Release of Carbon Management Specifications for the Lighting Industry: Green and Low-Carbon Becomes a Core Competitiveness

In 2025, the fourth working meeting of the group standard "Carbon Management Specifications for Lighting Enterprises" was successfully held, marking the gradual improvement of the carbon management system in the lighting industry and green and low-carbon development becoming the core competitiveness of enterprises. Driven by the global carbon neutrality goal, the lighting industry, as a major energy consumer, is facing increasingly strict carbon emission reduction requirements, and carbon management has changed from an "optional item" to a "mandatory item". The formulation of this standard aims to standardize the carbon accounting, carbon emission reduction, and carbon disclosure behaviors of lighting enterprises, providing technical guidance for enterprises to achieve low-carbon transformation.​
The standard clarifies the core requirements for carbon management of lighting enterprises, including carbon footprint accounting methods, carbon emission reduction target setting, low-carbon technology application, and carbon information disclosure. In terms of carbon footprint accounting, the standard covers the entire life cycle of lighting products from raw material procurement, production and manufacturing, transportation and storage to use and recycling, requiring enterprises to establish a complete carbon data collection and accounting system. In terms of carbon emission reduction targets, enterprises are encouraged to set phased carbon emission reduction targets, and achieve a 30% reduction in carbon emissions per unit product compared with 2020 by 2030. In terms of low-carbon technology application, it promotes renewable energy lighting technologies such as LEDs, solar energy, and wind energy, as well as energy-saving technologies such as intelligent dimming and waste heat recovery. In terms of carbon information disclosure, enterprises are required to regularly release carbon management reports and accept social supervision.​
At the industry level, the transformation towards green and low-carbon development has become a consensus. In 2025, the energy-saving indicators of lighting products continued to improve. The average luminous efficiency of LED products increased from 150lm/W in 2020 to more than 200lm/W, and the market share of solar lighting products exceeded 15%. Enterprises have increased investment in low-carbon technology R&D, and reduced carbon emissions by optimizing production processes, adopting environmentally friendly materials, and establishing green supply chains. At the policy level, many places have incorporated the low-carbon transformation of the lighting industry into local carbon neutrality implementation plans, providing subsidy support for low-carbon lighting products, and at the same time strengthening the elimination of high-energy-consuming lighting products. On the market side, green certification has become an important threshold for lighting products to enter government procurement and large-scale projects, and consumers' preference for low-carbon lighting products has also continued to increase. Experts said that with the implementation of carbon management specifications, the lighting industry will accelerate the formation of a complete system of "low-carbon technology R&D - green product production - carbon information disclosure", and green and low-carbon development will become the core advantage of enterprises in differentiated competition.