JAKARTA - Technology companies in China are beginning to bring artificial intelligence or AI to important matters for the industry, namely calculating carbon emissions. A number of AI-based carbon management platforms were introduced at the Shanghai International Carbon Neutrality Expo 2026.
Yicai Global, quoted Thursday, June 11, reported that this technology is used to help companies calculate the emission footprint from raw materials, components, production processes, to the supply chain. The goal is that emission reductions can be calculated in more detail and data-based.
Shanghai Carbon Newture Technology was one of the companies that introduced a digital carbon management platform at the exhibition.
Shanghai Carbon Newture Technology CEO Huang Yanxing said the platform works with data search, AI modeling, and keyword-based analysis that users enter.
The system then calculates carbon emissions from several parts of production. The results are used to compile a clean energy scheme, the construction of green factories, and decarbonization recommendations tailored to the needs of the company. Decarbonization means efforts to reduce carbon emissions from business activities or production.
Huang said that each sector requires a different approach. For final consumer goods, emission reductions depend heavily on the procurement of raw materials. For upstream and intermediate sectors, such as chemicals, yarns, and cotton textiles, the production process is also an important point.
Shanghai CarbonEase Intelligent Technology displays an integrated intelligent carbon management platform. According to the company's technical partner, Wei Dongming, the platform has already served nearly 200 companies.
Around 80 percent of its clients come from the automotive industry, vehicle parts, chemicals, and construction.
Wei, quoted by Yicai Global, said that the need for carbon management has changed in recent years. Companies now want to manage their own emission data, build internal systems, and control the flow of carbon calculations from start to finish.
Pressure is also coming from foreign rules. According to Wei, companies need to adjust carbon emissions accounting and management with international regulations, including EU rules on sustainable product design and waste of electrical and electronic equipment.
Shanghai E-Carbon Digital Technology also introduced Cortex AI, an intelligent carbon footprint workstation. Carbon footprint is the amount of greenhouse gas emissions generated by a product or activity. This system is equipped with a carbon emission database to help companies calculate product emissions more accurately and meet domestic and foreign carbon audit standards. Carbon audit is an inspection to ensure carbon emission data complies with applicable standards.
According to Yicai Global, Shanghai E-C Digital also launched an AI agent for an industrial carbon data quantification and management platform in various scenarios. The AI agent is an artificial intelligence system that can automatically perform certain tasks based on data and user commands.
Shanghai E-C Digital Chairman Zhou Jing said that measurable carbon data management is like a periodic low-carbon health check for the manufacturing industry.
According to Zhou, the system not only displays the product's carbon footprint throughout the life cycle. The system also analyzes the company's emission trends to find the main points of emission reduction.
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