Log in to the Sina Finance APP and search for [Disclosure] to view more rating levels. Special Topic: 2026 Sustainable Global Leaders Conference & The Second Green Industry and Sustainable Consumption Expo. The 2026 Sustainable Global Leaders Conference was held in Shanghai from October 20 to 22. At the "Path of Circularity: Resources, Buildings, and Future Cities" thematic forum on the 22nd, Chen Kai, Chairman of EY China and CEO of Greater China, delivered a video speech, sharing observations and reflections on "Bridging the Green Divide, Building Resilient Growth."
Chen Kai pointed out that the global green rules system is undergoing rapid restructuring, with new types of regulations such as the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), battery passports, and supply chain due diligence legislation continuously emerging, and green standards increasingly becoming the threshold for entry into international markets. ESG standards across different countries are incompatible with one another and capacities vary, forming a "green divide" — entities with capital and technology can easily meet the standards, while a large number of enterprises and economies are shut out by the rules, causing globalization to move toward fragmentation.
"Facing the green divide, we cannot rely on building walls, nor can we rely on waiting." Chen Kai believes that AI collaborative governance is a realistic path to bridging the global gap in green development capacity. The value of AI is not to replace people, but to transform complex rules into standardized processes, convert expert capabilities into inclusive tools, and turn high-cost compliance into affordable services. In other words, AI makes green governance more standardized, more inclusive, and lower in cost.
He further explained: standardization means that carbon accounting, information disclosure, and compliance review have a unified language; inclusiveness means that small and medium-sized enterprises can also afford and effectively use it; low cost means that the global compliance threshold truly decreases. "Only in this way will the green transition not become a privilege of a few enterprises, but rather a shared capability of the global industrial chain." Chen Kai emphasized that today, access to technology itself is no longer a differentiating advantage — the real gap lies in how to uphold judgment and a sense of mission, embed AI into real business processes, and solve real industry problems. AI-empowered green transition is not simply about stacking algorithm models, but about establishing a complete comprehensive governance logic, from AI-driven business quality and efficiency improvement to the enhancement of AI comprehensive governance capabilities.
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