Recently, 2023 China listed real estate enterprises high-quality development Forum and the third China listed real estate enterprises comprehensive competitiveness report conference was held in Beijing. At the meeting, China Real Estate News, the chief financial media of real estate in charge of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and China Academy of Urban and Regional Governance announced the joint launch of “2023 Green Real Estate Tour — China’s Green Building two-carbon Strategy and sustainable development Power Visit, research and Exchange meeting”. Schneider Electric, as a leader in digitalization and sustainability, was invited to participate in the project as a corporate expert.
It is reported that since 2011, China Real Estate News began to regularly release professional reports on green real estate, committed to promoting the green development of the industry. In 2020, China put forward the two-carbon goal for the first time, and in the follow-up Action Plan for Achieving Carbon Peak before 2030 issued by The State Council, it was emphasized that “green building standards will be fully implemented for new urban buildings by 2025”. Green and low-carbon has become an important issue for the high-quality development of listed real estate enterprises. Chai Duo, executive director of the China Academy of Urban and Regional Governance and associate professor of the Central University of Finance and Economics, said at the conference that the real estate industry has made great contributions to the social economy in the past, and now in the new historical stage, it should bring diversified values, including ecological values, to society through the green development model.
In order to deeply assess the implementation of the dual-carbon strategy and the process of green and sustainable development of real estate enterprises, promote the high-quality development of the real estate industry, and help the national green development plan, “2023 Green Real Estate Tour — China’s dual-Carbon Strategy and Sustainable Development of green Buildings Visit, Research and Exchange Meeting” (hereinafter referred to as “Green Real Estate Tour”) should be launched.
In addition to being co-sponsored by China Real Estate News and China Academy of Urban and Regional Governance, the Green Real Estate Research Group also invited many professional institutions and experts, covering authoritative media, academic research institutions, representatives of industry associations, and enterprise experts in the field of sustainable development, to help real estate enterprises to analyze the problems of green development in an all-round way. At the press conference, Li Liping, President of Construction Industry Branch of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Zhang Fang, deputy director of ESG Investment Research Center of Beijing Green Gold Institute, Yang Shangping, deputy general manager of Five Mines Real Estate and Party Committee member, Jiang Dongjun, market director of housing industry of Schneider Electric Smart Home Business Department and other guests jointly pressed the activity launch button for Green Real estate bank.
According to reports, green real estate bank research activities will be launched from typical excellent housing enterprises. In the process of visiting and researching, based on the development status of real estate enterprises in green and low-carbon aspects, practical suggestions and solutions including green products, low-carbon transformation, ESG performance improvement and other aspects were provided to real estate enterprises through panel reports, speeches by relevant experts, interactive discussions and other forms. At the same time, the research group will make a summary report on the results of the visit at the end of the year, and bring the green development cases of housing enterprises with reference value to the industry.
As a practitioner and enabler of sustainable development, Schneider Electric has rich experience in sustainable development practice. As a practitioner, Schneider Electric incorporated sustainable development into the core of its corporate strategy as early as 2002. It built an end-to-end green supply chain covering green design, green procurement, green manufacturing, green delivery and green operation and maintenance, and realized that more than 70% of its global revenue came from products and solutions that have a positive impact on climate change. As an enabler, Schneider Electric helps achieve carbon reduction goals by providing leading digital solutions that empower all industries to improve quality and efficiency. Since 2018, Schneider Electric has helped customers cut carbon emissions by 458 million tons worldwide. In this survey activity of Green Real Estate Bank, Schneider Electric will be the special invited enterprise experts to discuss the status quo and implementation process of low-carbon transformation and sustainable development with real estate enterprises, and provide referential carbon reduction ideas and solutions.
Schneider Electric smart home business Department housing industry market director Jiang Dongjun said that the double carbon era has officially opened, sustainable development to accelerate to practice, green real estate will undoubtedly help the industrial chain to jointly explore the way of green development of the industry. Schneider Electric will also rely on global sustainable development concepts and practices and rich digital expertise to help real estate companies build full life cycle carbon reduction capabilities and light up the future high-quality development path.