Company/Organization Profile

Yili Group holds a leading position in the global dairy industry, ranking first among Asian dairy companies for thirteen consecutive years. It is also the largest dairy enterprise in China with the most extensive product portfolio. With superior product quality, outstanding integrated service capabilities, and robust sustainability performance, Yili has long earned the trust and recognition of major global events, sporting tournaments, governments at all levels, and the wider public. From the 2008 Beijing Olympics to the 2019 Wuhan Military World Games, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games; from the 2010 Shanghai World Expo to the 2016 Hangzhou G20 Summit, Yili has been the exclusive dairy supplier on multiple occasions. The company is also a partner of premier conferences such as the Boao Forum for Asia and the World Artificial Intelligence Conference.

机构简介

伊利集团稳居全球乳业第一阵营，连续十三年蝉联亚洲乳业第一，也是中国规模最大、产品品类最全的乳制品企业。最优的产品品质、领先的综合服务能力和全面的可持续发展能力，让伊利一直深受全球顶级盛会、赛事以及各级政府和社会各界的信赖与认可。从2008年北京奥运会到2019武汉军运会、2022年北京冬奥会、2023年杭州亚运会，从2010年上海世博会到2016年杭州G20峰会，伊利作为唯一一家提供服务的乳制品企业频频亮相。同时伊利也是博鳌亚洲论坛、世界人工智能大会等顶级峰会的合作伙伴。

Project Overview

The dairy industry is inherently complex, spanning primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors. Carbon emissions are generated at every stage—from forage cultivation and dairy farming to product processing and final sales. Achieving carbon neutrality across the full industry chain and the entire product lifecycle therefore presents a formidable challenge for the sector as a whole.

As an industry leader, Yili has consistently translated its in-house expertise into sector-wide capabilities. The company has developed a "dual footprint" carbon reduction approach that integrates carbon footprint and water footprint management. It has also established the "Zero Carbon Alliance," which brings together 179 members, and the "Global Low Water Footprint Initiative (LWFi)" with 127 members, committing to achieve full-industry-chain carbon neutrality by 2050.

项目背景

乳企所处的行业非常复杂，横跨一二三产业，从饲草种植、奶牛养殖、产品加工到终端销售等各个环节都会涉及碳排放，要想实现全产业链、全生命周期的碳中和，对整个行业来说挑战巨大。

作为行业龙头企业，伊利持续将企业经验外溢为行业能力，探索出了“碳足迹+水足迹”的“双足迹”减碳方案，组建了拥有179家成员的“零碳联盟”和127家成员的“全球低水足迹倡议联盟（LWFi）”，致力于在2050年前实现全产业链碳中和。

Project Implementation

Yili actively pursues green development through full-life-cycle initiatives that span the entire value chain—from forage and dairy farming to the final product. Through sustainable sourcing, green manufacturing, the use of eco-friendly packaging materials, and water footprint management, the company is building a green ecosystem across the full chain and contributing its solutions to China's "carbon peaking and carbon neutrality" goals.

(I) Raw Material Sourcing – Enabling Upstream Carbon Reduction

Emissions from pasture operations represent a critical front in Yili's efforts to reduce carbon across its entire industry chain. As a champion of green development in the dairy sector, Yili has systematically rolled out eight core emission-reduction measures on pastures, focusing on three strategic pillars: biogenic carbon reduction, fossil carbon reduction, and agricultural and forestry carbon sequestration.

At the same time, the company is deepening its integrated crop-livestock farming model, which uses livestock to support crop cultivation and crops to improve livestock production. This approach fosters synergy, circularity, and a low-carbon agricultural system, accelerating the transition of pasture operations toward greener, lower-carbon models.

Yili fully leverages its role as a "chain champion" to work with supply chain partners on collective carbon reduction efforts. It actively encourages suppliers to conduct carbon inventories and, through incentive schemes and capacity-building programs, has continued to expand the "Zero Carbon Alliance" ecosystem, enhancing suppliers' motivation and competence in carbon management. The "Zero Carbon Alliance" now includes 179 suppliers, and has helped 165 raw and auxiliary material suppliers embark on low-carbon transitions, contributing to a greener industrial ecosystem across the sector.

