April 22 is world earth day.
This is a festival specially set up for world environmental protection. It aims to raise people’s awareness of existing environmental problems, mobilize people to participate in the environmental protection movement and improve the overall environment of the earth through green and low-carbon life.
On this day, the reporter of the daily economic news learned from many sources that Alibaba, jd.com, SF and other enterprises have published the latest measures on carbon reduction.
Today, Alibaba announced to join LCPP (low carbon patent pledge). At the same time, Ali will open nine low-carbon invention patents for data centers to Chinese and foreign enterprises, with a view to promoting the global application of carbon reduction technology in the data center industry and promoting green technological innovation.
On the same day, JD group issued a call to the outside world to “be a ‘carbon free youth’ together” to convey the life attitude of “having an attitude, advocating low-carbon, sustainable and readily environmental protection”, protect and protect the earth.
SF group said that in response to the national “double carbon” policy call, it recently officially launched the industry’s first “zero carbon future” plan.
In fact, the ideas of energy conservation and carbon reduction and protecting the earth have gradually become a trend. Under the guidance of policies, the goal of “carbon peaking and carbon neutralization” is also advancing steadily. Energy conservation and emission reduction gradually affect the daily lives of enterprises and the public.
Alibaba, jd.com and SF launched the “World Earth Day” carbon reduction action
On this year’s world earth day, Alibaba, jd.com, Shunfeng and other companies have expressed a positive “carbon reduction” attitude.
The reporter of the daily economic news learned that the LCPP joined by Alibaba was founded on earth day on April 22, 2021. It was initiated by Microsoft, Facebook (now meta) and HP. It is the world’s leading organization sharing low-carbon patents in open data centers. In addition to Alibaba, there are ups, ant group and other companies in the third batch of expansion.
The nine low-carbon invention patents of data center shared by Alibaba mainly involve liquid cooling server system design, disk power consumption management, modular design of data center and resource scheduling of computing engine, of which five are related to liquid cooling technology.
It is reported that the server will generate a lot of heat during operation. The traditional machine room must strengthen ventilation and refrigeration to reduce the temperature and ensure normal operation. Alibaba creatively soaked the server in insulating coolant, and the heat generated can be directly absorbed by the coolant into the external circulation for cooling. The energy consumption for heat dissipation in the whole process is almost zero, effectively reducing the use of fans, air conditioners and chillers.
For the opening of nine low-carbon invention patents for data centers, Alibaba CTO Cheng Li said, “good technology should be inclusive. The low-carbon development of the whole society depends on openness and cooperation rather than fighting alone.”P align = “center” screenshot of LCPP page. At present, nine patents shared by Alibaba have been uploaded to the website and opened to the world.
SF also said on world earth day that SF’s “zero carbon future” plans to extend green value to the industrial chain by integrating various green environmental protection measures, building a digital intelligent carbon management platform and building a standard carbon management system.
The reporter learned that in order to further promote the “zero carbon future” plan, SF has built a standard carbon management system and launched the digital intelligence carbon management platform – Fenghe sustainable development platform. By integrating the group’s carbon emission and carbon emission reduction data, it covers packaging, transportation, transit, delivery and other links. At present, the platform has been certified by the third-party authority SGS.
SF also said that at the end of 2021, it launched a green carbon energy platform, advocating that consumers obtain “green energy” by choosing to use recycled packaging, and redeem points for gifts and coupons. In 2022, SF went online and added more carbon reduction scenarios. It will launch more low-carbon services and exchange rights and interests, and work with consumers to create a low-carbon life.
On the issue of carbon reduction, Ali has put forward its own timetable.
At the end of last year, Alibaba released the 2021 Alibaba carbon neutralization action report, which promised three goals: to achieve carbon neutralization in its own operations no later than 2030; Take the lead in realizing carbon neutralization of cloud computing and becoming a green cloud no later than 2030; In 15 years, it will drive the ecological carbon reduction of 1.5 billion tons with the power of the platform.
On April 22, Alibaba rookie also announced the photovoltaic power generation bill of its China Park in 2021. At present, there are six logistics parks in rookie China that have installed photovoltaic power generation equipment, covering 300000 square meters of Park roofs. In 2021, the annual power generation will be 25.73 million kwh, 9263 tons of coal will be saved, and 16437 tons of carbon emissions will be reduced, which is equivalent to 45 hectares of afforestation. The power generation far exceeds the power demand of the park. 35% of the green power generated is for self use, and 65% of the excess power is transmitted to the State Grid, which can meet the power consumption of 20000 residents.
JD also revealed its plans for energy conservation and carbon reduction. JD said that by the end of 2021, JD had built about 100 MW of photovoltaic power generation capacity in 12 “Asia No. 1” in China, and will build 1000 MW of photovoltaic power generation capacity in the next three years. These green energy sources are not only used in the park, but also charge electric vehicles with the pilot project of “automobile + charging pile + photovoltaic”.
In addition, when setting the long-term goal of digital intelligent social supply chain in the next decade, JD has proposed that JD will spare no effort to promote environmental friendliness and reduce carbon emissions by 50% in 2030 compared with 2019.
Circular packaging starts from the details
The reporter found that more and more enterprises began to start from the details and spontaneously become the guardian of green water and green mountains.
Jingdong said that more and more users support the “slimming” of Jingdong’s outer packaging. More than 95% of Jingdong’s express cartons have been reduced from the traditional five-layer corrugated cartons to three layers, which is higher than the average level of 90% in European and American developed countries, reducing the use of more than 200000 tons of pulp every year.
In addition, in 2021, SF completed the upgrade of “Fengjing plan” 2.0, started the reduction, standardization and scene innovation development of eight categories of materials such as plastic bags, adhesive tapes, stickers and seals, and reduced a total of 279000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions through green packaging.
