Innovative zero-carbon footprint materials to achieve zero emissions-Lei Huanli, President of Covestro China, talks about circular economy

As the world's leading supplier of raw materials, Covestro regards the full implementation of circular economy as the company's new vision, and hopes to accelerate the transformation to circular economy by making production and products fully comply with the concept of circular economy in the long term

Promote innovation with sustainable development

Covestro’s innovative carbon dioxide technology reuses carbon dioxide as a raw material in the production of polyols

Lei Huanli believes that this innovation is a scientific breakthrough

Lei Huanli said that in the future, Covestro hopes to be able to produce carbon dioxide-based polyols on a large scale

"From the cradle to the door" to achieve zero carbon emissions

According to the international greenhouse gas accounting system, the greenhouse gas emissions of enterprises are divided into three scopes: scope one refers to the direct emissions generated by corporate emission sources; scope two refers to the indirect emissions produced by enterprises purchasing electricity, heat and steam for production; scope The third is also indirect emissions, including the total emissions generated by the company's upstream and downstream industrial chains

Lei Huanli explained that at present, most companies' carbon emission reduction methods are to reduce Scope 1 and Scope 2 carbon emissions through energy conservation, emission reduction and purchase of renewable electricity, while the carbon reduction potential of Scope 3 has not yet been fully exploited

How can companies effectively reduce Scope 3 carbon emissions? Lei Huanli said that purchasing zero-carbon or low-carbon upstream raw materials is one way out

　　She further explained that the "cradle-to-door" zero carbon emissions emphasized by Covestro means that the carbon footprint from the extraction of raw materials to the time the product leaves the factory door is zero

　　Add zero-carbon products to meet market demand

　　Previously, Covestro planned to first introduce renewable energy into the production of its European factories this year to further reduce carbon emissions, thereby producing polycarbonate with a zero carbon footprint "from the cradle to the door"

　　The polyurethane MDI produced by Covestro using renewable raw materials can reduce carbon emissions and is also a veritable low-carbon product

　　Lei Huanli said: “In the near future, people will see many products made of zero-carbon polycarbonate or low-carbon polyurethane MDI, such as glasses, tables and chairs, LED lights, and refrigerators