CM Venture Capital is a leading venture capital firm that invests in renewable carbon, advanced materials science and hard technologies. Backed by Fortune 500 companies – BASF, BAT, GE, Henkel, Heraeus, Petronas, Samsung, SABIC – CM Venture Capital has a global reach and a strong network in China. CM Venture Capital partners with ambitious entrepreneurs to build companies that address challenges in decarbonization, digital transformation, energy transformation and material transformation. To know more, visit cmventure.net
The Three Corporate Principles - Corporate Responsibility to Society; Integrity and Fairness; and Global Understanding Through Business - have served as Mitsubishi Corporation's core philosophy since the company’s inception, inspiring us to continually improve the way we address our economic, environmental, and social responsibilities around the world. Building upon the foundation of these Three Corporate Principles, our Corporate Standards of Conduct establish the Company's expectations with regard to how business should be conducted, while the Mitsubishi Corporation Code of Conduct provides guidance to our employees worldwide based on local laws and global standards such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the ILO Core Labor Standards. Furthermore, our Environmental Charter and Social Charter also provide further guidance in relation to our sustainable business endeavors.
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BAT is a consumer-focussed business operating internationally. Our multi-category approach means we are well placed to provide adult consumers with products designed for every mood and moment. Our portfolio reflects our commitment to meeting the evolving and varied needs of today’s adult consumers. We are a leading FTSE company with truly international credentials. Spread across six continents, our regions are the United States of America; Americas & Europe (AME); and Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa (APMEA).
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Herbert Smith Freehills is a leading global law firm with more than 20 offices across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and North America. We are in key financial centres and major growth hubs. With over 2,000 lawyers, we have in-depth market insights, extensive industry expertise and local knowledge to provide clients with a full range of legal services.
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Established in 2008, the Shanghai Environment & Energy Exchange is the first environmental energy trading platform in China approved by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. It is the designated trading platform for Shanghai's carbon trading pilot, the national certified voluntary emission reduction trading platform registered with the national carbon trading authority, and the national carbon emission trading system construction and operation organization designated by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment. The exchange is based on the concept of "innovating environmental energy trading mechanisms and building an environmental protection service industry chain", actively exploring rights and interest transactions in the fields of energy conservation, emission reduction and environment, and building an environmental energy trading market that "serves the whole country and faces the world". Since its establishment, Shanghai Environment & Energy Exchange has been deeply involved in the construction of national and regional carbon emission markets and carbon emission reduction markets.
www.cneeex.com
The Carbon Neutrality Action Alliance (CCNAA) is a platform established by the National Carbon Market Capacity Building (Shanghai) Center. It is led by the Shanghai Environment and Energy Exchange and jointly formed by leading companies in various industries or various market entities and professional institutions serving carbon neutrality actions. The Shanghai Environment and Energy Exchange is responsible for daily operations. The alliance aims to "advocate independent actions, promote joint participation, and achieve the dual-carbon goal as soon as possible." Relying on the national carbon market, the alliance will actively promote the standardization of carbon neutrality standards and strive to create a comprehensive platform to serve carbon neutrality needs. ccnaa.cneeex.com
China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC, 601995.SH, 3908.HK) was founded in 1995. Our experience in professional services includes leading several prominent transactions, reflecting our close involvement in China’s economic reform and development. Our vision is to become a first-class investment bank with international competitiveness.
Our extensive network and cross-border business practices have enabled us to offer high-quality, value-added financial services to a diversified client base. This includes a full-service and balanced business model that offers investment banking, equities, FICC (Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities), asset management, private equity and wealth management services, all of which draw on our comprehensive research and technology capability.
As an investment bank with Chinese roots and an international reach, we are committed to providing first-rate financial services to both our Chinese and global clients to help them achieve their goals.
www.cicc.com
FuCarbon (Shanghai) Energy Technology is in the field of carbon asset development management, energy conservation and emission reduction, in which Shanghai Technology Exchange holds a stake. It is also China's leading comprehensive dual-carbon technology solution provider. Based on years of experience in green and low-carbon energy-saving technology applications and carbon emissions reduction, it provides comprehensive solutions for government agencies, enterprises and ecosystems, supporting the goals of project carbon emissions reduction, carbon asset development and carbon neutrality.
