Industry Rank
2
Out of 37 Total Brands in the Household Appliances Industry
CITI Score
37.8
Total Possible Score:100

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.
4
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; OR Brand pushes its suppliers in China, including suppliers with high environmental impacts, to use the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods to track their own environmental performance and commit to provide public disclosures regarding violations in a timely manner, thereby accepting public supervision

Compliance and Corrective Actions

4.5
Total Score:6
Establish Screening Mechanism
Brand employs the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods to track its suppliers’ environmental compliance AND comprehensively pushes its suppliers to track their own environmental compliance, including potential suppliers.
5
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

1
Total Score:6
Responsible management of chemicals
Brand extends its environmental management to chemical production, use and discharge along its supply chain, and publicly discloses matching requirements.
1.2
Total Score:12
Responsible management of wastewater
Brand extends its environmental management to wastewater generation, treatment and discharge along its supply chain, and publicly discloses matching requirements. Brand identifies which suppliers use offsite wastewater treatment facilities, and pushes those suppliers to publicly disclose the name of centralized wastewater treatment facilities receiving their wastewater, as well as the discharge standard stipulated in the agreement between the centralized wastewater treatment facility and the supplier, employs the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods to track the environmental performance of suppliers’ centralized wastewater treatment facilities.
1.4
Total Score:12
Responsible management of solid waste
Brand extends its environmental management to solid waste transportation, utilization and disposal along its supply chain, and publicly discloses matching requirements, and employs the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods to track the environmental performance of suppliers’ solid waste transportation, utilization and disposal entities.
0.5
Total Score:6
Responsible management of logistic supplier
Brand extends its environmental management to the logistics process along its supply chain and publicly disclose green logistics policies.
1
Total Score:6
Supplier selfmanagement
Brand empowers its suppliers to manage environmental risks along their own supply chains.

Energy Conservation and Emissions Reduction

10.2
Total Score:20
Push suppliers to reduce their energy use and carbon footprint, and disclose energy and climate data
Brand calculates the greenhouse gas emissions from its value chain, publicly discloses its value chain reduction targets and implement initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain.
1
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.

Promote Public Green Choice

2
Total Score:6
Guide the public into paying attention to the environmental performance of its supply chains in China
Brand guides the public through online interactions and/or offline activities to understand its best practices to motivate suppliers in China to improve their environmental performance.

Brand StoriesMore brand stories

  • Panasonic Improves Supply Chain Environmental Management Systems
    Panasonic's business in China has always been oriented towards sustainable development since the very beginning. In product design, manufacturing and recycling, Panasonic is committed to using advanced technology to protect our planet and contribute to greening lives.
    Brand Cases

Communication Updates

  • required a electronics factory to conduct an audit for its wastewater, air emissions, solid waste supervision record(s).
    This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder Panasonic, actively communicated with environmental groups to implement corrective actions for its supervision record(s) , and underwent a third-party audit to verify the effectiveness of its corrective actions.
    Hangzhou
     Wastewater
    ● Environmental violation issue: Industrial wastewater pollution;
    ● Potential impact on: water quality, river ecology, public health.
     Air Emissions
    ● Environmental violation issue: Industrial emissions pollution;
    ● Potential impact on: air quality, public health.
     Solid Waste
    ● Environmental violation issue: Industrial solid waste pollution;
    ● Potential impact on: soil and ground water quality, public health.
     Audit
    ● Rectification progress:Enterprise with supervisions has demonstrated the effectiveness of corrective actions via third party audits;
    ●Driving force: Stakeholders and environmentally conscious consumers.
    Publication Date:2024/2/4 9:40:42
  • required a electronics factory to conduct corrective actions for wastewater, air emissions, solid waste supervision record(s).
    This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder Panasonic, actively communicated with environmental groups to implement corrective actions for its supervision record(s) , and disclosed information on the status of its corrective actions.
    Hangzhou
     Wastewater
    ● Environmental violation issue: Industrial wastewater pollution;
    ● Potential impact on: water quality, river ecology, public health.
     Air Emissions
    ● Environmental violation issue: Industrial emissions pollution;
    ● Potential impact on: air quality, public health.
     Solid Waste
    ● Environmental violation issue: Industrial solid waste pollution;
    ● Potential impact on: soil and ground water quality, public health.
     Corrective Actions
    ● Rectification progress: Enterprise with supervisions has carried out correction action(s);
    ● Driving force: Stakeholders and environmentally conscious consumers.
    Publication Date:2024/2/2 17:28:07
  • required a machinery factory to conduct an audit for its solid waste supervision record(s).
    This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder Panasonic, actively communicated with environmental groups to implement corrective actions for its supervision record(s) , and underwent a third-party audit to verify the effectiveness of its corrective actions.
    Dalian
     Solid Waste
    ● Environmental violation issue: Industrial solid waste pollution;
    ● Potential impact on: soil and ground water quality, public health.
     Audit
    ● Rectification progress:Enterprise with supervisions has demonstrated the effectiveness of corrective actions via third party audits;
    ●Driving force: Stakeholders and environmentally conscious consumers.
    Publication Date:2024/1/29 9:19:53
  • required a machinery factory to conduct corrective actions for solid waste supervision record(s).
    This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder Panasonic, actively communicated with environmental groups to implement corrective actions for its supervision record(s) , and disclosed information on the status of its corrective actions.
    Dalian
     Solid Waste
    ● Environmental violation issue: Industrial solid waste pollution;
    ● Potential impact on: soil and ground water quality, public health.
     Corrective Actions
    ● Rectification progress: Enterprise with supervisions has carried out correction action(s);
    ● Driving force: Stakeholders and environmentally conscious consumers.
    Publication Date:2024/1/27 11:57:21

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