Yili is committed to building a responsible supply chain, with particular focus on advancing the responsible sourcing of sustainable raw materials such as palm oil. The company has signed the "Strategic Agreement on Sustainable Palm Oil Procurement" with three world-class international suppliers: Yihai Kerry, Bunge, and Cargill. Yili also engages in sustainable soybean sourcing, primarily for its "Plant Selected" line of plant-based milk products.

The company requires that 100% of its cooperating soybean suppliers sign a no-deforestation risk commitment letter and strictly comply with relevant laws and regulations, including the "Forest Law of the People's Republic of China," to prohibit deforestation.

(II) Production – Advancing Green Manufacturing

Yili has consistently pursued low-carbon operations by embedding green development principles throughout its production and operational processes. The company has made sustained efforts across multiple fronts—optimizing energy mix, implementing energy-saving and emission-reduction projects, and building green carbon-neutral factories—to lower carbon emissions from production activities and promote efficient, low-carbon, and green manufacturing.

In 2025, Yili released the "Yili Group Three-Year Energy Efficiency Improvement Plan (2025-2027)" and issued the "Carbon Neutrality Energy-Saving and Emission-Reduction Technology Promotion Plan" for the year. The plans outline six priority areas, including energy-saving and carbon-reduction actions for energy-using products and equipment, as well as upgrades to improve energy efficiency. Across major energy-consuming processes and equipment in all business divisions, the company has actively deployed technologies such as waste heat and pressure recovery, and renewable energy utilization, to accelerate energy conservation and carbon reduction.

By the end of 2025, a cumulative total of 45 Yili subsidiaries/branches had received national-level "Green Factory" certification, and 5 factories had obtained "Zero-Carbon Factory" certification.

(III) Transportation – Building a Green Logistics System

Yili adheres to a "green and lean" logistics philosophy and has systematically redefined the carbon reduction pathway for dairy logistics through four key initiatives: green warehousing, national delivery cycle optimization, intelligent logistics network allocation, and a supply chain resource collaboration platform. From energy-efficient cold storage retrofits to intelligent order aggregation, from precise capacity matching to shared backhaul cargo transport, Yili integrates decentralized warehousing resources, transport capacity, and order information into a unified intelligent dispatch system, steadily reducing unnecessary mileage and empty-load rates. This not only improves logistics efficiency, but also delivers a quantifiable, replicable green transportation solution that covers the full logistics chain.

(IV) Consumer End – Promoting Green Consumption

Yili has been rolling out a diverse range of green and low-carbon products to meet consumer demand for sustainable lifestyles. The company has introduced 7 zero-carbon products, achieving up to 40% reduction in the carbon footprint of individual products through technologies such as eco-friendly packaging and low-carbon feed.

In Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, Yili has dedicated itself to the "Save the Endangered Asian Elephants" conservation initiative for five consecutive years, building a 430-mu "Elephant Canteen" to provide ample food and habitat for wild Asian elephants. In Bayannur—a region plagued by aridity, water scarcity, and abundant saline-alkali land—Yili's professional team has developed a tailored solution by implementing an integrated cultivation and farming plan for sweet sorghum on saline-alkali soils. Since its launch in 2023, 5,170 mu of saline-alkali land have been effectively improved, yielding over 22,000 tons of high-quality silage. This has created a win-win pathway that combines ecological restoration with increased agricultural income.

(V) Strengthening Carbon Management and Building a Digital Carbon Management Platform

In 2024, Yili launched the China Dairy Carbon Management Operation Platform, the first comprehensive carbon management platform in China's dairy industry. The platform is designed to build and refine a carbon emission database and emission factor database specific to the dairy sector, enabling precise calculation and monitoring of carbon footprints across product lifecycles and providing a scientific basis and technical support for carbon management in the industry. In June 2025, the platform officially went live. In 2026, it was upgraded to become China's first "Dairy Carbon-Water Management Operation Platform," pioneering the integrated digital management of carbon and water in the sector. By the end of 2025, the platform covered 100% of Yili's factories and 10 supply chain enterprises, enabling online carbon footprint accounting for 97 product lines. The platform received a Conformity Assessment Statement from SGS, the globally recognized certification body, in 2025, confirming that its greenhouse gas emission accounting at both the organizational and product levels meets international standards for professionalism, reliability, and scientific rigor.

