Alibaba Group Carbon Neutrality Action Report 2021

The Industrial Revolution has brought economic prosperity unparalleled in human history. By 2020, global per capita GDP had reached US$11,000, a 10-fold increase from before industrialization. However, over the past 200 years, human demand for fossil energy and other non-renewable resources expanded exponentially. Natural resources are now consumed at a rate nearly twice the Earth's rate of regeneration. Large quantities of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from anthropogenic activities have become the main cause of global climate change, resulting in more frequent and intensive natural disasters, ecological degradation, and pollution in the air, soil, and water. It is posing a serious threat to the long-term survival of human beings and natural ecosystems.