Ant Forest: Starting from Environmental Protection

Meng Rui, Qiong Zhu

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摘要

This case expounds on the operating model and achievements of Ant Forest. Ant Forest not only heralded a new model for protecting the environment but also generated unique business value for payments app Alipay and its parent company Ant Financial. Ant Forest is a classic example of how a business can create economic value by delivering social value. In just over three years of operations, Ant Forest chalked up two distinctive achievements: First, it functioned as a green initiative and public benefit platform accessible to any individual, company, public welfare organization, and public benefit corporation (PBC). It offered tangible incentives (planting new trees) to reward low-carbon lifestyles, creating a mutual incentive closed-loop system. Second, it encouraged users to use Alipay by rewarding them with green energy points. Therefore, it delivered a social networking function, a historic key competitive weakness of Alipay, helping to boost the app's usage frequency and user stickiness. It also enabled the creation of personal carbon accounts, a key step in the implementation of Ant Financial's green finance strategy. However, Ant Forest still relied primarily on investments from Ant Financial to survive until early 2020. Zu Wang, Ant Forest's product manager, was keen to overcome this dependence. So, how could Ant Forest become a self-sufficient entity, and how could it build a sustainable environmental protection platform?
源语言英语
页数13
出版状态已出版 - 30 4月 2021

案例编号

ESR-21-767

案例规范编号

ESR-21-767-CE

案例类型

Field Case

更新日期

15/05/2023

附注

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来源

China Europe International Business School

案例学科表

  • 社会企业
  • 战略
  • 伦理与社会责任

案例行业表

  • 农、林、牧、渔业
  • 公用事业
  • 社会组织

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