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🇨🇳 Shenzhen

Shenzhen Digital Enterprise Carbon Account & Green Credit Platform

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✎ Corrected 27 Aug 2026 Publication date recorded for 4 sources. What changed →

Shenzhen's carbon-account platform launched tiny — 8 banks, 8 firms, CNY311M — in July 2024. By April 2025 a wider bank group had pledged over CNY1.7bn under the same tax-data carbon score, the scale-up this entry was held back to confirm.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence🏛️ Official
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Run byCity government
Scale🧪 Pilot

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Shenzhen's 2013 emissions-trading pilot still covers ~670 industry, building, waste and transport-sector emitters that sit outside China's national ETS. In July 2024 the exchange co-launched a digital carbon-account platform that mines participating firms' tax-invoice data to estimate emissions and benchmark them against industry peers, letting banks price a differentiated 'carbon-reduction loan' by carbon performance.

Live 📅 since 2024

📊 Impact

8 banks extended CNY311M in credit to 8 pilot firms at the July 2024 launch; by April 2025 a wider bank group had signed intended financing exceeding CNY1.7bn under the same tax-data carbon-score-linked model.

🎓 Lesson

Both money figures are announcements, not disbursements: CNY311m was signed at the launch event and the CNY1.7bn is described as intended financing agreed at a matching event nine months later, so neither says how much credit has actually been drawn or at what discount. The mechanism itself carries the sharper caveat — the carbon score is inferred from tax-invoice data rather than measured emissions, which is what makes it cheap enough to cover thousands of small firms and also what makes it an estimate a bank is pricing against. The pilot exchange still covers roughly 670 emitters outside the national ETS, so this is a financing overlay on an existing scheme, not a new market.

📡 Data & IoTDigital government

Sources

↗ Shenzhen Ecology and Environment Bureau — official launch announcementThe bureau page did not return a body to automated retrieval; the launch is documented in the Sina Finance report listed here. No publication date is recorded for this page.
↗ International Carbon Action Partnership — Shenzhen pilot ETS profileA continuously updated profile page rather than a dated article; used for the standing scope of the Shenzhen pilot ETS. The page states no publication date.
↗ Sina Finance — Shenzhen enterprise carbon account launch coveragePublished 3 July 2024Press: launch-day bank/loan-scale figures (8 banks, 8 firms, CNY311M)
↗ Tencent News (Nanfang/Shenzhen municipal event readout) — climate investment-financing matching event, April 2025Published 29 April 2025Dated 2025-04-28: 9 banks sign carbon-reduction-loan-model deals with 9 more firms, 7 banks sign green-climate-loan deals with 7 more firms, over CNY1.7bn intended financing total — the scale-up confirmation this entry was held for
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Evidence Passport · public beta 8 addressable claims, 4 source dossiers, one permanent baseline. The passport is unreviewed — an AI-assisted structural migration, not a human or expert endorsement. Every revision keeps a permanent copy under revision history.

