{"id":7123,"date":"2021-12-20T17:14:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T09:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/?p=7123"},"modified":"2021-12-31T15:01:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T07:01:22","slug":"alibaba-pledges-carbon-neutrality-in-its-operations-by-2030-greenpeace-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/press\/7123\/alibaba-pledges-carbon-neutrality-in-its-operations-by-2030-greenpeace-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba pledges carbon neutrality in its operations by 2030: Greenpeace response"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>BEIJING, 20 December 2021<\/strong> &#8211; Alibaba\u2019s Chief Executive Officer Daniel Zhang announced that the tech giant plans to become carbon neutral in its operations by 2030.<\/p>\n\n<p>Tang Damin, Greenpeace East Asia campaigner, said:<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cAlibaba\u2019s announcement is groundbreaking, and ambitious in its target and timescale. It is particularly exciting for China\u2019s biggest platform company to account for the climate impact of its users. While details are not yet clear, Alibaba has certainly set the standard for all platform companies to follow.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThere are a few emission sources that are missing from this first accounting, including purchased goods sold on Alibaba retail outlets and customers\u2019 use of those goods. These omissions can lead to an imprecise counting of Alibaba\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2021\/11\/can-chinas-singles-day-go-green\/\">scope three emissions<\/a>. Alibaba\u2019s ambition to tackle the climate crisis is commendable and should cover every inch of footprint to make the greatest potential impact.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Ye Ruiqi, Greenpeace East Asia project manager, said:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cFor China\u2019s tech giants, Alibaba\u2019s carbon commitment sets the tone for the industry moving forward. This is the standard investors will use to review its competitors, including Tencent, Baidu, Bytedance, and JD.com. Moving forward, it\u2019s important for all climate commitments to commit to 100% renewable energy and a comprehensive, full-scope supply chain carbon neutrality goal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Contacts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>August Rick, Greenpeace East Asia, Beijing:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:august.rick@greenpeace.org\">august.rick@greenpeace.org<\/a>, +86 17510404599<\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace International Press Desk:&nbsp;pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org, +31 (0) 20 718 2470 (available 24 hours)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alibaba\u2019s Chief Executive Officer Daniel Zhang announced that the tech giant plans to become carbon neutral in its operations by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":7124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"not set","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6,100],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-7123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-energy","tag-climate-impacts","tag-renewable-energy","p4-page-type-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7182,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123\/revisions\/7182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7123"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=7123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}