“Recycling packaging” that can be reused is being adopted by more and more enterprises.
Jingdong revealed that the use of circulating incubators reduces consumption of disposable foam boxes 60 million, reducing disposable ice bags 60 thousand tons, and reducing dry ice 30 thousand tons. There is no need for tape packaging, and no disposable packaging waste will be generated while recycling.
SF also said that it has independently developed and launched the carbon neutralization product fengduobao recycling packaging box since 2018, and carried out a secondary upgrade in 2021. The upgraded recycling box adopts PP honeycomb sector, a more recyclable single material, and uses the self-locking bottom folding structure and the magic bonding mode of the whole box, eliminating the use of consumable materials such as adhesive tape paper and zipper.
The reporter learned that fengduobao has been put into operation since July 1, 2021. By the end of December 2021, 720000 fengduobao have been put into operation, realizing 2.8 million times of recycling.
In 2022, it is expected that the number of fengduobao recycled packaging boxes will exceed 2.2 million.
Zhongtong also said that by the end of 2021, the carbon emission intensity of Zhongtong express had decreased for four consecutive years. In 2021, more than 15 million green recycling transfer bags were put into use in the whole network, more than 1.5 billion disposable woven bags were reduced, more than 135000 tons of garbage were reduced, the utilization rate of electronic noodles was 100%, the utilization rate of slimming tape was nearly 100%, and the waste recycling device of express was more than 20000.
In addition to express packages, making an industrial wood packing box requires about 0.38m3 of wood. After use, few of these wood can be recycled, and most of them are burned or buried.
According to the statistics of China Packaging Federation, in 2021, the operating income of Enterprises above Designated Size in China’s packaging industry reached 1204181 billion yuan, including 43.173 billion yuan of main business income from the manufacturing of cork products and other wood products. According to the estimation of material cost, more than 17 million cubic meters of pine wood will be consumed.
This group of shocking data is also triggering more enterprise actions.
On April 21, the reporter of “daily economic news” learned from CRRC Nanjing Logistics Service Co., Ltd. that up to now, CRRC Nanjing Logistics has invested 45000 circular packaging, accumulatively replacing 810000 wooden boxes, which is equivalent to 3905 hectares of protected forest, about 5469 standard football fields and about 0.14 Saihanba artificial forest. The annual carbon reduction reaches 167700 tons and 172000 tons of oxygen are released.
Green transportation, energy conservation and carbon reduction are on the way
As more and more new energy sources are put into use, transportation is becoming greener and energy-saving.
SF said that it will improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions of each package through the combination of “green fleet” and new energy vehicles.
In terms of air transportation, SF has continuously reduced aircraft energy consumption by building a “green fleet” with low energy consumption and high efficiency, introducing 747 / 757 / 767 and other large cargo aircraft with higher fuel efficiency under full load and lower fuel consumption per ton load per hour, and taking a series of measures such as cutting corners, straightening and secondary release.
In terms of land transportation, SF purchased new energy vehicles, hydrogen fuel light trucks and LNG natural gas tractors in batches, and increased the input and use of new energy vehicles through various ways. By the end of 2021, the launch of new energy vehicles had covered 215 cities; In addition, SF is also exploring the promotion and application of natural gas vehicles.
In addition, JD logistics uses 20000 new energy vehicles nationwide, reducing carbon emissions by 400000 tons per year, equivalent to the carbon dioxide absorbed by 20 million trees per yearP align= “center” Jingdong logistics uses 20000 new energy vehicles nationwide: official account of Jingdong.
At the same time, Zhongtong increased the promotion of the use of new energy vehicles at both ends of the collection and distribution. By the end of 2021, there were about 7000 electric van.
Demand for energy conservation and carbon reduction of small and medium-sized enterprises
In addition to the action of giants, the demand for energy conservation and carbon reduction of small and medium-sized enterprises is entering an explosive period.
According to Alibaba cloud, nearly 2000 small and medium-sized enterprises have accessed their carbon emission optimization accounting platform “energy consumption treasure”, saving 430 million kwh of coal power through photovoltaic installation and algorithm optimization, which is equivalent to reducing 440000 tons of carbon emissions. Among them, small and medium-sized enterprises in Zhejiang, Guangdong and Jiangsu are at the forefront of carbon reduction.
It is reported that after accessing the “energy consumption treasure”, enterprises can have a clear view of the distribution of power consumption and measure carbon emissions online in real time. At the same time, based on Alibaba cloud’s data +ai capability, energy conservation treasure helps enterprises optimize HVAC energy consumption through self-learning energy-saving control algorithm, and the average energy-saving rate brought by the algorithm reaches 10%.
In addition, in the current context, how to reach an “industry consensus” has become one of the main problems at this stage.
Some enterprises have been promoting the formulation of relevant standards. It is reported that Alibaba and the open data center committee took the lead in drafting China’s first data center liquid cooling industry standard, which has been officially implemented since April 1, 2022, filling the gap in the current data center liquid cooling industry standard outside China.
On March 30, 17 green and low-carbon group standards drafted by China Standardization Research Institute Zihuan branch in conjunction with Alibaba and other companies were officially released and gradually implemented on Alibaba platform. Meanwhile, tmall consumer electronics industry marked the carbon reduction value corresponding to the use stage of energy-efficient products on the purchase page for the first time to help consumers make green decisions.
Various signs show that green and sustainable development has long become the general trend.
On April 22, the reporter learned from Alibaba that the “sustainable development factory” standard for small and medium-sized enterprises is expected to take the lead in the foreign trade industry, and Alibaba international station will launch relevant supporting services in the near future.