(VI) Water Resource Management

During the UN 2023 Water Conference, Yili's Low Water Footprint Initiative (LWFi) action plan was officially approved by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and published on the UN website, making Yili the first Chinese company to commit to and be approved for participation in the UN Water Action Agenda. Yili works with its suppliers on water resource management to reduce the water footprint across its supply chain. By 2025, the company had implemented two supply-chain water conservation projects. For raw and auxiliary material suppliers, the company established the "Global Low Water Footprint Initiative (LWFi) Alliance" in 2023 to promote water footprint management and water-saving practices among raw material suppliers and partners. For raw milk suppliers, the company has launched a pasture water conservation support program to help pastures reduce daily water consumption through the promotion of water-saving technologies and water reuse measures.

项目实施

伊利积极践行绿色发展理念，从一棵草、一头牛到一杯奶，实施全生命周期绿色行动，通过开展可持续采购、推动绿色生产、全面使用环保包材、开展水足迹管理等方式推动全链条的绿色生态构建，为实现“双碳”目标贡献伊利方案。

（一）原料端——促进上游减碳

牧场端碳排放是伊利全产业链碳减排的关键攻坚领域。作为乳制品行业绿色发展的践行者，伊利以生物碳减排、化石碳减排、农林碳汇为三大核心方向，系统推进牧场八大核心减排举措落地；同时，深化以养带种、以种促养的“种养一体化”生态农业模式，构建种养协同、循环共生的低碳农业体系，加速牧场向绿色低碳模式转型。

伊利充分发挥“链主”企业的引领作用，携手供应链伙伴共同推进减碳行动，积极推动供应商开展碳盘查，并通过激励机制和赋能培训，持续扩大“零碳联盟”生态圈，全面提升供应商碳管理的积极性与能力水平。“零碳联盟”规模已达179家供应商，累计推动165家原辅料供应商实现低碳转型，为行业营造绿色低碳产业生态。

伊利致力于打造负责任供应链，特别是在棕榈油等关键原料上持续推进可持续原材料责任采购。伊利与益海嘉里、邦吉、嘉吉三大世界级的国际供应商签署了《可持续棕榈油采购战略协议》。伊利还开展可持续大豆采购，伊利所采购的大豆主要用于“植选”系列植物奶产品，在采购过程中要求所有合作的大豆供应商100%签署无毁林风险承诺函，严格遵守《中华人民共和国森林法》等相关法规，杜绝砍伐森林。

（二）生产端——发展绿色制造

伊利始终践行绿色低碳运营，将绿色发展理念融入生产运营全过程，从优化能源结构、实施节能减排项目、打造绿色碳中和工厂等方面持续发力，减少生产运营环节的碳排放，推动高效、低碳、绿色生产。

2025年，伊利发布了《伊利集团三年“能效”提升计划》（2025-2027年），于年初发布2025年度《碳中和节能减排技术推广方案》，明确了用能产品设备节能减碳行动、推进节能提效改造升级等六大重点任务，并在各事业部主要用能环节和设备，积极采用余热余压利用、可再生能源利用等节能提效技术，加速节能降碳。

截至2025年末，伊利累计45家分/子公司获得国家级“绿色工厂”认证，5家工厂获得“零碳工厂”认证。

（三）运输端——打造绿色物流

伊利坚持“绿色、精益”物流理念，以绿色仓储建设、全国发运周期优化、物流网络智能调拨、供应链资源协同平台为四大抓手，系统重构乳业物流减碳路径。从节能冷库改造到订单智能归集，从运力精准匹配到返程带货共享，伊利将分散的仓储资源、运力资源与订单信息纳入一体化智能调度体系，持续压缩无效运距与空驶率。这不仅是物流效率的提升，更是一套覆盖全链路、可量化、可复制的乳业绿色运输解决方案。

（四）消费者端——引导绿色消费

伊利面向消费端持续推出多元化绿色低碳产品，满足消费者对可持续生活方式的需求。伊利已落地7款零碳产品，通过环保包装、低碳饲料等技术应用，单款产品碳足迹最高减少40%。

