Eric pushed the handle into
neutral.
埃里克将手柄扳到空挡。
Mary said in a
neutral voice, "You're very late, darling."
玛丽不动声色的说：“你迟到了，亲爱的。”
In a show of its commitment to helping China lower its emissions, the company — aiming to become operationally carbon neutral by 2035 — will increase its use of renewable energy such as solar and wind power at the Covestro Integrated Site Shanghai from the current 30 percent to 50 percent this year, added Steilemann.
Steilemann补充道，该公司的目标是到2035年实现碳中和的运营，为了表明其帮助中国降低排放的承诺，该公司将在今年将Covestro综合场地上海的太阳能和风能等可再生能源使用率从目前的30%提高到50%。
BI China also saw its human pharma production and supply site in Zhangjiang, Shanghai become the first carbon neutral pharmaceutical plant certified by both Guangzhou Emission Exchange and TUV Rheinland last year.
去年，BI中国还在上海张江的人类制药生产和供应基地成为第一家获得广州排放交易所和莱茵TUV认证的碳中和的制药厂。
"This will account for 30 percent of the Shanghai site's power needs and reduce Covestro's carbon dioxide emissions by around 126,000 metric tons annually," he said, adding the group aims to become climate neutral by 2035 and is systematically converting its production worldwide to renewable energies to achieve this goal.
他说：“这将占上海工厂电力需求的30%，并每年减少约12.6万公吨的二氧化碳排放。”他补充道，该集团的目标是到2035年实现气候中和，并正在系统地将其全球生产转化为可再生能源，以实现这一目标。
"Covestro aims to become climate neutral by 2035 and is systematically converting its production worldwide to renewable energies to achieve this goal," Covestro CEO Markus Steilemann said.
科思创首席执行官Markus Steilemann表示：“科思创的目标是到2035年实现气候中性，并正在系统地将其全球生产转化为可再生能源，以实现这一目标。”。
"For tenants, building-related emissions reduction is a tangible indicator of corporate ESG (environment, social and governance) performance, and setting up measurable and sustainable development targets with building operators will also be a major part of corporate carbon neutral solutions," Wang added.
王补充道：“对于租户来说，与建筑相关的减排是企业ESG（环境、社会和治理）绩效的一个有形指标，与建筑运营商一起制定可衡量的可持续发展目标也将是企业碳中和的解决方案的主要组成部分。”。
In an exclusive interview with China Daily, Xiong said China's green transformation will contribute a lot to the world, and the world cannot achieve any carbon neutral objectives without China.
熊在接受《中国日报》独家采访时表示，中国的绿色转型将为世界做出巨大贡献，没有中国，世界就无法实现任何碳中和的目标。
The company's production facility in Zhangjiang, in Shanghai's Pudong New Area, recently attained carbon neutral certification from the Guangzhou Emission Exchange and TUV Rheinland, making it the first carbon neutral plant in China's pharmaceutical industry to be certified by both domestic and foreign authorities, the company announced on Friday.
该公司周五宣布，该公司位于上海浦东新区张江的生产设施最近获得了广州排放交易所和莱茵TUV的碳中和的认证，这使其成为中国制药行业第一家获得国内外权威机构认证的碳中和的工厂。
China is massively important for Shell as the country goes full throttle on its green energy transition with the aim of becoming carbon neutral by 2060, which is expected to provide massive opportunities for global energy corporations like Shell, said Jason Wong, executive chairman of Shell Companies in China, during an interview in Beijing on Thursday.
壳牌公司中国区执行主席Jason Wong周四在北京接受采访时表示，随着中国全力推进绿色能源转型，目标是到2060年实现碳中和的，预计这将为壳牌等全球能源公司提供巨大机遇，中国对壳牌非常重要。
"Zhang Liping, Liby's chief scientist, said: "The use of recyclable packaging and PCR resins is one of Liby's sustainability focuses, which also supports China's peak emissions and carbon neutral goals.