Connecting, distributing, and controlling power and data flows - we have been developing the right products for this purpose since 1923. Whether in industrial production facilities, in the field of renewable energies, in infrastructure, or for complex device connections: our solutions are used wherever processes must run automatically. Above and beyond their pure function, they help our partners to develop sustainable applications with more efficient processes and reduced costs. We are Phoenix Contact: With innovative products and solutions, we are paving the way to a climate-neutral and sustainable world. www.phoenixcontact.com
BloombergNEF helps you gain a clear perspective on global commodity markets and the technologies driving the transition to a lower-carbon economy. With a team of trusted experts across six continents, BloombergNEF (BNEF) leverages sophisticated data sets to create clear perspectives and in-depth forecasts. These are built to frame the financial, economic and policy implications of industry-transforming trends and technologies. Our approach provides independent analysis and insight through rigorous examinations of specific sectors and markets, as well as broad, cross-sector, global trends and implications. Our clients include corporate strategy and business development professionals, finance professionals as well as policy makers and regulators. We work with the largest corporations across utilities and generation, oil & gas, equipment manufacturers, banking and finance, and government. https://about.bnef.com/
Veolia group aims to be the benchmark company for ecological transformation. In 2023, with nearly 218,000 employees worldwide, the Group designs and provides game-changing solutions that are both useful and practical for water, waste and energy management. Through its three complementary business activities, Veolia helps to develop access to resources, preserve available resources, and replenish them.
Since its entry into the Chinese market in the early 1990s, Veolia has consistently provided a comprehensive range of efficient environmental services, including water, waste, and energy management, for urban and industrial sectors. The company has actively collaborated with various stakeholders to support China's green and low-carbon transformation.
With over 11,000 employees in China, Veolia delivers professional environmental services all around China. In 2023, Veolia avoided over 880,000 tons of carbon emissions in China. www.veolia.cn
Arkema, a leader in Specialty Materials. Building on its unique set of expertise in materials science, Arkema designs materials to address the ever-growing demand for innovative and sustainable materials, driven by the challenges of new energies, new technologies, the depletion of resources, mobility, and increasing urbanization. The Group is structured into three coherent and complementary segments dedicated to Specialty Materials (Adhesive Solutions, Advanced Materials, and Coating Solutions) accounting for 92% of its sales, and an Intermediates segment leveraging competitive and global product lines.
Sustained by the collective energy of its 21,100 employees, Arkema operates in some 55 countries and reports sales of €9.5 billion.
www.arkema.com
At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. Around 112,000 employees in the BASF Group contribute to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio comprises six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care and Agricultural Solutions www.basf.com
Climate Investment is an independent organization founded by members of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative. OGCI members have invested in our funds, and have deployed many of our portfolio company innovations, supporting their early commercial development. CI invests in innovations that deliver capital-efficient decarbonization solutions and drive their market adoption through our partner networks to accelerate scaled impact. Our team looks for opportunities that can deliver strong, quantified GHG-impact and an attractive risk-adjusted return.
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Green Li-ion is a lithium-ion battery recycling technology company producing modular hardware solutions that convert spent batteries into cathode and anode material that’s ready to drop into manufacturing processes for batteries of all types. They are revolutionizing the energy storage industry with the first commercial scale modular plant solutions to fully refine and rejuvenate all forms of performance Li-ion and precious metal batteries (incl NiMh) in one step with up to 90% less carbon footprint.
https://www.greenli-ion.com/
Botree is dedicated to delivering total solutions for recycling critical battery materials. With advanced separation systems and smart equipment, Botree enables worldwide battery manufacturers, battery operators, automotive manufacturers, energy storage enterprises, and recyclers achieve short-loops in the use of battery materials. Applications include recycling of lithium batteries, hydrogen fuel cells, solid state batteries, and more.
