Bureau Veritas and Envision Group Launched the Strategic Partnership to Promote Full-life-cycle Carbon Management Service
On October 15, Bureau Veritas (hereinafter referred to as "BV") and Envision Group (hereinafter referred to as "Envision") announced a strategic partnership in Shanghai. Both will make joint efforts to provide a one-stop zero-carbon solution, create a demonstration project of carbon neutrality, set an industrial benchmark, and empower different industries to achieve the "dual-carbon" goals (to peak carbon dioxide emissions and carbon neutrality) as soon as possible.
The signing ceremony of strategic partnership was attended by Jing Han, Senior Vice President, President of Greater China and Northeast Asia, Bureau Veritas; Jack Yang, General Manager of BNF, Bureau Veritas; , Jie Sun, Vice President of Envision Smart Business and General Manager of Envision Carbon Management Business, and Ge Xing, General Manager of Envision Smart Zero-carbon Business Development.
According to the agreement, BV and Envision will establish a multi-dimensional business and technology cooperation of carbon neutrality and build a strategic partnership of carbon neutrality. Envision, as the zero-carbon technology partner, will cooperate with BV to forge the "best practice of digital carbon verification service" in the context of carbon neutrality and digital era, and to facilitate a digital and smart life-cycle carbon management service.
Ms. Jing Han Jing remarked, "BV is very pleased to cooperate with Envision to integrate strengths and resources of both parties to build a strategic partnership in carbon neutrality. Visions and missions of both parties are very compatible as evidenced by highly complementary business distribution and global layout. BV is one of the world-renowned consulting agencies engaged in testing, inspection, certification and technical consultation, which translates the in-depth knowledge of industry chains and customers into inspection and testing processes and the data into digital platforms thanks to the joint efforts of 78,000 employees worldwide. We expect that the partnership between BV and Envision will create concerted efforts to implement projects and create sustainable value for the society."
Jie Suncommented," To optimize the industry standardization mechanism in carbon neutrality, Envision and BV will jointly forge and promote the net-zero industrial park and net-zero enterprise standards, and facilitate the construction of digital carbon management and consultation system. They will promote the mechanism construction of industry standards to assist enterprises, governments and other organizations in achieving their goals of carbon neutrality."
Both companies agree that the crucial commitment of peaking carbon dioxide emissions and carbon neutrality are in line the context of the new era. Therefore, BV and Envision will continue to jointly expand market-driven dual-carbon businesses, develop dual-carbon related products, create a number of demonstration projects of buildings, plants and regions featuring carbon neutrality, and promote the construction of digital carbon management and consultation system in order to better serve national, local, industrial and enterprise carbon neutrality, enhance the awareness of carbon neutrality among enterprises, and assist enterprises in achieving their goals of carbon neutrality and fulfilling their value of carbon neutrality.
In the "2021 Ordos Net-Zero Industry Summit" held on October 12, BV and Envision jointly launched the first "Global Net-Zero Industrial Park Standard" in the world, which put forward four requirements for the industrial park, i.e. zero-carbon energy system, smart industry and technology, smart infrastructure and low-carbon social transformation, which are in line with the international standards and meet the requirements of the Paris Agreement and the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), thus beneficial for enterprises in the park to realize zero-carbon transformation.