Text · Reporter of this magazine, Yuan Shimeng, "State-owned Assets Report" magazine, Issue 6, 2024
In the context of the accelerating process of global green and low-carbon development, green and low-carbon supply chain management has become an important topic for central enterprises, especially energy central enterprises. In September 2021, in order to better promote the green and low-carbon development of the Group and serve the "dual carbon" needs of government enterprises, China Datang established China Datang Group Green and Low-Carbon Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Datang Green Carbon Company"). In 2023, Datang Green Carbon was selected into the list of world-class professional leading demonstration enterprises issued by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, and it is also the only enterprise in the list with green and low-carbon development as its main business. Since its establishment, Datang Green Carbon has played a key role in helping China Datang achieve its goal of "carbon peak and carbon neutrality" by leveraging its professional and technical advantages, researching advanced experience in green and low-carbon supply chain management at home and abroad, assisting China Datang in building a green and low-carbon supply chain management system, promoting green procurement, and empowering suppliers to achieve their green development.
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It's timely
Under the trend of accelerating green and low-carbon development, enterprises are facing new challenges. From the perspective of the international market, the focus of European United States countries on carbon emissions has shifted from a single enterprise to the whole life cycle of products, many countries and regions have begun to put forward product ecological design and carbon labeling requirements from the perspective of the whole industry chain, and the mainland's export "new three" products represented by photovoltaic products, lithium batteries and new energy vehicles are facing green trade challenges in overseas markets. Chinese enterprises urgently need to improve their green and low-carbon management capabilities and pay more attention to their own green and low-carbon performance in order to better cope with international green trade barriers. From the perspective of domestic policy requirements, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council issued the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the High-quality Development of Central Enterprises and Doing a Good Job in Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality" and the "Guiding Opinions on Strengthening Supply Chain Management of Central Enterprises in Building World-class Enterprises", both of which propose that central enterprises should build a green and low-carbon supply chain system and play an exemplary role in the green and low-carbon transformation of the supply chain. On June 22, 2021, China Datang issued the Action Plan for Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality of China Datang Group Co., Ltd., and formulated the Action Plan for Carbon Peak of China Datang Group Co., Ltd. in 2022, which mentions ten key tasks and ten major projects, and lays out a roadmap for China Datang's future green and low-carbon transformation. The plan and roadmap have been set, and China Datang's green and low-carbon development still needs a specific starting point and platform. To this end, China Datang upgraded Datang Carbon Assets Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Water Conservancy and Electric Power Materials Group Co., Ltd., and established China Datang Green and Low-Carbon Development Co., Ltd., a second-level unit of the group, in September 2021, and took "strengthening carbon management, carrying out carbon accounting, promoting carbon emission reduction, and improving carbon performance" as the core of the group's green and low-carbon supply chain management, driving the coordinated carbon reduction of the industrial chain of the power equipment industry. "The deepening reform of low-carbon business management can give full play to the supporting role of Datang Green Carbon in the group's green and low-carbon development strategy." Liu Chaohong, deputy director of the supply chain management department of China Datang, said.
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Innovative practices
As early as 2005, China Datang began to lay out its carbon asset business and actively participated in the construction of the national carbon market and carbon trading pilots. As the only professional carbon asset management company in the Group, Datang Green Carbon gives full play to its experience advantages to help China Datang achieve green and low-carbon transformation. Over the years, Datang Green Carbon Company and its predecessor, Datang Carbon Asset Company, have effectively served the development, management and sales of green assets such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project of China Datang New Energy Enterprises, the National Greenhouse Gas Voluntary Emission Reduction Trading Market (CCER) project and the international green power certificate, and participated in the compilation of the first batch of CCER methodologies in China, won the right to speak for industry standards for China Datang, and has completed the high-standard completion of 23 provinces (autonomous regions, autonomous regions) of China Datang for many years. city) more than 100 key emitting enterprises annual carbon accounting performance. At present, the new energy industry has entered a stage of rapid development, and green, low-carbon and sustainable development have gradually become the common requirements of foreign buyers. New energy power equipment enterprises practice green and low-carbon social responsibility through full life cycle carbon footprint management, building a green and low-carbon supply chain, producing environment-friendly products, and extending producer responsibility. Based on the new stage of development, Datang Green Carbon Company takes the terminal procurement of new energy power equipment as the starting point, takes the lead in the industry to carry out green and low-carbon supply chain management, carries out corporate carbon accounting, finds out the carbon footprint of products, empowers suppliers to reduce carbon, assists suppliers in improving green and low-carbon performance, and leads the green and low-carbon transformation and upgrading of the industry.