Botree Battery Recycling is committed to providing a full set of solutions for the recycling of key battery materials. By developing new separation systems and intelligent equipment manufacturing, it enables domestic and foreign recycling companies, car companies, energy storage, battery manufacturers, battery operators and other responsible recycling entities to achieve a short-term closed loop of battery materials and promote the low-carbon sustainable development of key resources for new energy.
The team brings together top experts from internationally renowned universities, research institutions and industry-leading units across disciplines. Based on long-term research and development in the fields of battery materials, separation and purification of key metals, synthesis of extractants, and carbon footprint, it has achieved the industrialization and scale of the entire process equipment from pretreatment, separation and purification to material regeneration, developed the recycling process of hydrogen fuel cells and solid-state batteries, and the short-process separation process of mineral resources such as laterite nickel ore, and built a carbon footprint accounting system for the entire life cycle of lithium batteries that meets international standards.
Botree is the first Chinese company to join the International Energy Agency's Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Technical Cooperation Program, the leader of its battery swap working group, and a member of the key raw materials working group for electric vehicles. It is also the main editor of "Blue Book on Recycling of Retired Power Lithium Batteries", "Recycling of Power Lithium-Ion Batteries", and "Progress in Research on Next-Generation Batteries", and a member of the ISO Lithium International Standard TC333/WG5 of the International Organization for Standardization.
Anhui's Like Materials specializes in the R&D of molecular structures of functional bio-based materials. They have developed a Furanocyclic bio-based aramid fiber for battery separator coating, for a low-carbon solution, while enhancing lithium battery safety.
Like New Materials was established in July 2021. It is a technology-based enterprise focusing on the research, development, production and sales of high-performance biomass-based new materials. It is committed to providing customers with cost-effective products and services in the fields of new energy and semiconductors.
Like New Materials is deeply engaged in the molecular structure design and development of functional bio-based materials. The company has reached a deep industry-university-research cooperation relationship with the University of Science and Technology of China. The original innovative technology comes from the University of Science and Technology of China-Anhui Key Laboratory of Biomass Clean Energy, which is an interdisciplinary scientific research institution established by Anhui Province and the University of Science and Technology of China to specialize in biomass conversion research and application. It represents the highest level of research and development in this field in China.
At present, Like New Materials have deployed two major R&D and production centers in Hefei and Jiaxing. It has applied for 29 national invention patents and has obtained 14 authorizations.
Developers of lithium nickel-manganate cathode materials, which are able to support >10C fast-charging capability, while offering a 10% carbon footprint reduction, when compared with the current generation of cathode materials.
GSR ENERGY is a technology company dedicated to building the global energy internet using innovations to store, transport and deliver energy all over the world. GSR ENERGY integrates next-generation storage batteries, third-generation semiconductors, High Voltage DC transmission to distribute energy anywhere anytime reliably and affordably.
Shanghai Electric is a provider of green smart industrial solutions, including smart energy, intelligent manufacturing and integration of digital intelligence. Participating is the Shanghai Electric research institute team, which is focused on battery material recycling.
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A battery recycling company with experience in recycling graphite materials from anode sheets, to regenerate graphite, or produce silicon-carbon anodes.
Apex's mission is to make the highest energy density lithium-ion batteries in the world. Our products enable new applications and accelerate markets that couldn’t exist without the storage capabilities that we provide. http://www.apex.com.cn/
Heraeus is a family-owned global technology group headquartered in Hanau, Germany. The company’s roots go back to a family pharmacy started in 1660. With its expertise and resources, Heraeus has been making meaningful contributions over generations and is committed to do so in the future. Today, the group bundles diverse activities in four Business Platforms: Metals and Recycling, Healthcare, Semiconductor and Electronics, as well as Industrials. Customers benefit from innovative technologies and solutions based on broad materials knowledge and technological leadership.
