Brand CITI Score Analysis

Responsiveness and Transparency

6
Total Score:6
Respond to Enquiries and Engage with Public
Brand appoints someone to follow up on green supply chain management in China, and the frequency of communication with stakeholders occurs more often than quarterly, OR Brand appoints someone to follow up on green supply chain management in China, and employs the automatic reporting form provided by the Blue EcoChain or equivalent systems to communicate with stakeholders about green supply chain management.
7
Total Score:8
Promote Supply Chain Transparency
Brand updates published list of its suppliers in China at least annually and the list includes higher environmental impact suppliers, publicly discloses supply chain environmental information in the form of a map, and pushes suppliers disclosed on the map to track their own environmental compliance performance via Blue EcoChain or other automated methods.

Compliance and Corrective Actions

8
Total Score:12
Push Suppliers to Take Corrective Actions
Brand publicly requires supplier environmental compliance in writing and commits to stakeholders that it will push suppliers to adopt corrective actions, and pushes problem suppliers to promptly issue public explanations regarding the reason for violation, corrective actions already undertaken or in progress, and current compliance status in a timely manner, and pushes suppliers with high environmental risks to verify the effectiveness of the corrective actions OR continuously disclose information on corrective actions.

Extend Green Supply Chain Practices

5
Total Score:6
Responsible management of chemicals
Brand pushes problem suppliers to promptly issue public explanations regarding the reason for violation, corrective actions already undertaken or in progress, current compliance status in a timely manner, verify the effectiveness of the corrective actions, and comprehensively pushes chemical suppliers to use the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods to track their own environmental performance, automatically implement follow-up corrective actions and conduct information disclosure. OR Brand publicly shares best practices on scaling up the efforts to reduce the environmental impact of chemicals production, use and discharge along its supply chain.
1.5
Total Score:12
Responsible management of wastewater
Brands employs the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods to track the environmental performance of suppliers’ centralized wastewater treatment facilities. Brands pushes suppliers to notify centralized wastewater treatment facilities with environmental violations to adopt corrective measures, issue public explanations regarding the reason for violation, corrective actions already undertaken or in progress and current compliance status, and employ the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods to track their own environmental performance.
5.25
Total Score:12
Responsible management of solid waste
Brand employs the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods to track the environmental performance of suppliers’ solid waste transportation, utilization and disposal entities. Brand pushes suppliers to notify those with environmental violations to adopt corrective measures, issue public explanations regarding the reason for violation, corrective actions already undertaken or in progress, current compliance status, and employ the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods to track their own environmental performance.
3
Total Score:6
Responsible management of logistic supplier
Brand pushes problem suppliers to issue public explanations regarding the reason for violation, corrective actions already undertaken or in progress, current compliance status in a timely manner, and pushes logistics suppliers to track their own and their subsidiaries’ environmental performance via the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods.
3
Total Score:6
Supplier selfmanagement
Supplier pushes its own problem suppliers to promptly issue public explanations regarding the reason for violation, corrective actions already undertaken or in progress, current compliance status in a timely manner, verify the effectiveness of the corrective actions or continuously disclose information on corrective actions, and pushes its suppliers to track their environmental performance via the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods.

Energy Conservation and Emissions Reduction

15.4
Total Score:20
Push suppliers to reduce their energy use and carbon footprint, and disclose energy and climate data
Brand comprehensively calculates the emission from value chain, publicly disclose value chain reduction target and track the progress made against its emissions reduction targets. Brand works with its suppliers to reduce emissions and motivate suppliers to calculate their own emissions and set up their own emissions reduction targets and track the progress.
8
Total Score:12
Push suppliers to reduce resource use and pollutant emissions, and disclose pollutant release and transfer data
Brand has publicly disclosed resource use and efficiency, and pollutant reduction target(s) and the progress made against these targets. Brands has identified priority sectors for resource use and pollutant emissions in its supply chain in China, as well as suppliers with high resource consumption and pollutant emissions, and continuously pushes identified suppliers with high resource consumption and pollutant emissions in China to measure and publicly disclose their verified PRTR data, set up and publicly disclose their reduction targets.

Promote Public Green Choice

1
Total Score:6
Guide the public into paying attention to the environmental performance of its supply chains in China
Brand proactively discloses information in annual reports and other public documents, websites, social media platforms or other public channels about its work to improve supply chain environmental performance.

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Communication Updates

  • required a factory to disclose its annual GHG emissions data.
    This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder Apple, actively reported and publicly disclosed its GHG emissions data in 2023.
    Suzhou
     Disclosed Carbon Data
    ● Enterprise has disclosed annual emissions data;
    ●Driving force: Stakeholders and environmentally conscious consumers.
    Publication Date:2024/4/25 4:58:28
  • required a factory to report its annual GHG emissions data.
    This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder Apple, actively reported its GHG emissions data in 2023.
    Suzhou
     Uploaded Carbon Data
    ● Enterprise has uploaded annual emissions data;
    ●Driving force: Stakeholders and environmentally conscious consumers.
    Publication Date:2024/4/25 4:35:52
  • required a factory to report its annual GHG emissions data.
    This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder Apple, actively reported its GHG emissions data in 2023.
    Ganzhou
     Uploaded Carbon Data
    ● Enterprise has uploaded annual emissions data;
    ●Driving force: Stakeholders and environmentally conscious consumers.
    Publication Date:2024/4/24 22:10:31
  • required a factory to report its annual GHG emissions data.
    This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder Apple, actively reported its GHG emissions data in 2023.
    Suzhou
     Uploaded Carbon Data
    ● Enterprise has uploaded annual emissions data;
    ●Driving force: Stakeholders and environmentally conscious consumers.
    Publication Date:2024/4/24 14:10:49

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