On July 22nd, Alibaba Group released the "2024 Environmental, Social, and Governance Report" (hereinafter referred to as the "ESG Report"). In the past year, Alibaba Group's own net carbon emissions and value chain carbon intensity continued to achieve a "double reduction", while serving its technological innovation strength and platform capabilities in barrier free, medical, rural, aging and other fields, including the landing of medical AI pancreatic cancer screening project, and the continuous expansion of Gaode wheelchair navigation.
In the past year, Alibaba has undergone a series of important organizational changes. While the group has clarified its two major business strategies of user first and AI driven, we have also made it clear that ESG remains one of Alibaba's cornerstone strategies Alibaba Group CEO Wu Yongming stated in the ESG report.
In the fiscal year 2022, ESG was officially established as one of Alibaba's cornerstone strategies, and the fiscal year 2024 is a year for Alibaba to deepen ESG governance. In the issue of environmental protection, Alibaba promotes green, low-carbon, and high-quality development by improving energy efficiency through technology, using renewable energy, and engaging ecological partners.
Data shows that in the fiscal year 2024, Alibaba achieved its "dual reduction" goals of operating carbon emissions and value chain carbon emissions intensity; The emission reduction in its own operation reached 2.32 million tons, a significant increase of 63.5% compared to the previous fiscal year; The proportion of clean electricity usage has reached 39%. The value chain emission intensity has decreased to 8.1 tons per million yuan of revenue, a year-on-year decrease of 7%.
Specifically for each business sector, Alibaba Cloud's self built data center continues to maintain its leading level of power usage efficiency (PUE) in Asia; The proportion of clean electricity usage has reached 56%. Cainiao is creating a "smart circular logistics" system and carrying out emission reduction actions in important logistics links such as orders, warehousing, packaging, and transportation. Its own operations and value chain have reduced emissions by a total of 458000 tons.
Alibaba Cloud's self built data center continues to maintain its leading level of power efficiency in Asia.
Based on the two strategies of "driving emission reduction" and "empowering emission reduction", Alibaba achieved a platform ecosystem (Scope 3+) emission reduction of 33.38 million tons in this fiscal year, a year-on-year increase of 45.5%. For example, Alibaba Cloud provides users with more green and low-carbon computing infrastructure services, empowering users to reduce emissions by 9.884 million tons in the 2024 fiscal year. Taotian Group reduces emissions by 10.1 million tons by driving consumers to purchase low-carbon friendly products and promoting the development of circular economy.
While deeply cultivating cutting-edge technologies and applications of artificial intelligence to solve its own business problems, Alibaba is also actively exploring solutions to social issues. Among them, the DAMO PANDA deep learning model developed by the medical AI team is the first to build a large-scale screening method for early pancreatic cancer, mainly through the method of "plain CT+AI", and it was launched in Lishui, Zhejiang Province; Alibaba's self-developed AI technology intelligent screening tool for Alzheimer's disease has served over 290000 elderly people; Taobao and Tmall apps will use OCR technology to help over 260000 visually impaired people "shop by listening to pictures" in the 2024 fiscal year; Gaode's wheelchair navigation system, which facilitates the travel of people with disabilities, has covered 50 cities in China and provided over 54 million accessible route plans; The Youku accessible theater film and television works serving visually impaired people have accumulated over 970000 views.
Gaode's "wheelchair navigation" provides over 54 million accessible route plans.
In addition, in the fiscal year 2024, the number of active silent riders on Ele.me increased to 5786. Behind the numbers, Ele.me has launched electronic communication cards, intelligent outbound calls, and other functions to solve the problem of hearing impairment and speech barriers, providing them with equal employment opportunities.