China Crop Protection Low Carbon Alliance established

The China Crop Protection Low Carbon Alliance, the first low-carbon alliance in the crop protection industry in China, was established on July 29, 2024, jointly among the eight companies - Fuhua Tongda Chemical Co., Ltd, Syngenta (China) Investment Co., Ltd, Beijing Nutrichem, Nantong CAC International, Lier Chemical, Hebei Chengxin Group Co., Ltd, Limin Co., Ltd and Nanjing Red Sun Co., Ltd.

Members of the China Crop Protection Low Carbon Alliance

In the context of the carbon peak and carbon neutrality initiative, controlling energy consumption and reducing carbon emissions have become the focus of attention of all enterprises. To this end, policy, data, and technology support are required to gradually establish a green and intelligent high-end industry system.

Establishing the crop protection low carbon alliance is an important step forward in achieving the objective of carbon peak and carbon neutrality in the crop protection industry. The low-carbon alliance is expected to promote clean production-based technology and low-carbon-oriented technology innovation via cooperation and resource sharing among members to facilitate the crop protection industry's green, low-carbon, and sustainable development.

At the kick-off meeting, Li Ruiqi, Joint General Manager of Fuhua Tongda Chemical, gave a briefing on the Regulations of Crop Protection Low Carbon Alliance (Try out), which cover objectives, tasks, rights, and obligations of the alliance members as well as the subsequent job assignments of the low-carbon alliance, pinpointing the direction of the future operations of the low-carbon alliance, specific goals and time-bound next steps of working arrangement.

In the meantime, the initiating members of the alliance made a presentation of what they had done so far regarding green and low-carbon development, having addressed the current and future issues and challenges, including valuable suggestions for the follow-up operations of the low-carbon alliance.

Sun Shubao, President of the China Crop Protection Industry Association (CCPIA), says that agricultural green development has become a global consensus in globalization and the battle against climate change. As an essential part of agriculture, establishing the Crop Protection Low Carbon Alliance reflects the positive response and responsibility within the crop protection industry towards ecological conservation.

As the key initiator of the alliance, Zhang Hua, board chairman of Fuhua Tongda Chemical, says that the green and low-carbon development of the crop protection industry is not only related to the sustainable development of the ecological environment and agriculture but is also associated with human health and food security. As the carbon peaking and carbon neutrality objectives are drawing near, the carbon risk is one of the top risks to be tackled by crop protection enterprises in the years ahead. 

Zhang Hua, board chairman of Fuhua Tongda Chemical

Going ahead, the competition in the crop protection industry will shift from cost and performance to innovation, application, and green low-carbon development. Chinese enterprises should create new methods and achievements in green and low-carbon development. Establishing a low-carbon alliance in the crop protection industry aims to conduct policy analysis, prepare industry standards, consolidate industry resources, promote carbon trading, and guide crop protection enterprises in gaining a competitive advantage in the low-carbon development initiative. This reflects the responsibility of industry leaders to uphold the banner of low-carbon development to promote the green and low-carbon development of the crop protection industry.