立比的首席科学家张立平说：“使用可回收包装和PCR树脂是立比的可持续发展重点之一，这也支持中国的峰值排放和碳中和的目标。
"In China, because websites are not used as a primary means to know about brands, there are almost no neutral places for brands to get customers to go to that place.
“在中国，由于网站并不是了解品牌的主要手段，品牌几乎没有中立的地方可以让客户去那里。
"By taking advantage of our existing petrochemical industry chain, we will build a new petrochemical production base to enable the mass production of SAF in China, contributing to greenhouse gas emission reductions in the aviation sector and China's carbon neutral goals," said Wang Mingxiang, chairman of Oriental Energy.
东方能源董事长王明祥表示：“通过利用我们现有的石化产业链，我们将建立一个新的石化生产基地，使SAF能够在中国大规模生产，为航空行业的温室气体减排和中国碳中和的目标做出贡献。”。
"Not only do we believe this is the right thing to do for society, but we are eager to play our part as the global community progresses towards a carbon neutral and more sustainable future.
“我们不仅相信这是对社会的正确做法，而且我们渴望在全球社会朝着碳中和的和更可持续的未来迈进的过程中发挥我们的作用。
The achievements it has made have promoted global sustainable development and provided Chinese wisdom and solutions to developing countries," Andrew Lee, CFO of TÜV SÜD North Asia, said during this year's CIIE on Nov 6, adding 2021 is the launch year for China's 14th Five-Year Plan, a key year for the construction of the country's new dual-circulation development pattern and the promotion of "carbon peak" and "carbon neutral" goals.
TÜV南德意志集团北亚区首席财务官Andrew Lee在11月6日举行的今年的进博会上表示：“它所取得的成就促进了全球可持续发展，并为发展中国家提供了中国智慧和解决方案“碳达峰”和“碳中和的”目标。
Driven by its 2030 Carbon Neutral Roadmap and technological innovation, Chindata Group will proactively explore opportunities for the development of zero-carbon data centers, the adoption of white-box model equipment manufacturing and the transformation of data centers as the foundation of the digital economy," said Alex Ju, founder and CEO of Chindata Group.
In December 2020, Chindata Group became the first company in China's internet industry to launch a 2030 Carbon Neutral Roadmap, which mandated that all of its next-generation hyperscale data centers in China will use a 100 percent renewable energy solution by 2030.
In the meantime, the company is committed to investing in clean energy generation with an installed capacity of no less than 2 gigawatts by 2030, in a bid to help China meet the 2060 carbon neutral pledge.
Honeywell has set a target of becoming carbon neutral in its operations and facilities by 2035.
- Chinese apparel brand HOdo said it has produced and exported the country's first batch of clothing certified as carbon neutral, contributing to the creation of a sustainable clothing ecosystem.
Starting in 2020, Baidu is eyeing six different operational aspects to fulfil carbon neutral targets, including data centers, office buildings, carbon offsets, intelligent transportation, AI cloud and supply chains.
After 2030, Baidu will collaborate with its ecological partners to work towards becoming carbon negative, joining hands to further China's pledge to become carbon neutral by 2060 and to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Through the internal platform of the company, the company also shares information about "carbon peak, carbon neutral" and "green circular economy" with employees and partners, and encourages employees and partners to join environmental volunteer groups to advocate a green life.
Given the backdrop of China's nationwide participation in building ecological civilization, the executive said the company's Wuhan Brewery is committed to becoming AB InBev's first carbon neutral brewery across the world, in 2021.
This is China's first carbon neutral EV charging offer and is based on international and national standards for carbon neutrality.
With our diversified business activities here, we plan to continue to provide more carbon neutral products and services to China's retail customers, industrial partners and cities, in support of a lower carbon energy future, Yang said.
The attempt comes against the backdrop that China announced its ambition to peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and to become carbon neutral by 2060.
"We are excited to help our growing number of bp-xiaoju customers across China with this first carbon neutral charging offer.
