Carbonstop has been providing consulting services to CDP supply chain enterprises for 10 years. In 2023, Carbonstop helped its clients achieve better CDP results, with climate and water questionnaires ranking among the top three in China. 100% of climate, water, and forest questionnaires received B or above in various industries, including chemicals, plastic products, packaging, clothing, and biomedicine. More than 8 clients received an A-, setting a new historical high. In 2024, CDP will introduce changes, featuring a comprehensive survey questionnaire that combines three environmental areas: climate, forests, and water. Companies will also need to respond to relevant questions and environmental topics based on their business activities and investor requirements. Additionally, the filing period will be adjusted. Faced with these new challenges, Carbonstop will continue to provide professional one-on-one services, guiding enterprises through the entire CDP reporting process.

On December 8th, at the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), a groundbreaking innovation in artificial intelligence captured the attention of global climate change advocates. Carbon AI, an artificial intelligence service focused on the carbon industry, was launched at China Pavilion.  As global attention to climate change and environmental protection rises, the role and demand for carbon consultants are increasingly evident. However, the challenges in the carbon consulting field have always persisted, such as the collection and organization of massive data, timely access to and interpretation of the latest policies, and the popularization and training of professional knowledge. To empower the low-carbon field with AI, enhance corporate carbon management efficiency and standards, and reduce the costs of green operations, Carbon AI emerges. Luhui Yan, founder & CEO of Carbonstop, officially launched Carbon AI at COP28 and showcased its powerful features and capabilities. He demonstrated the calculation of the carbon emissions of COP28 and other carbon-related questions on-site, highlighting its extensive carbon factor database and computational power. As an AI dedicated to the carbon field, it offers interpretations of over a thousand terms and policies, along with insights and analysis from tens of thousands of cases, helping people to comprehensively understand carbon knowledge, industry trends, and policy regulations. It also serves as a rapid carbon calculation tool, aiding in carbon emission accounting across various scenarios such as corporations, products, projects, and events, thus facilitating easy carbon calculation and understanding of carbon emissions. Additionally, Carbon AI acts as an assistant on Ccloud, capable of executing user commands, building models, and analyzing carbon data within the Ccloud. In the future, it plans to utilize large models and industry data for intelligent modeling, providing more personalized carbon data analysis services. Developed by dozens of senior experts in the carbon field, Carbon AI represents the best practices accumulated by Carbonstop over more than a decade, including over ten years of carbon emission factor data, corporate end Scope 1,2,3 data, thousands of product carbon footprint project accumulations, and publicly available SBTI and ESG data. As a global leader in carbon emission management, Carbonstop has always been actively driving enterprises towards carbon neutrality. The newly released Carbon AI further demonstrates our commitment and capability in aiding enterprises to achieve their carbon neutrality goals. In the future, as artificial intelligence technology continues to develop and improve, Carbon AI will play an increasingly important role in the global emission reduction process. Let us join together in using AI to assist in carbon reduction, building a sustainable future!

As the world grapples with rising global temperatures, Carbonstop is initiating a bold step in 2024. Our ultimate goal is to imprint a carbon footprint on every product, ensuring each item carries a scientifically calculated carbon label. We take this initiative by labeling Carbonstop's assets, content we produced, and marketing materials we created. Carbon Labels for Carbonstop's Assets and Carbon Reduction Actions: We are introducing carbon labels to our digital communications, including every email and WeChat post. These labels serve as constant reminders of the tangible impact of the digital world on the physical world. TAG Project: Standing for 'The Annual Green Project', this initiative is our commitment to developing new carbon reduction strategies each year. In its inaugural year, we are shifting to electronic invoicing, aiming to significantly cut down on carbon emissions. By the end of 2024, we will assess the cumulative impact of this change. From -One to Net-0: At Carbonstop, we are steadfast in our commitment to a net-zero carbon future. We firmly believe that 'carbon footprint' and 'carbon labels' will become vital components of our sustainable future. 

