The impact of global climate change is bringing increasingly severe challenges to the survival and development of all mankind. Moving towards carbon neutrality has become a global consensus. Realizing carbon peak and carbon neutralization is a major strategic decision made by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core to coordinate the two overall situations of China and the world. It is a solemn commitment to building a community with a shared future for mankind, an important starting point for practicing the concept of ecological civilization, and an internal requirement for promoting China’s green and low-carbon development.
In the post epidemic era, “digitization” and “greening” have become the main melody of global economic recovery. Digital technology plays an important role in helping the global response to climate change. Digital technology can be deeply integrated with key carbon emission fields such as energy, power, industry, transportation and construction, effectively improve the use efficiency of energy and resources, and realize the double improvement of production efficiency and carbon efficiency. Digitization is becoming an important technical path for China to achieve carbon neutralization. On the other hand, the acceleration of global digital transformation and the growth of demand for computing power, as well as the wider application of 5g, drive the vigorous development of information infrastructure, and bring the growth of energy demand and carbon emission. The energy consumption of information and communication industry can not be ignored, so it is urgent to take the road of green and low-carbon development.
This white paper analyzes the mechanism, approaches and potential of digital technology enabling carbon emission reduction, constructs relevant models, summarizes the overall ideas and approaches of digital technology enabling, combs the focus and application scenarios of enabling carbon emission reduction in high energy consuming industries such as power, industry, transportation and construction, and promotes the digitization and efficiency of carbon management; At the same time, it studies the main characteristics and change trend of carbon emission of information and communication industry, as well as the energy consumption of information infrastructure; Finally, the report puts forward the promotion strategies and suggestions of digital technology to help carbon peak and carbon neutralization.
