DUBAI, UAE, Dec. 15,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "The era of global warming has
ended, and the era of global boiling has arrived." In July 2023, the UN Secretary-General Guterres
sounded a new cautionary note of global warming.
Against the backdrop of escalating climate crisis, the
28th Conference of the Parties (hereinafter referred to
as COP28) under the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was rounded off in
Dubai, UAE. NewLink
and its affiliate NaaS (NASDAQ: NAAS), the first U.S. listed EV
charging service company in China,
attended the conference for the third time representing
China's digital energy
enterprises. Zhai Yubo, General
Manager of NaaS Carbon Neutrality Business, made China's voice of seeking "zero-carbon" and
green future heard in the world, from dimensions of response to
global climate change, innovative new energy technology and
solution and green action.
01 Team up in quest for sustainable future with "green
nature"
In terms of green and low-carbon sustainability promotion, NaaS
remains an "activist" all along. With presence found in a host of
COP28 sessions, including business
dialog on "Sustainable Development Strategy for Enterprises under
Carbon Neutrality" and pavilions of "Synergy of Pollution and
Carbon Reduction" and "Digital Industry and AI from Perspective of
Low Carbon", it jointly held a top-level forum of "Opportunity and
Practical Experience on China's
Market in the Wave of New Energy" with China Association for NGO
Cooperation (CANGO) and 21st Century Business Herald at
China Pavilion, Blue Zone, COP28.
Sharing practical experience of green and low-carbon development of
transport energy, it aimed to play a greater role in achieving
carbon neutrality in transport energy.
In response to climate change, action speaks louder than words.
Joining COP28, NaaS pooled together
powers and wits of industry organizations and companies, and
delivered achievements of carbon inclusion-based public engagement
in carbon emissions reduction. As a highlight of the COP28, NaaS published 2023 Whitepaper on
China's Carbon Inclusion
Development (hereinafter referred to as the Whitepaper).
Collectively drafted by 10 organizations, including NaaS, China
Carbon Neutrality Forum, Chengdu "Tan Hui Tian Fu" Green Public
Welfare Platform, Wuhan "Wutanjianghu" Platform, SGS, Alibaba Cloud, etc., the Whitepaper
incorporates a list of well-defined carbon inclusion principles,
methods, platform mechanisms, and transaction patterns, penetrating
analysis on public low-carbon acts, and a collection of typical
practice cases of enterprise-community integration. It provides
China's practice and reflection of
promoting carbon inclusion application.
For strengthening international carbon inclusion cooperation,
NaaS jointly launched the "Initiative on the Sustainability of
Enterprise-Community Integration in the Middle East" with CANGO. Taking advantage of
their own practices and strengths as a Chinese firm and NGO
respectively, the parties took aim at diffusing carbon inclusion in
the Middle East and realizing
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Initiative garnered the
concern and support of Shereen
Zorba, Head of the Secretariat of the UN
"Science-Policy-Business Forum on the Environment" (UN-SPBF) and
Rashid Deloh, Senior Advisor to Dubai Chamber.
During the COP28, about 100
countries pledged to triple renewable energy capacity worldwide by
2030. In such context, Green Finance Forum of 60 (GF60) and Climate
Works Foundation (CWF) co-organized the pavilion of "Triple
Renewable Energy", where NewLink, on behalf of Chinese enterprises,
engaged in exhaustive discussion on the background, actions and
methods for fulfillment of the commitment.
During the "Digital Industry and AI from Perspective of Low
Carbon" co-organized by NaaS and Alibaba Group at China Pavilion,
Xu Qinghua, Head of National Center for Climate Change Strategy and
International Cooperation (NCSC), Erik
Solheim, Co-Chairman of Europe-Asia Center & President
of BRI International Green Development Coalition (BRIGC), and
Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Deputy Director-General of Group of Chief
Scientific Advisors to the European Commission, and delegates of
enterprises and research institutions such as Alibaba Cloud
Intelligence Group, Alibaba-NTU Singapore Joint Research Institute
(JRI), and Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Incubation (AI³)
Institute of Fudan University, deliberated on use of digitization
and AI in innovative practice of curtailing carbon emissions.
At the China Innovation Centre at Dubai Chambers, NaaS also showcased a
wide selection of innovative products and industry solutions,
including self-developed charging robot, NaaS AC Wallbox certified
by TÜV Rheinland, high-power supercharger, integrated
PV-storage-charging solution, smart energy storage solution, and
energy management system. Navigating a zero-carbon path in
transport energy sector, it serves 20% of new energy assets
worldwide.
02 Write a new chapter of "green development" in transport
energy sector through innovation
In recent years, frequent extreme weather, biodiversity loss and
worsening desertification have posed severe challenges to
ecological environment, thus bringing environmental governance to
the fore. In 2023, global temperature hit a 100,000-year high. The
UN Environment Programme (UNEP) projects a rise in global
temperature by 2.5℃~2.9℃, and the likelihood for limiting
temperature rise below 1.5℃ is merely 14%. According to the Auto
Environmental Guide 2023 - A Comparative Analysis of Global
Automakers' Decarbonization: Recent Actions and Future Plans,
carbon emissions from road transport represented 17.9% in the
world's total in 2022, hence becoming one of the greatest
contributors to GHG emissions.
