity of developing atomic energy, it took the initiative to prepare for the establishment of the Atomic Energy Scientific Experiment Base (No. 200). On September 12, this year, reactor No. 1 of the Shidaowan High Temperature Gas-cooled reactor Nuclear Power Plant demonstration Project jointly developed by Tsinghua University, Huaneng Group and China National Nuclear Corporation reached the critical state for the first time.Volunteered to set up the aircraft engine research institute from 2018, promote the innovation and development of aircraft engine in China, to April 2, 2020, vanke school of public health and health, construction of the international first-class level of new disciplines, public health and health training future leading international public health development of high-level personnel... At every critical moment in the history of national development, there will always be tsinghua people striving for self-improvement.

Tsinghua University has been active in addressing climate change and achieving sustainable development.In 1998, tsinghua university proposed to build a "green University". In December 2017, Tsinghua University established the Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development, and in May 2019, Tsinghua University proposed the establishment of the "World University Alliance on Climate Change". In January 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping wrote back to the student representatives of the World University Alliance on Climate Change, expressing appreciation for their common concerns on issues concerning the future of mankind and looking forward to their active efforts to protect the common home of the earth for all mankind.On the new journey, the people of Tsinghua University will still adhere to the spirit of self-improvement, and will continue to pursue innovation, making new contributions to national development and social progress.

In construction of carbon neutral institute, tsinghua university has profound accumulation, in low carbon power generation and power, the new power system, zero carbon, zero carbon communications, industrial depth reduction technology, reducing the carbon reduction synergies, CCUS and carbon sinks, such as climate change and carbon neutral strategy several carbon neutral core research area, has made a number of advanced level of innovation. At the same time, Tsinghua University and key enterprises will carry out joint research on the theme of dual carbon, and deepen school-enterprise cooperation. In the field of green and low-carbon development strategy, China Three Gorges Group Co., LTD., China Huaneng Group Co., LTD., Swire Properties Co., LTD., Toyota Motor Corporation and other key domestic and foreign enterprises jointly build university-level research institutions, actively promote international exchanges and cooperation on climate change, and actively build high-level exchange platforms. A number of university-level research institutions, including the Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development at Tsinghua University, have been established to support the implementation of the national dual carbon strategy with "core technology".Just four days ago, on September 18, tsinghua university, and in the nuclear group, huaneng group, bao wu iron and steel group, citic group signed a contract to build the high temperature gas cooled reactor carbon neutral hydrogen production industry technology alliance, on the basis of the advanced technology for high temperature gas cooled reactor in China, through the ultra high temperature gas cooled composting hydrogen research and development, the development of application technology such as chemical industry, hydrogen, hydrogen smelting We will combine high-temperature gas-cooled reactor technology with steel smelting, chemical engineering and other specific application scenarios, build industrial-scale demonstration projects, and carry out industrialization promotion at home and abroad, striving to achieve extremely low carbon dioxide emissions in related industries, and help realize the dream of carbon neutrality.

The Carbon Neutrality Institute of Tsinghua University will innovate ideas and mechanisms, and strive to build a new strategic platform to serve the new landscape of national development. The Institute will focus on carbon neutrality to build a technological innovation center, a high-end think tank strategy center, a high-level talent training base, and a platform for cooperation, exchange and communication. In the next step, Tsinghua University will give full play to its multi-disciplinary and multi-platform advantages and profound talent accumulation to focus on low-carbon power generation and power, new power systems, zero-carbon transportation, zero-carbon buildings, deep emission reduction in industry, synergy of pollution reduction and carbon reduction, CCUS and carbon sinks, climate change and carbon neutrality strategy.Strive to play a leading role in carbon neutrality and key technological breakthroughs.Among them:

