By Alibaba/Alipay
Alibaba holds the Chinese most used mobile payment Application Alipay and wanted to transform this giant user base into real carbon emission reduction. Alibaba created Ant Forest, an interface tracks purchases made through Alipay to award eco-friendly purchase by “green energy points” in the Ant Forest Program. After the green energy supplies reached 17.9KG, the virtual tree will turn into a real Haloxylon tree in the desert of Alashan desert of Inner Mongolia.