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Claim 1 clm-e6637f1c165d86fb quantitative
Shenzhen's 2013 emissions-trading pilot still covers ~670 industry, building, waste and transport-sector emitters that sit outside China's national ETS
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The ICAP profile of the Shenzhen pilot ETS gives its start year, the sectors covered and a coverage of roughly 670 entities, and notes the pilot operates alongside the national scheme.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. International Carbon Action Partnership — Shenzhen pilot ETS profile
Claim 2 clm-53a7891de032d76a quantitative
In July 2024 the exchange co-launched a digital carbon-account platform that mines participating firms' tax-invoice data to estimate emissions and benchmark them against industry peers
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The 3 July 2024 report describes the platform launch and states that enterprise carbon accounts are built from tax-invoice data and compared with sector benchmarks.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Sina Finance — Shenzhen enterprise carbon account launch coverage
Claim 3 clm-99e430b0e55d1adf descriptive
letting banks price a differentiated 'carbon-reduction loan' by carbon performance
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The same report describes banks using the carbon score to set differentiated terms on carbon-reduction lending.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Sina Finance — Shenzhen enterprise carbon account launch coverage
Claim 4 clm-60f68a04394c60d7 quantitative
8 banks extended CNY311M in credit to 8 pilot firms at the July 2024 launch
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The launch report names eight banks and eight enterprises and a signed credit volume of CNY311 million.
Caveat
Credit signed at the launch event; the report does not say how much was drawn.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Sina Finance — Shenzhen enterprise carbon account launch coverage
Claim 5 clm-c9f4fe14390fdbbd quantitative
by April 2025 a wider bank group had signed intended financing exceeding CNY1.7bn under the same tax-data carbon-score-linked model
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The 29 April 2025 event readout reports intended financing above CNY1.7 billion agreed by participating banks under the carbon-account model.
Caveat
Described as intended financing agreed at a matching event, not as credit disbursed.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Tencent News (Nanfang/Shenzhen municipal event readout) — climate investment-financing matching event, April 2025
Claim 6 clm-81aff4b49285ecb8 quantitative
CNY311m was signed at the launch event and the CNY1.7bn is described as intended financing agreed at a matching event nine months later, so neither says how much credit has actually been drawn
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Both reports describe amounts signed or intended at events; neither publishes drawn balances or the size of the interest discount.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Sina Finance — Shenzhen enterprise carbon account launch coverage
  2. Tencent News (Nanfang/Shenzhen municipal event readout) — climate investment-financing matching event, April 2025
Claim 7 clm-bea5d1800d3ce1e2 descriptive
the carbon score is inferred from tax-invoice data rather than measured emissions
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The launch report states the accounts are constructed from tax-invoice data, not from metered or reported emissions.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Sina Finance — Shenzhen enterprise carbon account launch coverage
Claim 8 clm-574769804620c8f0 quantitative
The pilot exchange still covers roughly 670 emitters outside the national ETS
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The ICAP profile gives the coverage of the Shenzhen pilot and its position alongside the national scheme.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. International Carbon Action Partnership — Shenzhen pilot ETS profile
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unreviewed Revision 2026-08-27-source-dating effective 2026-08-02 · created 2026-08-27

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4 source dossiers

Shenzhen Ecology and Environment Bureau — official launch announcement meeb.sz.gov.cn · background

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Record last verified
2026-08-02
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2026-08-27
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The bureau page did not return a body to automated retrieval; the launch is documented in the Sina Finance report listed here. No publication date is recorded for this page.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
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International Carbon Action Partnership — Shenzhen pilot ETS profile icapcarbonaction.com · 2 linked claims

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src-e280207b7ee123f7
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Name not classified · icapcarbonaction.com
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web-page · language not classified
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Record last verified
2026-08-02
Dossier created
2026-08-27
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A continuously updated profile page rather than a dated article; used for the standing scope of the Shenzhen pilot ETS. The page states no publication date.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Sina Finance — Shenzhen enterprise carbon account launch coverage finance.sina.com.cn · 5 linked claims

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src-8ca9aa9bcccbf00b
Publisher
Name not classified · finance.sina.com.cn
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web-page · language not classified
Published
2024-07-03
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-02
Dossier created
2026-08-27
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No local capture recorded
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No archived copy linked
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No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Press: launch-day bank/loan-scale figures (8 banks, 8 firms, CNY311M)

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Tencent News (Nanfang/Shenzhen municipal event readout) — climate investment-financing matching event, April 2025 news.qq.com · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

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src-30363e3c64144fdb
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Name not classified · news.qq.com
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web-page · language not classified
Published
2025-04-29
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-02
Dossier created
2026-08-27
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Dated 2025-04-28: 9 banks sign carbon-reduction-loan-model deals with 9 more firms, 7 banks sign green-climate-loan deals with 7 more firms, over CNY1.7bn intended financing total — the scale-up confirmation this entry was held for

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
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  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Shenzhen Digital Enterprise Carbon Account & Green Credit Platform” — Shenzhen, China. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/shenzhen-carbon-account-platform/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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