We'll continue to work with BP, industrial shareholders and local communities to provide more innovative carbon neutral initiatives and fulfill our own sustainability commitment, she said.
Baogang Group, the largest iron and steel manufacturer in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, issued a green bond focusing on carbon neutral projects on the Shanghai Stock Exchange recently, the first of its kind in the region's steel industry.
With China setting a goal of being carbon neutral by 2060, Chinese oil companies are accelerating their strategic repositioning toward low-carbon business, said Tang Sisi, an analyst at research firm BloombergNEF.
Lee Chee Kong, president of Carlsberg China, said: "China has set the goal of reaching peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and becoming carbon neutral by 2060.
Its headquarters in Nordborg, Denmark will be carbon dioxide neutral in 2022, and in 2024 and reused excess heat from Danfoss data centers will provide 25 percent of the overall heat supply for the 250,000 square meters of the headquarters' factories and offices.
According to Henry Ling, vice-president of operations, Dow Asia-Pacific, the new hub will adopt and employ advanced digital, intelligence and automation technologies to create a manufacturing space of world-class safety, productivity, reliability and sustainability performance"The South China Specialties Hub will be built to Dow's world-class environmental, health and safety standards and aligned to Dow's recent commitment to become net carbon neutral by 2050," he said.
With China aiming to achieve carbon neutral by 2060 and further improve the production efficiency in its manufacturing sector, ABB Group, the Swiss industrial conglomerate, plans to seize more market share as the country demand for smart urban infrastructure and digital electrical solutions will continue to rise during its 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) period.
British premium marque Jaguar will be producing pure electric models only four years from now, as part of Jaguar Land Rover's electrification plans to become carbon neutral by 2039, said its CEO Thierry Bollore on Monday.
Schott, a producer of specialty glass and supplier of pharma packaging to Novo Nordisk, has committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2030.
As a result, investment bank JPMorgan raised the rating of Corning to overweight from neutral in the New York Stock Exchange, citing "increasing visibility in demand improvement and earnings recovery".
"From a business perspective, Shen said the incident might propel companies expanding overseas to find a truly neutral third-party as an avenue for registration.
Apple Inc is setting an ambitious goal of becoming carbon neutral across its entire business, manufacturing supply chain and product life cycle by 2030.
The company is already carbon neutral today for its global corporate operations, and this new commitment means that by 2030, every Apple device sold will have net zero climate impact, the company said in a statement.
However, we are working hard to change it for the better as we commit to becoming carbon neutral by 2050.
When it comes to the possibility of cooperating with Chinese tech companies, Brown said that they hold a neutral stance so they can "work with many of them in China".
Bank of America Merrill Lynch on Monday downgraded Boeing's stock to "neutral" from "buy" and cut its price target to $420 a share from $480 after the crash of two MAX jets six months apart.
This new location will be BP's first retail site in China offering fast charging for electric vehicles and participating in BP's Target Neutral program to deliver a carbon-neutral operation.
Naturally, sustainability is central to our company's overall strategy, as we aim to become carbon neutral by 2050.
"According to Galjee, the company's current energy portfolio currently comprises 40 percent renewable energy, while by 2050 it aims to be completely carbon neutral.
Under the government's agenda, China's carbon dioxide emissions will peak, stabilize and then decline by 2030, and the country will be carbon neutral and will have a fully established green, low-carbon and circular economy by 2060.
China's official manufacturing and nonmanufacturing PMI indexes and their components have all rebounded above the 50 neutral mark, indicating rising expectations, said Moody's Analytics, a subsidiary of Moody's Corp, in a commentary on Monday.
Joong Shik Kang, deputy mission chief for China at the International Monetary Fund's Asia and Pacific Department, said further monetary accommodation and neutral fiscal policy are necessary for China, and such policies can help protect the nation's consumption-led recovery from the risks of slowing global growth and real estate weakness.