With solid progress made in achieving "carbon peaking and carbon
neutrality", carbon neutrality has become the biggest common
denominator of international cooperation. Inside or outside the
COP28 venue, countries, enterprises,
authorities and NGOs engaged in communication, cooperation, sharing
and symbiosis revolving around carbon neutrality.
On the ground of the two-wheel drive solution of "reducing
carbon emissions from fossil energy in stock and replacing
conventional energy with new energy" unveiled in last years' United
Nations Climate Change Conference, NaaS made all its outcomes of
innovative practice of seeking carbon neutrality in transport
energy sector in recent one year on display during the COP28.
In order to solve problems of high energy consumption, high
emission and inconsistency between supply and demand in the energy
industry, NaaS, leveraging energy supply and demand statistics and
digital capabilities, set up a smart "energy brain". Through
integration of cutting-edge technologies of sensing, perception,
forecast, decision, foundation model, and trusted artificial
intelligence, the project makes well-conceived optimization of
operation, transaction and macro-regulation in the energy industry,
and empowers smart construction and investment, smart operation
& maintenance, smart deployment, smart operation, and
distributed energy transaction in the transport energy system with
life-cycle digital services. As a solution of synergy co-control of
pollution and emissions reduction in the energy industry, it
provides robust support for win-win cooperation in racking up
environmental, climatic and economic benefits.
As one of important use cases, NaaS, in collaboration with Anhui
Province Energy Co., Ltd. (Wenergy), established EPORT, a compound
of refueling, hydrogen supply, charging and battery swapping. It is
specially designed to meet daily energy supply demand of 2,000 ICE
vehicles, 80 hydrogen buses and 576 vehicles in need of charging
and 300 vehicles in need of battery swapping. Compared with
conventional gas stations, the project cuts roughly 16,647 tons of
carbon dioxide annually, equivalent to 6,658 tons of standard coal
and annual CO2 emissions of 7,230 ICE vehicles. Winning
the bid for Zhejiang Anji Green Low-carbon Integrated Energy Supply
Project, NaaS vows to set a world-leading model of "integrated
PV-storage-charging-swapping" for heavy-duty trucks. With
photovoltaic power generation, energy storage, charging and battery
swapping put into intelligent and integrated use, the project gives
an impetus to green and low-carbon transformation of the transport
energy sector. Upon completion, the project is expected to generate
4.328 million kWh of electricity annually, saving 1,358.9 tons of
standard coal and reducing carbon emissions by about 3,580.5 tons
per year.
03 Practice ESG philosophy and visualize "green future"
through cooperation
In 2023, NaaS has stepped up communication and cooperation with
international organizations, as an act of cementing its status as
"green connector" in transport energy sector. In May and November,
the company inked an MOU with Dubai Chambers and China Innovation
Centre at Dubai
Chambers respectively, and as one of their first strategic
partners, assisted in fueling UAE's renewable energy and green
industries. NaaS successively got initiated into Science Based
Targets initiative (SBTi) and United Nations Global Compact (UNGC).
As China's first new energy
charging service provider joining the SBTi, it made a pledge on
backing the Ten Principles of the UNGC and scooped the award
of "Partnership for Early Awareness of Sustainability Disclosure
Today" from International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), as
a token of international recognition of its sustainability
practice.
Taking green actions, NaaS, with its technology and service
innovation, provides a stream of remedies for facilitating
installation of green transport infrastructure, including the first
self-developed charging robot, "integrated
PV-storage-charging-battery swapping" model project,
expressway-based new energy service network, and rural charging
network. As of September 30, 2023,
NaaS connected 73,000 charging stations and 767,000 chargers. In Q3
2023, the charging volume of NaaS reached 1.383 billion kWh,
representing 21.8% of the public charging volume in China.
Besides, NaaS upholds environmental, social & governance
(ESG) in its development philosophy. With green sources, stations
and uses, the company enables green and low-carbon operation in all
sectors of charging service, while setting goals of achieving
carbon neutrality in operation through 100% use of renewable energy
by 2028 and of recycling 100% of waste by 2030.
By setting well-defined ESG goals, and joining international
organizations, NaaS achieve remarkable progress in slashing carbon
emissions. In H1 2023, NaaS chopped 1.463 million tons of carbon
emissions, a 109% YoY growth and in 2022, NewLink's cuts in carbon
emissions surged 108% from a year earlier to 2.159 million tons.
With continuous effort in promoting use of green energy in
transport and further exploring the path of carbon emissions
reduction, they serve to ensure stability and efficiency of global
transport energy network and fulfill the vision "Empower the World
with Green Energy".
The UNFCCC COP meets every year, unless the Parties
decide otherwise. The first COP meeting was held in Berlin, Germany in 1995. The Paris
Agreement adopted at the COP21 in
2015 marks a milestone in the course
of global climate governance. It's aimed at holding the increase in
the global average temperature to well below 2℃ in this century and
pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5℃ above
pre-industrial levels in this century.
Ensuring continuation and intensification of the theme "Unite
Act Deliver", COP28 tracked the
Paris Agreement implementation with a decision on the
world's first "global stocktake", thus hogging the limelight in the
world. With more than 70,000 attendees, including heads of states
or prime ministers, negotiators, activists, and entrepreneurs from
167 countries, COP28 is officially
the largest ever UN climate summit.
Media Contact: Sabrina
Wang, wangxuedong@newlink.com
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