Samantha Zhu is Accenture’s Chairperson and Market Unit Lead for Greater China. She leads a team of more than 10,000 professionals that offer broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song to a wide variety of multinational and Chinese clients across industries.
Samantha joined Accenture in 1997 and became a managing director in 2009. She has been a member of Accenture Greater China Market Unit Council since 2010. During her 20+ years with Accenture, Samantha has taken various leadership roles in Accenture Greater China, including Client Group Lead of Communications, Media & Technology, Lead of Operations, Human Capital and Diversity Lead and the Corporate Citizenship Council Lead.
Samantha holds Bachelor of Arts from Shanghai Fudan University. She is currently based in Shanghai.
By collaborating on green power procurement and clean power development, policy-makers and businesses are aiming to decarbonize China's industrial sectors.
中国的工业碳排放预计将在2030年达到峰值。在碳达峰后，工业脱碳需要加速，到2060年将碳排放减少至2亿吨，以实现中国的碳中和目标。扩大场外绿色电力采购和发展场内清洁能源是实现中国工业部门脱碳的两个关键杠杆。政策和市场可协力探索深化绿色电力市场机制及扩大工业储能应用的方法。
Three business leaders explain why clean energy deployment along the value chain will play an important role in the decarbonization of China's industry.
实现全球能源转型和碳中和目标，离不开钢铁、水泥、铝等关键大宗材料的支持——而以这些为代表的工业行业占全球碳排放的30%；中国在上述许多行业占全球产能过半，致使其占据全球工业领域碳排放的40%——推动全产业链价值链的能源结构深度转型是脱碳关键；世界经济论坛“工业领域的清洁电力”倡议邀请3位来自工业行业产业链上下游的领导者，共话加速中国工业领域清洁电力和全产业链脱碳。
