In February this year, Tencent announced its plan to achieve full carbon neutrality and 100% green power in its operation and supply chain no later than 2030.

As the company regards sustainable development as the top priority of operation Tencent perspective It reviewed and summarized the views of Tencent people who directly participated in carbon neutrality projects on carbon neutrality, and why carbon neutrality became one of the company's strategic goals.

Ma Huateng, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Tencent, first talked about carbon neutrality at the staff meeting in 2020. At that time, he mentioned that the arrival of the COVID-19 epidemic made him pay more attention to the relationship between people and nature, and also made him realize that enterprises should pay more attention to the relationship between enterprises and the environment, climate and nature in the future development. He said, "As a technology enterprise, Tencent should also consider our plans and commitments as soon as possible."

As one of the company's senior executives, David Wallerstein, Tencent's chief exploration official website, has always insisted on integrating the belief of addressing environmental challenges into the enterprise's development strategy.

"I see that human activities for survival affect the earth's ecology and make the earth's ecosystem face many challenges ， ”Wang Dawei said, "We are now studying FEW (food, energy and water), carbon emissions and other issues. Just like when we first came into contact with the Internet, we don't know what to do. But over time, the situation will change 。 ”

Lin Jinghua, senior vice president of Tencent Group, who leads carbon neutrality related strategies, believes that "carbon neutrality is by no means an independent process". In February this year live broadcast It pointed out that Tencent should not only achieve its own carbon neutrality, but also become a "connector" to promote low-carbon transformation and promote the historical process of transformation to a low-carbon society.

Zhai Yongping, senior adviser of Tencent's carbon neutrality strategy, has been working on carbon neutrality almost all his life. He proposed that "cross sectoral collaboration is indispensable in the process of achieving carbon neutrality". He is over 50 years old and now insists on walking to and from work every day, more than 20000 steps a day. "At this age, I am very, very excited to be able to exert my lifelong accumulation and make some contributions to the society through Tencent." （ read Interview with Zhai Yongping - how science and technology solve the triple challenge of energy problem)

As the head of Tencent's smart industry and service industry, Li Qiang firmly believes that digital technology will be ubiquitous and play an important role in enterprises' promotion of dual carbon.

Over the years, Li Qiang led the team to focus on the output of Tencent's digital technology and find the best path for the industry to double carbon.

Xu Hao, the head of the Carbon Neutralization Laboratory, believes that our current efforts in carbon neutrality are paving the way for the future, although this generation of pioneers may not see immediate results.

He made an analogy, "If you plant a birch today, you will plant it for children; if you plant a pine tree, you will plant it for grandchildren. By the time the pine tree can be cut, the tree growers will no longer be there, but the results left are very important for our descendants." （ read Understand Xu Hao's views on the company's carbon neutral commitment)