在云南西双版纳，伊利连续五年投身“拯救濒危亚洲象”保护行动，建设430亩“大象食堂”，为野生亚洲象提供充足食物与栖息环境。在干旱缺水、不缺盐碱地的巴彦淖尔，伊利专业团队因地制宜，制定了盐碱地甜高粱种养一体化方案。自2023年落地以来，5170亩盐碱地得到有效改良，产出2.2万余吨优质青贮饲料，走出了一条“生态修复+产业增收”的双赢之路。

（五）健全碳排放管理，建设数字化碳管理平台

伊利于2024年发布了中国乳业首个综合性碳管理运营平台——中国乳业碳管理运营平台。该平台旨在建立和完善中国乳业自身的碳排放数据库与碳排放因子库，实现精准计算和监测乳企产品生命周期中的碳足迹，为乳制品行业的碳排放管理提供科学依据和技术支持。2025年6月，中国乳业碳管理运营平台正式上线投入使用，于2026年正式升级为中国首个“乳业碳水管理运营平台”，开创乳业碳、水协同数字化管理先河。截至2025年底，平台已覆盖100%伊利工厂及10家供应链企业，实现97款产品碳足迹的在线核算。平台已于2025年获得全球权威认证服务机构瑞士通用公证行SGS符合性评估声明，标志着该平台在企业组织层面与产品层面对温室气体排放核算的专业性、可靠性、科学性达到国际标准。

（六）水资源管理

2023年联合国水事大会期间，伊利的低水足迹倡议“LWFi（Low Water Footprint Initiative）”行动计划，正式获得联合国经济及社会理事会批准并在官网公开发布，成为承诺和获批加入联合国《水行动议程》（UN Water Action Agenda）的首家中国企业。伊利联动供应商开展水资源管理工作，降低供应链水足迹。截至2025年，公司已实施两项供应链节水项目。针对原辅料供应商，公司于2023年成立“全球低水足迹倡议（LWFi）联盟”，旨在推动原材料供应商及合作伙伴开展水足迹管理与节水行动。针对原奶供应商，公司推出了牧场节水支持项目，通过推广应用节水技术和水回用举措，协助牧场减少日常运营的水耗。

Project Outcome

1. Yili Builds the Dairy Industry's First "Zero-Carbon" Pasture

Yili's subsidiary, Youran Dairy, has proactively adopted clean energy solutions at its "Pingdingshan Pasture." Using its proprietary fully mixed biogas anaerobic fermentation technology and an innovative "mesophilic-thermophilic anaerobic fermentation with dual-path gas production" process, the pasture has achieved harmless treatment of manure while significantly increasing biogas yield, which is then used for power generation and heating.

In addition, Pingdingshan Pasture has reduced greenhouse gas emissions through the use of low-carbon feed and the introduction of electric milk transport vehicles, loaders, and feed-pushing robots. It has become the industry's first pasture to achieve "carbon neutrality" in dairy farming, receiving a carbon neutrality certification from China Testing & Certification International Group Co., Ltd. (CTC), and setting a benchmark for the sector's low-carbon transition.

2. Launching China's First Full-Life-Cycle Carbon-Reduced Organic Milk

As China's first full-life-cycle carbon-reduced organic milk, this product uses milk sourced from carbon-reduced pastures, features wood-pulp-colored packaging that retains a natural look, reduces ink usage in packaging printing, and uses kraft paper for outer cartons—together cutting the carbon footprint by 15% to 18%.

The product has been certified with a Full-Life-Cycle Carbon Reduction Certificate, the China-EU Organic Dual Certification, and the Ecological Origin Product certification, ensuring full-life-cycle carbon reduction, organic integrity, and traceability. It won the "2025 World Dairy Innovation Award – Best Corporate Social Responsibility/Sustainability Initiative" at the 18th Global Dairy Congress.

成果亮点

1.伊利打造了中国乳业首座“零碳”牧场

伊利旗下优然牧业的“平顶山牧场”积极布局清洁能源，利用自主研发的全混式沼气厌氧发酵技术，创新应用“双路径产气下的中高温厌氧发酵”工艺，在实现粪污无害化处理的同时大幅提升沼气量，并将沼气用于发电、供热。此外，平顶山牧场通过应用低碳饲料，引入电动运奶车、装载机、推料机器人等新能源装备，有效降低温室气体排放，率先在行业实现了奶牛养殖“碳中和”，并获得由中国国检测试控股集团股份有限公司颁发的碳中和认证证书，为行业的低碳转型树立了标杆。

