Against the background of ongoing progress toward China's "dual carbon" goals, manufacturing companies are the largest consumers of energy and producers of carbon emissions, so they are feeling growing pressure to shift toward greener operations. Cutting carbon output matters not just for improving our ecosystems and environment, it also affects how companies control their costs, how well they compete in the market, and how much long-term development capacity they can build up. This paper looks at the real-world starting points, core approaches, ways to measure results, and supporting systems that manufacturing companies use to cut their carbon emissions, and it examines what specific contributions technology upgrades, better energy use, tighter process management, and digital tools make to cutting emissions overall. The work shows that manufacturing companies can only make their low-carbon transition more sustainable and effective, and reach the point where both green development and economic performance improve together, when they fully weave carbon-cutting steps into their daily production and operations and put a solid, science-based evaluation system in place.
Song Fenghua (Wed,) studied this question.