China News Service, Guangzhou, July 9th (Wang Jian and Luo Ruixian) The inauguration ceremony of China Southern Power Grid's carbon-neutral financial leasing service platform was held in Nansha, Guangzhou on the 8th. The country's first carbon-neutral financial leasing service platform was officially launched.
The platform is based on blockchain and other digital technologies, innovates financial leasing service models, and explores the establishment of a floating mechanism that links financial leasing fees to carbon emissions, forcing carbon emitters to take the initiative to reduce carbon emissions.
The first phase of projects exceeding 1 billion yuan has been connected to the platform.
According to Huo Zhigang, general manager of Nannet Financial Leasing Company, the platform will help China Southern Power Grid Corporation to build a new power system, an innovative business service platform oriented to promote the establishment of a green and low-carbon circular development economic system.
Huo Zhigang said that the platform uses financial means to support the realization of the national "carbon peak and carbon neutral" strategic goal, and promotes the transformation of the main body of carbon emissions from passive emission reduction to active emission reduction; and adopts blockchain, big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies. Build an efficient and low-cost carbon-neutral and green financial service system.
At the same time, the platform will also focus on serving clean energy, energy storage, electric vehicles, energy saving and emission reduction technologies and other green energy industries. The first phase of the project has a scale of more than 1 billion yuan, which strongly supports the development of the clean energy industry.
Huo Zhigang revealed that in the next step, the platform will fully rely on the superior policy advantages of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, based on Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao and gradually spread across the country, guide all parties to contribute to clean and low-carbon, and drive upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain to actively build green development Economic ecosystem.
According to Chen Wanqing, deputy director of the Finance Bureau of Guangzhou Nansha Development Zone, Nansha is actively exploring climate investment and financing on the basis of green finance, and will develop climate investment and financing products such as climate credit, climate insurance, climate leasing, and sustainable development funds, and establish Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau. The Greater Bay Area climate investment and financing shared project library will help companies in the Greater Bay Area to issue climate bonds in Hong Kong, and contribute to Nansha's efforts to promote the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to take the lead in achieving “carbon peak” and “carbon neutrality”.
In addition, Nansha District of Guangzhou City is preparing a pilot plan for climate investment and financing, and has included the China Southern Power Grid's carbon-neutral financing leasing service platform in its task list.
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