Zero carbon traffic on the main school of tsinghua vehicles and carrying on the new energy car battery security issues, to overcome the vehicle power battery performance optimization control of the technical problem and system integration design, developed a series of fuel cell power system of commercial vehicle, the first in the world to carry out the fuel cell car in cold and large-scale commercial demonstration. The team continues to research and develop the world's leading level of high safety, long life vehicle new energy power system.Tsinghua School of Architecture has developed key technologies such as zero-carbon power system for new buildings with "light storage, direct flexibility" and zero-carbon heating system with middle-deep geothermal heat pump, forming an internationally leading zero-carbon building design method and management technology system. Is the vanguard of carbon reduction and emission reduction.The department of Energy Dynamics of Tsinghua University has developed the CFB combustion technology and design theory system and advanced coal gasification technology with completely independent intellectual property rights. The nuclear Research Institute has designed the world's first bulb bed modular high temperature gas-cooled reactor demonstration power station and completed commercial demonstration. In the aspect of hydrogen power generation, the key technology of solid oxide battery industry chain from mechanism to integration and matching has been conquered.Is the core hub to achieve the dual carbon goal. The department of electrical Machinery has built a high proportion of new energy power system security control theory, high efficiency simulation of power equipment and system, carbon emission flow simulation platform, and developed multiple types of energy storage technology and key equipment, providing key equipment and "intelligent brain" for the realization of new energy based new power system. The School of Materials science and Technology provides a series of important support in the development of efficient photocatalyst/electrocatalyst for hydrogen production and photovoltaic energy conversion materials. The Department of Chemical Engineering has developed complete sets of technologies such as direct cracking of downstream crude oil to produce chemicals, opening up a key technological path to transform the industrial chain from "fossil fuels" to "fossil materials".Reducing pollution and reducing carbon is a key way to implement Xi Jinping thought on Ecological Civilization and fight the battle against pollution. Institute of environmental research and development of circular economy of generic technology, pollutants and high precision tracking database and real-time inversion technique, formed the reducing carbon reduction and energy efficient utilization of resources of complete sets of technology solutions and equipment, to build the ecosystem carbon sinks and department of global carbon emissions database, in order to promote economic and social development to provide comprehensive green transformation theory and technical support.

CCUS and carbon sink are the underpinning technologies to achieve dual carbon goals.In the past 20 years, the department of Energy Dynamics, the Department of Chemical Engineering, the School of Soil and Water engineering, the Department of Geography and other departments have jointly carried out research on CO2 capture, geological storage and stimulation of oil, gas and heat utilization, and built simulation methods and experimental platforms from atomic and pore scales to cores at large scale. The research results have been applied in CCUS demonstration projects at home and abroad.

Climate change and carbon neutral strategic aspects of climate change and sustainable development research institute, HeYanYuan around our country medium and long-term low-carbon path to carry out the transformation and development strategy of system research, college of management, the male tube institute, wudaokou financial institute organizes the high-end carbon neutral global economic policy research, as a national "double carbon" target decision-making and implementation provides scientific support. In the future, it plans to make efforts in the two directions of carbon neutral high-end international forums and international science and technology dissemination, and to establish an international alliance of carbon neutral technology proposed by the Carbon Neutral Institute of Tsinghua University.

The Carbon Neutral Institute will change the inertia of single discipline development, give full play to the advantages of profound basic research and interdisciplinary integration of the university, realize the joint innovation of multiple departments and disciplines, concentrate superior resources to speed up the breakthrough of key core technologies in the field of carbon neutrality, and overcome a number of key core technologies that are "stuck" in the field of carbon neutrality. We will actively participate in the establishment of an innovation consortium, form an integrated platform for cross-industry, cross-field and cross-regional cooperation on carbon-neutral key technologies, deepen school-local cooperation, align local low-carbon development and enterprise transformation needs, jointly build green and low-carbon demonstration enterprises and demonstration cities (groups), and promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements.To promote the cooperation and exchange with world-class universities and academic institutions, organize and carry out international cooperation strategy research, participate in international big science programs and big science projects in the field of carbon neutrality, publicize and disseminate the forefront of tsinghua's international cooperation and technology development in the field of carbon neutrality, and improve its influence in the field of international carbon neutrality technology.