Gu Shu: Always regard innovation as the key means to harness the momentum of green development.

How will AI · International Green Standards Coordination promote cross-border capital flows?

The Fourth Session of the 14th National People’s Congress recently approved the “Environmental and Ecological Law of the People’s Republic of China,” marking a new stage in China’s legal development for ecological and environmental protection.

On March 22, Gu Shu, Chairman of the Agricultural Bank of China, stated at the 2026 China Development High-Level Forum that green development involves many areas and requires cross-sector cooperation and joint efforts. For the Agricultural Bank of China, innovation has always been a key means to gather momentum for green development. The bank坚持创新驱动发展，不断加强自身绿色服务创新，通过完善集团协同创新体系，优化政策机制和业务流程，持续提升绿色金融服务的专业化水平。

Gu Shu gave an example: the open-source AI agent OpenClaw recently sparked a wave in the tech community. The Agricultural Bank of China quickly launched its version, “Lobster (ABC-Claw),” to help relationship managers automatically process green project data, cross-verify multi-dimensional information, and generate due diligence reports intelligently, making loan processing more convenient, efficient, and secure. Additionally, to address the difficulty in quantifying environmental benefits of green projects, the bank actively applies fintech innovations, creating credit enhancement methods such as forestry and marine carbon sinks to help enterprises activate “dormant” green assets and solve financing difficulties. For companies needing transformation, they explore ESG evaluations, linking the results to loan factors to incentivize proactive transformation through market-based means.

Considering the irreversible trend of green and low-carbon development, Gu Shu suggests fully leveraging international exchange platforms to strengthen policy dialogue and experience sharing, build consensus, and enhance mutual trust. More pragmatic cooperation should be promoted to achieve higher-quality green development. Specifically:

1. Strengthen coordination and alignment of green standards. Further leverage the leading role of international organizations to promote dialogue and coordination among the international community on green project identification, environmental benefit measurement, and information disclosure requirements, improving the comparability and compatibility of green standards across countries and laying a solid foundation for global green market connectivity.

2. Increase innovation in green finance. Global financial institutions should focus on the needs of green transformation, further enhance financial innovation and digital empowerment. Especially, make full use of AI and other technologies to improve green project identification, carbon footprint accounting, and risk management capabilities, continuously expand service channels and boundaries, and improve service quality and efficiency to better meet the financing needs of global green transformation.

3. Promote cross-border flow of green capital. Strengthen the connection of green investment and financing platforms, improve risk prevention and information sharing mechanisms, and enhance the convenience and safety of cross-border green capital flows. Particularly, support developing countries’ green transformation through joint financing, knowledge sharing, and capacity building.

China Bank Insurance News Reporter: Hu Yang

Editor of China Bank Insurance News: Du Xiangjie