The 2022 Global Carbon Management Conference(GCMC) was successfully held in Beijing on the afternoon of September 23. The  conference theme is "Empowering - Unleashing the Carbon Power of Enterprises". Domestic and foreign experts and representatives in the field of carbon management have discussed the changes and development trends of the carbon management industry in recent years.   Since the second anniversary of the "dual carbon goals", China's carbon neutral process has shifted from the concept to change in various industries. As the organizer of the conference, Luhui, Yan, the founder and CEO of Carbonstop, published  "Top 10 Insights and Trends of Carbon Management Industry in Two Years".   Luhui,Yan said that an increasing number of companies would like to engage their stakeholders on carbon disclosure in a more visual way. According to the "China Carbon Management Market Size and Forecast", a joint study by Carbonstop and China Insights Consultancy, China's carbon management market size will reach 109.9 billion yuan by 2025, 450.4 billion yuan by 2030, and 43.286 billion yuan by 2060.   As for Carbonstop’s development direction of digital carbon emission management, Lei Zhang, the founder of  Hillhouse Capital said that a comprehensive infrastructure is essential to achieve carbon neutrality.  Carbonstop provides a strong database for a variety of industries, including Hillhouse Capital's portfolio companies, with the power of technological innovation.      “Carbon emission calculation and management are the digital infrastructure for carbon neutrality. Carbonstop enhances the operability of carbon emission calculation and management by accumulating a rich database of carbon emission factors, as well as helping the whole society to establish a carbon-neutral innovation ecology.”  Neil Shen, founder and managing partner of Sequoia Capital China said at the conference.   At the conference, Carbonstop launched the “C-cloud” as an upgrade. After the upgrade,  “C-cloud” offers a visualized and smart carbon management tool for businesses while making carbon accounting more efficient and accessible to corporations. Specifically， “C-cloud”  is designed with a series of functional modules: Enterprise carbon accounting, Product carbon footprint, Supply chain carbon management, Carbon intelligence, Carbon account, and Carbon neutralization service.     Furthermore, s Carbonstop Research Institute members appeared at the conference for the first time. Carbonstop Institute  aims to build a high-quality interactive exchange circle between government, enterprises, and scientific associations, to assist companies in low carbon transition, and the realization of carbon neutrality.     In addition, to make the public understand the impact of carbon reduction more intuitively, Carbonstop also conceived the future personal carbon trading model, not only through the app "Green Meeting" to achieve the attendees’ personal carbon neutrality goal, but also especially showed the "low-carbon product experience space", which integrates personal low-carbon consumption scenarios into the carbon trading market, allowing on-site guests to experience their first carbon trading.   As the pioneer and influencer of Green Meetings in China, Carbonstop is continuing its efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of the conference and minimize wastage of all resources, including paper, related to it. According to the calculations, the 2022 Global Carbon Management Conference emits 31.02 tons CO2e in total, 54.43kg per capita, which can reduce 20.17 tons CO2e compared to a traditional conference.   It is worth mentioning that the conference used VCS, CER, VER, CCER, international green certificates I-REC and domestic green certificates and carbon sinks to offset the CO2 emissions and realized carbon neutrality in the end.  

On 1st August 2022, Carbonstop, China’s first carbon emissions management software and consulting solutions provider, had completed a round B of financing worth 100 million yuan ($14.82 million), led by Sequoia China and followed by its original shareholders GL Ventures and Matrix Partners.This funding will be used for the research and development of carbon management software products and the expansion of consulting, marketing, and business teams.

Carbonstop: Pioneer of China's Carbon Management Industry

 

Carbonstop was founded in 2011, it has been developing with the philosophy of always pursuing " There is no management without reasonable quantification ", adhering to science and technology, data and products as the driving force, promoting enterprises and institutions in various industries to carry out carbon emission calculation, management, emission reduction, and eventually towards carbon neutrality.

 

Over the past 11 years, Carbonstop has cooperated with more than 1200 customers including Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, Meituan,JD.com, Starbucks, SKP, Dow, CNOOC, China Airport Construction Group, Dubai World Expo, Hillhouse, Centurium Capital, China Construction Bank, Mastercard, Porsche, SINO JET, etc.