2.打造中国首款全程减碳有机奶

作为中国首款全程减碳有机奶，采用来自减碳牧场的奶源，保留纸浆原木色的如木包装，并减少包装印刷的油墨使用和在外箱使用牛皮纸包装，实现碳足迹降低15%-18%。产品获全生命周期减碳证书、中欧有机双认证、生态原产地评定，全程减碳、有机可追溯。该产品在第十八届全球乳业大会荣获“2025年世界乳品创新大奖-最佳企业社会责任/可持续发展倡议”奖。

Project Highlights

As a "chain champion," Yili has pioneered a "dual footprint" full-chain carbon reduction model that combines carbon footprint and water footprint management. The company has brought together 179 members in the "Zero Carbon Alliance" and 127 members in the "Global Low Water Footprint Initiative (LWFi)." To strengthen carbon management, Yili launched the China Dairy Carbon Management Operation Platform in 2024, the first of its kind in the industry, and upgraded it in 2026 to become China's first "Dairy Carbon-Water Management Operation Platform," setting a new standard for integrated digital carbon and water management in the sector. To date, Yili has built 5 "Zero-Carbon Factories," launched 7 "Zero-Carbon Products," contributed to 1 international standard and 15 national standards, and had 45 factories receive national-level "Green Factory" certification.

Yili Group's carbon reduction practices have been featured in the UN Global Compact's "Enterprise Carbon Neutrality Roadmap," the UNDP's "Towards Zero Carbon: Sustainable Development Actions of Enterprises in China," and the China Center for International Knowledge on Development's "China's Progress Report on the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2025)" (Country Report). The company was also recognized as an outstanding case in the Ministry of Ecology and Environment's 2025 Corporate ESG Case Collection, and named among the "Listed Companies' ESG Best Practice Cases" by the China Association for Public Companies.

成果影响力

作为“链主”企业，伊利探索出了“碳足迹+水足迹”的双足迹全链减碳模式，组建了包括179家成员的“零碳联盟”和127家成员“全球低水足迹倡议联盟（LWFi）”。为健全碳排放管理，伊利2024年发布了中国乳业首个综合性碳管理运营平台——中国乳业碳管理运营平台，于2026年正式升级为中国首个“乳业碳水管理运营平台”，开创乳业碳、水协同数字化管理先河。截至目前，伊利打造了5家“零碳工厂”、推出了7款“零碳产品”、参与发布了1项国际标准、15项国家标准，45家工厂获得了国家级“绿色工厂”称号。

伊利集团的减碳实践连续入选联合国全球契约《企业碳中和路径图》、联合国开发计划署《走向零碳在华企业可持续发展行动》、中国国际发展知识中心《中国落实2030年可持续发展议程进展报告（2025）》（国别报告），成为生态环境部2025年企业ESG案例优秀案例，获评中国上市公司协会“上市公司ESG最佳实践案例”。

Reviews & Honors

Yili has maintained an "AA" MSCI ESG Rating and was included in the China Association for Public Companies' "2025 Listed Companies' Sustainable Development Best Practice Cases." The company has also responded to the CDP questionnaire for six consecutive years, achieving a "B" rating across the "Climate Change," "Forests," and "Water Security" categories, and has ranked first in the dairy industry's Social Responsibility Development Index in the "Blue Book of Corporate Social Responsibility (2025)" published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences for eight consecutive years.

Sedex "2025 Supply Chain Awards – Change Driver Award" (the only dairy company to receive this honor); Sedex "2026 Supply Chain Awards – Supply Chain ESG Excellence Award" and "Environment – Green and Low-Carbon Contribution Award."

评价与荣誉

伊利的MSCI ESG评级连续保持“AA”级，并入选中国上市公司协会“2025年上市公司可持续发展最佳实践案例”。同时，伊利连续6年回复CDP问卷，在“气候变化”“森林”“水安全”领域均获得B级，并连续八年获得中国社会科学院发布的《企业社会责任蓝皮书（2025）》乳制品行业社会责任发展指数排名第一。

Sedex“2025供应链大奖——变革推动奖”（唯一获评乳制品企业）；Sedex“2026供应链大奖——供应链ESG卓越奖”和“环境-绿色低碳贡献奖”