In terms of promoting green procurement, Datang Green Carbon assisted China Datang in issuing the "Guiding Opinions on Green and Low-Carbon Operation" and completed the top-level design to promote the construction of a green supply chain system. In 2022, the Group took the lead in putting forward green and low-carbon requirements for suppliers in the qualification access conditions for photovoltaic modules and wind power turbines. In 2023, the above-mentioned guidance will be further used as a general condition for qualification access to achieve full coverage of suppliers. In addition, Datang Green Carbon also assisted the group company and China Water Materials Company to hold the first supplier liaison meeting, officially released the "China Datang Green and Low-Carbon Supply Chain Initiative", and signed a green supply chain cooperation agreement with the first batch of suppliers. "China Datang not only puts forward requirements for itself to be the vanguard of green and low-carbon transformation, but also promotes the upstream and downstream enterprises of the group to accelerate the transformation to green and low-carbon direction and realize the synergy of ideas." Li Sheng, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Datang Green and Low-Carbon Development Co., Ltd., said. Liu Chaohong said that in 2024, China Datang will further strengthen the green and low-carbon performance requirements of suppliers, take carbon emissions, carbon footprint accounting and reporting as the entry point, promote the inclusion of green and low-carbon assessment of the supply chain into the supplier management system of China Datang, and establish a "green and low-carbon" incentive mechanism for the supply chain by adding "green and low-carbon" assessment indicators in supplier access, selection, evaluation and other links, give full play to the demonstration and leading role of central enterprises, and guide suppliers to integrate the "green and low-carbon" concept throughout the whole process of product life cycle. Promote the green and low-carbon development of the industry. For the green and low-carbon transformation of suppliers, China Datang not only puts forward requirements, but also provides support and empowerment. At present, Datang Green Carbon has cooperated with a number of leading enterprises in the new energy industry to build a green and low-carbon supply chain management system, calculate the carbon emissions and product carbon footprints of the organization, and evaluate the green and low-carbon performance level. "While meeting the green and low-carbon procurement requirements of the group company, we actively guide supplier enterprises to improve the green and low-carbon management performance of supply chain enterprises, promote coordinated emission reduction in the supply chain, and reduce the carbon emission level of the whole industry chain around green and low-carbon development planning, greenhouse gas emission accounting, production and operation emission reduction, and upstream and downstream collaborative carbon reduction." Li Sheng said. Datang Green Carbon's empowerment brings tangible value to suppliers. For example, if a supplier's products are exported overseas, the carbon footprint of the exported products needs to be calculated according to the local carbon footprint accounting methods and databases overseas before participating in overseas bidding. However, due to the failure to update the overseas database in a timely manner, it is no longer in line with the current industrial situation in the mainland, resulting in the carbon footprint of the supplier's export products being much larger than the actual value. After cooperating with suppliers, Datang Green Carbon carried out full-chain carbon footprint accounting for the product, analyzed and identified key emission links, guided enterprises to carry out targeted carbon saving and emission reduction work, and helped suppliers improve the performance level of green and low-carbon management. Compare the differences in the calculations using different carbon footprint factors, and work with suppliers to discuss how to deal with the trade challenges caused by overseas carbon emission requirements.
