New York City, USA, Sep 28, 2025—From September 21 to 28, 2025, the series of events for the 2025 Climate Week NYC took place in the United States. As one of the world's most influential climate gatherings, this year's Climate Week NYC brought together climate leaders, corporate executives, and renowned scholars from around the globe to discuss how to accelerate the global green transition.
Eric Luo, Vice President of LONGi, was invited to attend as a company representative and participated in several high-level dialogues, engaging in in-depth discussions with global leaders on topics such as economic green transformation and corporate pathways to achieving zero carbon.
In the discussions, Eric Luo pointed out, "The challenges of decarbonizing manufacturing and supply chains are no longer confined to the technical level but stem more from the uncertainty of the external environment faced by enterprises." He emphasized that while this uncertainty poses an obstacle to transformation, it also drives enterprises with foresight to place "building long-term resilience" at the core of their strategy. LONGi has consistently deeply integrated resilience building into its investment and supply chain management, thereby enhancing its risk resistance capability and achieving sustainable cost reduction and efficiency improvement.
In his view, amid the global trend of energy transition, decarbonization should not be seen as a "cost burden" for enterprises but as a "value engine" driving growth—its opportunities are tangible and its outcomes quantifiable. LONGi not only regards decarbonization as a goal for sustainable development but has also made it a key component of its core competitiveness.
Taking the LONGi Jiaxing base as an example, after being recognized as a "Lighthouse Factory" by the World Economic Forum, the base was recently certified as a "Zero Carbon Factory" according to the ISO 14068 standard, making it the first dual-certified "Lighthouse + Zero Carbon" factory in the global photovoltaic industry.
By deeply integrating cutting-edge technologies such as industrial internet, big data, artificial intelligence, and digital twins, the LONGi Jiaxing base has also achieved agile manufacturing, quality improvement, and reduced energy consumption, providing a replicable model for green intelligent manufacturing and setting a new benchmark for low-carbon transformation in the PV industry.
When discussing material innovation and the circular economy, Eric Luo stated that LONGi continuously drives industry cost reduction and efficiency improvement through technological innovation and is committed to building a full life-cycle management closed-loop for PV products to promote efficient resource recycling. The company has established comprehensive recycling systems for the silicon wafer cutting and module manufacturing processes, enabling the circular regeneration of raw materials. Currently, the proportion of recyclable materials in LONGi's PV modules has reached 94%, creating a replicable paradigm for a green closed-loop in the industry.
Regarding the socio-economic impact of decarbonization, Eric Luo believes that a successful corporate transformation requires a "dual-track parallel" strategy: accelerating decarbonization while ensuring the inclusivity, accessibility, and fairness of the transition process. This involves not only technological carbon reduction but also social responsibility, community engagement, skills training, and diverse and inclusive employment practices.
LONGi integrates its "LIGHT" sustainable development concept into its corporate DNA, placing people, inclusivity, and shared prosperity at the heart of its climate actions. Guided by the mission of " Affordable for all," the company promotes a fair energy transition through green technology innovation, striving to extend the benefits of decarbonization to broader communities and jointly build an equitable and resilient future.
About LONGi
Founded in 2000, LONGi (Stock code: 601012. SH) is committed to being the world's leading solar technology company, focusing on customer-driven value creation for full scenario energy transformation.
Under its mission of 'making the best of solar energy to build a green world', LONGi has dedicated itself to technology innovation and established several business sectors, covering mono silicon wafers, cells and modules, commercial & industrial distributed solar solutions, green energy solutions, building integrated photovoltaic and hydrogen equipment. As an international company, LONGi's business covers more than 160 countries and regions. Actively practicing its "Solar for Solar" concept, LONGi is accelerating the global transition to sustainable energy and promoting energy equity, enabling more people around the world to access affordable clean energy.
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