Yesterday, Tencent released its Q4 and full-year financial report for2022.

The company's R&D investment exceeded 60 billion yuan for the year, and it plans to continue to increase its investment in technology research and development in the future.

Tencent hopes to create more user, commercial, and social value through technology and innovation.

Today, in the field of next-generation technology that is of global concern, Tencent has launched a special initiative called the "CarbonX Program" with partners from multiple sectors.

This is not about searching for "carbon", but rather searching for friends who can achieve carbon neutrality together.

This is the first large-scale funding program initiated by a technology company in the field of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) in China, with a funding scale in the billions of yuan.

The application link for the Tencent "CarbonX Program" is now available.

To briefly introduce, CCUS technology is an important means of reducing carbon emissions and achieving sustainable development. It is also one of the key technologies essential for achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality.

Tencent hopes to innovate through this model, introducing funds, technology, partners, and landing scenarios for CCUS, and working with more partners to use technological innovation to support carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, and address the global challenges brought by climate change to human society.

It is expected to land 5-10 cutting-edge technology pilots, accelerate 5-10 CCUS startups, incubate several sustainable tools or platforms, and ultimately achieve a reduction of millions of tons of emissions.

Explain what CCUS is.

Carbon neutrality is not just about simply reducing emissions or adopting new energy sources.

It requires a combination of various green, low-carbon technologies.

Among them, Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) plays a unique and irreplaceable role and significance.

For example, the significant role of CCUS in large-scale emissions reduction from fossil fuels has already been demonstrated. In industries such as steel and cement, CCUS is an indispensable technology for deep decarbonization.

This technology has enormous potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in industrial processes, ensuring energy security, achieving sustainable development, and is of great significance for China's comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.

Moreover, it can convert carbon dioxide into a valuable resource and even generate economic benefits in the future.

Since CCUS is so powerful, can't it be promoted more quickly?

The research team also wants to speed things up.

However, CCUS is not a single technology, it is a multi-technology industry with long processes, cross-disciplinary knowledge, and diverse routes, involving multiple disciplines such as chemistry, geology, energy, materials, and cross-innovation.

Many of these technologies are still in the research and experimental stage, and face a series of challenges to scale up from the laboratory to large-scale industrial applications, such as high risk, high cost, long construction periods, and lack of basic data.

Large enterprises also want to apply CCUS.

However, due to the large investment, high uncertainty of returns, and insufficient incentive mechanisms, existing incentives are not enough to fully stimulate the enthusiasm of enterprises. They hope to have a mature technology that can be directly used for scaling up replication.

On the one hand, there is technology, on the other hand, there is a thirst for technology landing, but there is a lack of an innovative model to promote it.

The " CarbonX Program" was born to address this issue.

Tencent's " CarbonX Program" aims to fill this gap.

Funded by Tencent, the program focuses on CCUS technology, helping these cutting-edge technologies land in industrial scenarios for the first time and create demonstration benchmark cases.

This is the first step out of the laboratory and is crucial for large-scale application.

At the same time, Tencent hopes to incubate startups with positive economic potential, helping to build basic capabilities for CCUS technology, such as databases, carbon sequestration benefit monitoring tools, and digital capabilities.

The aim is to help the next generation of technology to move out of the laboratory more quickly.

Tencent's partners are also deeply involved in the plan.

These include industrial partners such as Conch Group Co., China Resources Cement Holdings Limited, China Resources Power Holdings Co., Guangdong Energy Group Co., Ltd., HBIS Group Co., Ltd., NIO, Saudi Basic Industry Corporation (SABIC), Shenzhen Energy Corporation, and Vanke, as well as investment partners such as Matrix Partners China, NIO Capital, OGCI China Climate Investments, and Sequoia China, and ecological partners such as the CCUSA, Global CCS Institute, Guangdong Southern Carbon Capture and Storage Industry Center, and Impact Hub Shanghai.

They will open up their own capabilities and resources to jointly promote the sustainable development and innovation of CCUS technology.

In addition, Tencent has also gathered a panel of 17 top experts who have deep expertise in the CCUS field both domestically and internationally. They will provide valuable advice for project selection, execution, and implementation.

Turning carbon dioxide into stone was once a bold imagination of scientists.

Today, it is gradually becoming a reality.

Tencent and Iceland's carbon storage company Carbfix will collaborate to build the first demonstration project of carbon mineralization storage in China.

By converting carbon dioxide into a water-soluble solution and injecting it into basalt, the carbon dioxide will naturally mineralize and turn into underground rocks within a few years.

Currently, Tencent has completed the site selection work.

More experiments will be conducted in the near future to accumulate experience and help catalyze the large-scale application of cutting-edge technology.

We also hope to explore more sustainable development paths with our technology and innovation capabilities and more partners, so that more cutting-edge technologies can grow and develop from this ecosystem.