In the process of exploration, Datang Green Carbon calculates the carbon footprint of overseas export products for suppliers, and the cooperation between Datang Green Carbon and suppliers has been extended to a deeper level. Li Sheng said that at present, the global requirements for green and low-carbon transformation are getting higher and higher, and some enterprises have clear requirements for carbon emission reduction indicators in the process of international development. China Datang has a large number of new energy power generation resources, and Datang Green Carbon can analyze and calculate the carbon emissions of suppliers, and then formulate a green asset consumption plan based on the actual situation, and cooperate in carbon assets, green certificates and green electricity. This move not only makes full use of the endowment advantages of China Datang, but also effectively meets the needs of partners. In the process of leading the green and low-carbon transformation of the supply chain, Datang Green Carbon actively promotes the construction of a standard system and database. Datang Green Carbon Co., Ltd., together with industry associations and leading manufacturing enterprises, has simultaneously launched the construction of a green and low-carbon supply chain and carbon footprint accounting and evaluation standard system for power equipment, which is currently being actively promoted. "Now many supply chain companies hope to join us to jointly study the challenges in the future in the process of achieving the "double carbon" goal and the construction of the carbon trading market, and solve the international rules, standards and system problems that restrict our development through this platform. Li Sheng said. At the same time, Datang Green Carbon Co., Ltd., together with supplier enterprises, has started the construction of carbon footprint accounting database for photovoltaic, wind turbine, transformer and other power equipment industries, and plans to continuously expand the scope of application in the future work, gradually improve it, promote the localization of the database, and provide support for the construction of the national carbon footprint database. Li Sheng said that with the database as a foundation, we can further improve the standard formulation and system construction, and form our own carbon footprint system rules, which will provide important support for promoting the construction of a fair and reasonable international trade mechanism. In terms of green finance and investment, Datang Green Carbon has also carried out some explorations, such as channeling capital flow to low-carbon technologies, green projects and carbon sink investment through its own funds and the introduction of external funds. At present, Datang Green Carbon Company holds 18.18% of the equity of Hubei Emission Trading Center and 21% of Tangshan Carbon Assets Company in the form of equity investment, and is the main sponsor of Hainan International Carbon Emission Trading Center, holding 35% of the equity. "We plan to build a carbon trading center that meets international requirements in the context of the construction of a free trade port in Hainan. If this path is successfully explored, it will play an important role in promoting the integration of the mainland carbon trading market with the world and building an international carbon trading market led by China. Therefore, both Datang and Hainan hope to do a good job of this demonstration site to provide support for the mainland's industrial control of the carbon trading market. Li Sheng said.
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Provide Datang wisdom
At present, a number of state-owned enterprises have established low-carbon service companies to support the green and low-carbon needs inside and outside the group. Relevant experts pointed out that with the continuous promotion of the mainland's carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals, such companies will play an important role in helping central enterprise groups improve the unified management and operation of carbon assets in the future, and at the same time rely on industry advantages to play a greater role in promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of the whole society. Facing the future, Datang Green Carbon has huge room for development in terms of prospects and business scale. Li Sheng said that in the next step, Datang Green Carbon will continue to help China Datang's green and low-carbon transformation process through professional services. Li Sheng said that the first thing is to do a good job in the carbon accounting performance of the group enterprises. "The international community is very concerned about the authenticity of China's carbon emission data, and as a state-owned enterprise, it is necessary to ensure the quality of the data. Therefore, Datang Green Carbon will continue to make efforts in this regard and form professional regulations to help China Datang fulfill its carbon emission allowances. "The second is to actively cooperate with the supply chain department of the group company to further deepen and refine the construction of green and low-carbon supply chain. For example, the concept of ecological design and green production is integrated into the construction of the entire industrial chain and supply chain; At the same time, we will further improve the data standard system and lead the green and low-carbon development of the supply chain. The third is to continue to give full play to professional advantages, continue to play the role of the main force of central enterprises in the construction of the national carbon market, and give full play to the "three roles" of state-owned central enterprises in terms of carbon pricing power and carbon discourse power. In terms of business model, Datang Green Carbon will also further explore and improve. For example, the "dual carbon" consulting and green marketing will be further combined to provide better and better solutions for enterprises to cope with the international "double carbon" requirements. Through the construction of the green asset platform, and docking with carbon resources, carbon projects and carbon customers in various places, we will build a more open, more shared, national and international green asset platform. "Green Carbon will fully implement China Datang's development vision of 'green and low-carbon, multi-energy complementarity, efficient collaboration, and digital intelligence', with the theme of promoting high-quality development and building a green asset operation system as the main line, helping to upgrade the green and low-carbon service industry, participating in international cooperation on climate change, and providing Datang wisdom for the mainland to achieve the strategic goal of 'carbon peak and carbon neutrality'." Li Sheng said.
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