Recently, the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) was held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. At the scene, Niu Zhijing, Vice President and General Manager of Marketing and ESG of Cainiao Group, shared a series of practices in helping green logistics innovation with Cainiao's digital technology.
Cainiao is one of the first companies in China's express logistics industry to launch green actions, and now has one of the world's largest smart logistics networks and the world's largest digital network of Cainiao Post Stations. With its digital advantages and logistics capabilities, Cainiao has not only initiated the world's largest green** practice, but also has a lower carbon emission intensity than the industry average. According to Niu Zhijing, Cainiao has formed a full-link green logistics solution for upstream and downstream partners, and promotes low-carbon transformation by widely applying digital technology to core logistics links such as orders, packaging, transportation, and **.
Niu Zhijing, Vice President of Cainiao Group, General Manager of Marketing Public Relations and ESG, shared green logistics. ）
In terms of orders, in the past three years, Cainiao's electronic face sheets have been applied to more than 100 billion packages, saving 400 billion paper face sheets for the industry, and cross-border packages using Cainiao's smart order combination technology can greatly reduce packaging and end secondary distribution.
In the packaging process, the Cainiao intelligent packing algorithm can recommend the optimal box type in less than 1 second, and this technology is widely used in the Cainiao warehouse, helping 300 million parcels per yearIn addition, Cainiao has also implanted RFID (Precision Radio Frequency Identification) chips on the green circulation box, which can effectively avoid the inefficiency of manual verification and greatly reduce the loss rate in turnover. In fiscal year 2023, Cainiao's green recycling boxes were used 130,000 times.
Cainiao's self-developed path algorithm has 36 world records in vehicle scheduling, and by optimizing route planning, Cainiao can greatly reduce the delivery distance in logistics and transportation.
Rookie RFID recycling box and green ** Xi book at COP28 site. ）
Connecting consumers at one end and businesses at the other, Cainiao's green carbon reduction practice has always been with customers and the industry. As early as 2016, Cainiao encouraged consumers to participate in express packaging** at Cainiao Station, and this green action has continued to this day, developing into the world's largest green ** practice.
At COP28, Niu Zhijing also showed a Xi book made by consumers participating in the reinvention of express packaging ** at Cainiao Station, which has been sent to 19 rural primary and secondary schools in Daliangshan, Sichuan Province many times to convey the concept of green ** to students.
While encouraging consumers to participate extensively, Cainiao is also cooperating with a number of brand merchants to expand green ** to multiple categories such as used clothes, used shoes, and used books. At present, Cainiao's digital carbon asset management system has reached cooperation with the postal industry in 7 provinces and cities, nearly 100 domestic universities and more than 40 brand merchants.
At the scene, many guests gave positive feedback on Cainiao's green logistics carbon reduction practice. Niu Zhijing said that Cainiao insists on promoting green logistics innovation through digital technology, which also makes Cainiao's ESG operations more sustainable, "ESG is a long-term strategy of Cainiao, which is closely integrated with various businesses, and we also hope to work together with global merchant brands and research institutions to actively create sustainable green logistics." ”