The detailed application guidelines are as follows:

昨天，腾讯发布了2022年第四季度和全年财报。

2022年腾讯的研发投入超600亿，未来将会持续加大科技研发。

希望通过科技与创新，创造更多用户、商业与社会价值。

今天，在全球关注的下一代技术领域，腾讯联合多方伙伴发起了一项特别行动——“碳寻计划”。

不是要寻“碳”。

而是寻找一起“碳中和”的朋友。

这是中国在碳捕集利用与封存（CCUS）领域首个由科技企业发起的大规模资助计划，资金规模在亿元人民币级别。

申报链接先放这里：腾讯“碳寻计划”申报启动 

简单介绍下，碳捕集利用与封存（CCUS）技术是减少碳排放、实现可持续发展的重要手段，也是支撑碳达峰碳中和目标实现不可或缺的关键技术之一。

腾讯希望通过这种模式创新，为CCUS引入资金、技术、伙伴、落地场景等资源，跟更多伙伴们一起用科技创新支撑碳达峰碳中和，应对气候变化给人类社会带来的全球性挑战。

期望能够落地5-10个前沿技术试点，加速5-10家CCUS初创企业，孵化数个可持续工具或平台，最终实现千万吨级的减排。

先解释下什么是CCUS。

碳中和，并不止简单地减少活动排放或者新能源。

而是用多种绿色低碳技术的组合出拳。

其中，二氧化碳捕集、利用与封存 (CCUS) 具有独特的、不可替代的作用和意义。

例如，在化石能源的低碳利用方面，CCUS的大规模减排作用已经被证实；在钢铁、水泥等工业领域，CCUS是不可或缺的深度脱碳技术。

这项技术，在降低工业流程温室气体排放方面有巨大的应用潜力，还能有效保障能源安全、实现可持续发展，对于中国经济社会发展全面绿色转型具有重要意义。

而且，它能将二氧化碳资源化，未来甚至能产生经济效益。

既然CCUS这么强，能不能快点推广起来？

科研团队也很想搞快点。

不过CCUS不是一个单一技术，它是一个长环节、跨领域、众路线的多技术产业，涉及到化工、地质、能源、材料等多种学科与交叉创新。

这些技术很多还在科研试验中，想从实验室走向大规模工业应用，面临风险大、成本高、建设周期长、基础数据缺失等一系列挑战。

大型企业也想要应用落地。

但由于投资大、收益不确定性高，现有激励机制不足以充分激发企业的积极性。他们更希望能有一项成熟的技术可以直接用来规模化复制。

一边有技术，一边渴望技术落地，就缺一个创新模式推进了。

“碳寻计划”，就此诞生了。

腾讯的“碳寻计划”，希望能填补这个空缺。

由腾讯出资，聚焦CCUS技术，帮助这些前沿技术第一次在工业场景中落地，打造示范标杆案例。

这是走出实验室的第一步，也是规模化应用至关重要的一步。

同时，腾讯还希望能孵化有正向经济潜能的初创企业，助力CCUS技术的基础能力建设，如数据库、固碳效益监测工具、数字化能力等。

希望能帮助下一代技术更快走出实验室。

腾讯的合作伙伴，也深度参与到计划中来。

包括产业合作伙伴海螺集团、华润水泥、华润电力、广东能源集团、河钢集团、蔚来、沙特基础⼯业公司（SABIC）、深圳能源、万科等不同领域的头部企业，也包括经纬创投、蔚来资本、OGCI China Climate Investments、红杉中国等投资合作伙伴，还有中国环境科学学会碳捕集利⽤与封存专委会（CCUSA）、Global CCS Institute、广东南方碳捕集与封存产业中心、Impact Hub Shanghai等生态合作伙伴。

他们会对应开放自身的能力和资源，一同助力CCUS技术的持续发展创新。

同时，腾讯还聚集了国内与国际在 CCUS 领域深耕的17位顶级专家咨询委员，他们将为项目的筛选、执行与落地提供宝贵建议。

除了资助孵化项目，腾讯也在持续探索和落地更多前沿技术。

把二氧化碳变成石头，原本是科学家们的一个大胆想象。

如今，它已逐渐成真。

腾讯和冰岛碳封存公司Carbfix合作，将在中国建设首个二氧化碳矿化封存示范项目。

通过将二氧化碳转化成水溶液，注入玄武岩中，通过自然矿化，二氧化碳在短短几年内会变成地下的石头。

现在腾讯已完成选址工作。

将在不久的将来开展更多试验，积攒经验，帮助催化前沿技术的规模化应用。

也希望，通过腾讯的技术和创新能力，和更多伙伴们，探索更多可持续发展的路径，让更多前沿技术从这个生态中生长出来，发展下去。

详细的申报细则如下：