At the same time, the government's effort in pushing for the 'carbon neutral' footprint and the Chinese companies' awareness of environmental control has increased the demand for electric trucks, especially new energy, which is one of the core competencies of the KION Group," said Lean.
In particular, the report noted that a neutral fiscal stance with spending shifted toward households would support the recovery, and additional monetary policy accommodation would help secure it.
This year it is advisable for China to retain a neutral fiscal policy, Kang said.
He hailed China's "ambitious targets" that have been laid out by the leadership to be carbon neutral.
Demographic trends like the aging population and shrinking labor force are adding downward pressure to China's neutral interest rate.
Liu Baokui, a researcher at the Institute of Spatial Planning and Regional Economy at the National Development and Reform Commission, noted that expanding the number of sectors open to private investment and implementing a "competition neutral" principle are two things China needs to work on to help boost economic growth.
During the event, participants engaged in discussions about carbon neutral transition, practices and policies in the two nations.
In terms of allocation among sectors, the investment bank has upgraded consumer services and healthcare equipment and services from neutral to overweight to capitalize on a potential rebound in consumer spending, while downgrading energy and tech hardware from neutral to underweight.
It also upgraded real estate from underweight to neutral as a series of supportive measures launched recently may help significantly tame the risks facing the sector.
Hu Yifan, regional chief investment officer and head of macroeconomics for Asia-Pacific at UBS Global Wealth Management, said the Swiss wealth manager remains neutral on China's stock market despite the country's improving growth prospects.
Hugo Jones, a research associate on China at the London School of Economics' foreign policy think tank LSE IDEAS, said it is crucial for China to use foreign investment to achieve its goal of becoming carbon neutral before 2060.
But in mid-May, investment bank JPMorgan upgraded its outlook on a slew of Chinese internet and tech companies including Alibaba Group, Tencent Holdings, NetEase Inc and Meituan to overweight, and that on JD, Bilibili and several other Chinese companies from underweight to neutral.
Overweight, underweight and neutral are performance indicators used by analysts to rate the stocks' foreseeable future.
JPMorgan's mid-May stance was in sharp contrast to its March view when the brokerage downgraded 28 Chinese internet stocks to neutral or underweight.
Investment performance is neutral.
It should take concrete actions to strengthen the development and prosperity of the regional economy in an objective and neutral manner.
China has committed itself to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and becoming carbon neutral by 2060.
Meanwhile, China has committed itself to peaking its carbon emissions before 2030 and becoming carbon neutral by 2060.
We are also deeply committed to contributing to China by ensuring all of our stores are carbon neutral in line with the nation's climate ambitions, and by empowering communities to thrive through various cultural programs," Zhang said.
"Eventually as domestic demand begins to slow and the global recovery continues, we expect trade to become more of a neutral force on headline growth next year," they said.
The leverage issue, in my opinion, should be a neutral word, rather than something we always consider to be harmful to the sound development of the economy.
The latest moves of PBOC signaled some moderate easing amid economic downward pressure after the central bank maintained a neutral monetary policy stance throughout much of the year of 2021, said economists.
The firm also forecast that China's monetary policy will remain neutral, based on the tone set by the central authorities for cross-cyclical adjustments of macro policies.
China's macroeconomic policies will become neutral or ease marginally in 2022 as the country has shifted the main focus of its policies toward stabilization of growth amid recently increased risks of an economic downturn, said Ding Shuang, chief economist for Greater China and North Asia at Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd. "Slight structural policy adjustments have been made in face of the risk of an economic downturn.
"The fiscal policy, which has been significantly contractionary this year, should temporarily shift to a neutral stance and focus on strengthening social protections and promoting green investment over traditional infrastructure spending," the IMF said.
As for the fourth quarter, Xu said 78 percent of companies gave market demand a neutral or above expectations rating.
Some 83 percent of private companies hold neutral or above expectations for domestic investment, and 65 percent of companies have the same expectations for the import and export businesses.
This year's summit had the slogan "New Carbon Neutral Industries with a New Ecology for Science and Technology.
