On September 19, at the “International Industrial Sustainable Development Forum and Sino-German Green Manufacturing Conference” at the China International Industry Fair, CCID Research Institute and Siemens (China) jointly issued the “Enterprise Green Sea White Paper”. The white paper aims to clarify the international situation and stage challenges faced by Chinese enterprises going overseas, propose systematic solutions for digital green coordination, provide guidance and reference for enterprises going green and forging international competitiveness, and help enterprises develop with high quality.

The increasingly complex external environment requires overseas enterprises to accelerate the formation of green competitiveness. Carbon pricing policies represented by carbon markets and carbon border regulation mechanisms (CBAM), circular economy policies represented by ecodesign, full life cycle management and recycling, compliance and reporting policies represented by value chain carbon management and mandatory disclosure, The requirement that Chinese enterprises going overseas should have the ability to quantify organizational and product-level carbon emissions, build a circular economy system, and create a sustainable value chain has brought compliance challenges to enterprises going overseas.

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Overseas enterprises generally face four challenges: strategy, management, data and application. At the strategic level, the unclear carbon reduction strategy and roadmap, the imperfect carbon governance structure, and the insufficient ability to identify and control carbon risks restrict the high-quality sustainable development of enterprises; At the management level, the low level of carbon monitoring, the lack of scientific carbon management performance appraisal mechanism, and the limited collaborative work ability within enterprises and upstream and downstream of the value chain affect the efficiency and quality of low-carbon production of enterprises. At the data level, the low quality of carbon emission accounting data, the difficulty in obtaining upstream and downstream carbon emission data of the value chain, the small coverage of third-party certification, and the questionable credibility of data reporting hinder the digitization process of enterprises. At the application level, the lack of systematization, applicability and effectiveness of digital solutions weakens the efficiency of corporate governance.

The greening of digital empowerment is a game-breaking way for enterprises to cope with challenges and go to sea smoothly. Digitalization can effectively lead to the intelligent upgrading of production and service systems, promote the extension and expansion of the industrial chain and value chain, and integrate development to effectively address the above challenges. Overseas enterprises should actively use digital technology to find out the “carbon background”, interactive value chain data, and plan the optimal carbon reduction strategy, so as to establish a sound carbon management system, performance measurement indicators and collaboration system, promote the coordinated development of stakeholders, and realize low-carbon transformation and green sea with low cost and high efficiency.

Multi-party action to build a service ecology is an important guarantee for enterprises to go green. The government has adopted precise policies to create a good policy environment for the green development of enterprise digitalization. Enterprises actively embrace the digital blue ocean and forge their own digital green productivity. Service agencies give full play to their technical advantages to customize digital green system solutions for enterprises. Through multi-party linkage, a good ecology of intelligent, green and integrated development has gradually formed, helping enterprises to go green and sail far away.