 

In the past five years, Carbonstop has shown rapid growth, with an annual compound growth rate of more than 100%. In the first half of 2022, under the dual challenges of the harsh capital environment and COVID-19, Carbonstop had a nearly 300% year-over-year growth rate in revenue, highlighting its business toughness.

 

More than 10 years of brand building, 10 years of perfecting the world's largest carbon emission factor database, thousands of top customers' best practices, industry-leading carbon management SaaS products, and carbon neutrality methodology "CREOS" have jointly cast a solid barrier on Carbonstop.

 

A Wave Is Rising, carbon neutrality boosts carbon management market

 

Since September 22, 2020, the Chinese central government has been pursuing the twin goals of achieving a national carbon peak in 2030 and full neutrality by 2060.

 

With the continuous promotion of these goals, not only high-energy-consuming enterprises such as electricity and cement companies have begun to manage their own carbon emission data, but also internet enterprises, financial institutions, consumer brands and real estate groups. Such firms that were not required to manage emissions have successively put forward their own carbon neutrality goals to control their emission data internally.

 

Tsinghua University and China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC) predicted previously that in the next 30 years, China’s investment in carbon neutrality will reach about 140 trillion yuan ($20.748 trillion).

 

With the continuous penetration of carbon neutrality goal， apart from key GHG emitters starting to manage their carbon emissions, Internet companies, financial institutions, consumer brands, and real estate groups have also announced their own carbon neutrality goals and begun to manage their carbon emissions.

 

Judging from the fact that hundreds of thousands of enterprises will carry out carbon management and make commitments to carbon neutrality goals, the carbon management market potential is huge. 

 

Continuous innovation, creating an efficient and compliant digital carbon management platform

 

Over the past eleven years, Carbonstop has taken "let every product show its carbon footprint" as its mission, and its innovation in carbon management technology has never stopped.

 

Regarding products, Carbonstop initially launched carbon management software CAMP, which started the latest attempt of the digitalization of carbon management, then launched SaaS carbon management platform “Ccloud.”

 

As China's first one-stop Carbon Management Platform , Ccloud includes a series of functional modules, such as carbon accounting, carbon asset management, product carbon footprint, carbon intelligence, carbon account, and online carbon neutralization service. The mission of Ccloud is to make carbon in every place be measured, visualised and create values and impacts.

 

 

Ccloud, Supply Chain Carbon Management

 

Also, Carbonstop established the world's largest Carbon Emission Factor database to scientifically guide various industries to calculate carbon emissions .

 

Sound connectivity, building an open ecosystem in the carbon-neutral era.

 

Carbonstop has established system-level ecological cooperation with the China National Institute of Standardization, and internationally renowned LCA database EcoInvent in recent years.

Also, Carbonstop has accumulated a carbon emission factor database containing more than 150,000 pieces of data from more than 200 countries around the world, and it will gradually be opened globally to all users.

 

 

Carbonstop carbon emission factor database

 

Meanwhile, Carbonstop is building the London Innovation Center and the North American Innovation Center not only to support Chinese enterprises in the carbon footprint compliance of export and overseas, but also to enhance the competitiveness of international brands.

 

 

Next decade, continuing to do the right but difficult things

 

The mission of Carbonstop is to make every product show its carbon footprint. In the future, customers can select products with carbon labels in shopping malls, which encourages enterprises to produce more goods in low-carbon emmission and provide more low-carbon services.

 

 

 

Yan Luhui , Founder and CEO, Carbonstop

 

Lu Hui Yan, the founder of Carbonstop stressed, "We are committed to driving 1 to 2 billion people to reduce carbon emissions and reducing 1 to10 billion tons of carbon emissions in the future.

 

With the B series funding and support of top investment institutions, Carbonstop can devote to the long-term value, not be trapped by short-term interests, which reminds us to remain committed to doing the right things even when the industry is in the strong tailwind, to create long-term value for our clients and the society.