A reading of 50 is considered neutral, with optimism and pessimism respectively reflected in scores above or below 50.
Economic growth in the Greater Bay Area slowed due to the resurgence of the pandemic, but the decline was mild compared with the overall decline on the Chinese mainland, with six of the eight business index components and subcomponents remaining above the neutral line of 50, Lau said.
The monetary policy stance, meanwhile, has been shifted from tightening to neutral, Zhu said.
Policy has normalized from a loose stance earlier, and remains largely neutral for now," Temasek said in the annual review.
Commenting on the plan, experts said the new plan is of great significance as it will promote resource conservation and recycling in China, help ensure national resource security and aid China in honoring its pledge to peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and become carbon neutral by 2060.
"According to the meeting's statement, it is expected that the monetary policy stance will remain stable and neutral, and it is difficult to see additional easing in the following months," said Ming Ming, a senior researcher at CITIC Securities.
In recent months, the policy mix has been reflected in tight to neutral financial conditions, said Shaun Roache, Asia-Pacific chief economist with S&P Global.
"As China's recovery consolidates, macroeconomic policies are expected to shift from accommodative to more neutral settings," according to Martin Raiser, World Bank Country Director for China.
Chinese monetary authorities have been aware of the global inflationary pressure, but the domestic monetary policy will remain stable with a neutral stance in the second half of this year, which means neither monetary easing nor tightening is likely, said Ming Ming, a senior analyst with CITIC Securities.
"According to Wang, China's continued efforts to meet the carbon peak and carbon neutral goals will further promote the rapid development of the low-carbon economy and technologies, inject new impetus into the economy and enhance the competitiveness of China's related industries and technologies.
The gauge of business confidence of companies operating in GBA hit 53 in Q1, above the 50 neutral benchmark and 50.2 in Q4 2020, according to quarterly surveys carried out by the Standard Chartered and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.
China is expected to maintain a neutral monetary policy in the second quarter, as stronger investment will lead to a solid economic recovery, while there should be additional risk-control efforts, economists said on Monday.
They expected China's fiscal policy to remain "broadly neutral" while monetary policy remains "supportive" in 2021, though less so than in 2020.
The major interest rates have remained basically unchanged this year, a signal that the PBOC is maintaining a neutral stance for monetary policy, neither loose nor tight, said analysts.
Yet, the impact of COVID-19 resurgences on China's industrial production may be largely neutral, according to a research note from Huatai Securities, with the decision of many migrant workers to stay put during the Spring Festival likely resulting in an earlier-than-usual resumption schedule after the holiday this year.
"We will suggest the government continue to remain prudent and maintain a neutral fiscal and monetary policy for next year's situation. "
"She said a recent announcement by President Xi Jinping that China would reach a peak in carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and be carbon neutral by 2060 is also welcomed by New Zealand.
Looking forward, economists believe that China's economic recovery will continue in the fourth quarter and the country's monetary policy will likely remain neutral as policymakers have shown increased focus on maintaining financial stability and preventing financial risks.
By 2030, China's carbon dioxide emissions will peak, stabilize and then decline, and by 2060, China will be carbon neutral and will have a fully established green, low-carbon and circular economy.
"In fact, the company has set a goal to be CO2 neutral by 2030, and is currently using only green energy.
He hailed China's "ambitious targets" that have been laid out by the leadership to be carbon neutral, saying that China is taking a leading role, and "we really commend China for that direction. "
"Though the carbon reduction projects may incur higher operational, R&D and capital expenditures, most major Chinese steel mills have set their carbon reduction timelines and carbon neutral targets.
Therefore, Colliers International maintains a neutral market judgment, but still remains cautiously optimistic about the medium and long term market development," said Yan Quhai, Managing Director of Colliers in North China.
Luo, at the Sinopec institute, said as the country continues to ramp up its green energy transition with the aim of becoming carbon neutral by 2060, foreign investment in China's energy sector is only expected to rise.