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Research on Financial Development Mechanism and Path of Forestry Carbon
Sequestration in Developing Countries under Double Carbon Targets

enterprises, attaching importance to ESG and making large investments in the short
term may increase the cost of the enterprise. However, in the long term, both within the
enterprise and in terms of social links and platform ecology, it can help the enterprise
to enhance its competitiveness and achieve win-win results in social values. With the
continuous deepening of ESG management level in China, many enterprises will be
guided to pay more attention to their own ESG construction. From a more far-reaching
level, ESG management can enable enterprises to integrate into the “double-cycle” new
development pattern with higher standards. This is a major responsibility for platform
enterprises including Proview and JD.COM, and is also the key to the steady growth of
the e-commerce industry.
Climate change is a major challenge facing the whole world. The realization of
“peak carbon dioxide emissions, carbon neutrality” and the low-carbon transforma-
tion of various industries have become an inevitable trend. Since China announced in
September 2020 that its carbon dioxide emissions would peak by 2030 and strive to
achieve the carbon neutral target by 2060, more and more enterprises have begun to
design and publish their own carbon neutral targets and implementation roadmap. On
March 12, 2021, Ant Group officially announced its carbon neutralization target, name-
ly, it promised to achieve carbon neutralization for operating emissions from this year
and regularly disclose the progress of carbon neutralization, achieve net zero emissions
by 2030, and regularly disclose the progress of carbon neutralization from 2021. In or-
der to achieve this goal, Ant Group has adopted major measures including energy-sav-
ing and emission-reduction transformation, green building construction and operation,
green supply chain, green office and green investment, etc. It can be seen from this that
with the continuous expansion of the market scale of the e-commerce industry, its role
in the economic society is becoming more and more important. The low-carbon devel-
opment of the e-commerce industry will become an important part in the process of
realizing China’s carbon neutral target.
In recent years, the scale of the e-commerce industry has been continuously ex-
panding, the volume of transactions has been increasing year by year, the number of
e-commerce practitioners has also been increasing, and its carbon emissions have also
been increasing with the expansion of the enterprise market. The e-commerce industry,
as a new type of industry that has rapidly emerged in recent years, has less high carbon
emissions than traditional energy industries such as thermal power and electric power,
but it still has the responsibility to help achieve “carbon neutrality”. However, under
this trend, most e-commerce enterprises still do not realize the importance of low-car-

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