On June 10, at the opening ceremony of the 18th (2025) SNEC PV+ International Solar Photovoltaic & Energy Storage Technology and Equipment Exhibition (Shanghai), the “Global Green Carbon Chain Alliance Initiative” was officially launched. The initiative was jointly spearheaded by more than 20 authoritative organizations and leading companies, including the Global Green Energy Council (GGEIC), Asia New Energy Industry Association (NEIAAP), Asia Photovoltaic Industry Association (APVIA), GCL Group, Ant Group, and TÜV Rheinland.

At a critical moment of global energy transformation and accelerated implementation of China’s dual-carbon strategy, green development has become the defining feature of high-quality growth. As a benchmark for “new quality productivity”, the photovoltaic (PV) industry shoulders the mission of leading global sustainable development. As one of the core initiators, GCL Group, with its full PV industry chain layout, low-carbon technology innovations, and digital carbon footprint management, plays a key role in driving the initiative. Its experience and practices provide a global reference model for the PV industry’s zero-carbon transformation.

Zhu Gongshan, Chairman of GCL Group, and Chairman of the Asia Photovoltaic Industry Association, stated that the formation of the Global Green Carbon Chain Alliance aims to translate China’s low-carbon PV practices into globally replicable models, making “new quality productivity” a green engine across the entire value chain and helping the global PV industry move toward a zero-carbon future. His remarks highlight both GCL’s deep industry insight and its commitment to building a “chain-synergy” benchmark system for sustainable, low-carbon PV production.

The initiative focuses on three major action areas, in which GCL is taking a leading role:

1. Establishing a full value chain carbon footprint management system: Leveraging the low-carbon advantages of particle silicon and the Carbon Chain Management Platform, GCL enables visualized tracking, quantifiable accounting, and verifiable certification of the carbon footprint for modules made from particle silicon, providing a replicable digital carbon management solution.

2. Cultivating a photovoltaic carbon footprint ecosystem: GCL promotes vertical collaboration across upstream and downstream industry partners, linking material innovation, smart manufacturing, and scenario-based applications to drive low-carbon industrial clusters. Simultaneously, the “PV+” ecosystem is expanded to explore carbon reduction synergies with energy storage, smart energy, and other sectors.

3. Strengthening carbon footprint management practices and policy support: GCL actively participates in the development of national carbon footprint standards, aligning with international requirements for data reliability, and building a trustworthy bridge for Chinese PV enterprises to integrate into the global carbon management system.

Driven by dual-carbon goals, the global PV industry is entering a critical transition from scale expansion to quality improvement. GCL’s leadership in the Global Green Carbon Chain Alliance demonstrates its corporate social responsibility and its strategic choice to act as a “chain owner” guiding industry upgrades. As the initiative deepens, GCL’s “chain-synergy” concept will reshape the PV industry ecosystem, opening new pathways for global zero-carbon transformation and enhancing China’s rule-making and discourse power in global carbon management.

During the same day, the “Global Green Energy Leadership Dialogue” roundtable brought together leading experts and executives from industry, academia, and research institutions. GCL Group’s Chief Sustainability Officer Song Yunbo joined representatives including Xie Minghui (China Academy of Environmental Sciences), Shen Wenzhong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), GoodWe, Ant Group, EAEST, APVIA, and others, to discuss lifecycle low-carbon industrial strategies, international standard alignment, and digital carbon empowerment, building a consensus on zero-carbon transformation.

Song Yunbo shared GCL’s full value chain carbon reduction practices, emphasizing that particle silicon’s unique low-carbon properties enable a “carbon reduction relay” across the downstream industry. Through end-to-end collaborative innovation, China can accelerate the creation of a zero-carbon PV product system from raw materials to final modules, gaining a competitive edge in global markets and leading the industry toward low- and zero-carbon development.

Currently, GCL Group has established the GCL Carbon Chain Management Platform, enabling visual tracking, quantifiable accounting, and reliable verification of module carbon footprints derived from particle silicon, setting a demonstrative model for carbon management across the industry.