Industry Rank
1
Out of 37 Total Brands in the Household Appliances Industry
8
Out of 69 Total Brands in the IT/ ICT Industry
CITI Score
48.68
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.
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

3
Total Score:6
Establish Screening Mechanism
Brand employs the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods to track its suppliers’ environmental compliance AND pushes suppliers to track their own environmental compliance via Blue EcoChain or other automated methods.
7
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

1.5
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, and employs the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods to track chemical suppliers’ environmental performance.
1.2
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.
3.5
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.
2
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, and employs the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods to track logistics suppliers’ environmental performance.
1
Total Score:6
Supplier selfmanagement
Brand empowers its suppliers to manage environmental risks along their own supply chains.

Energy Conservation and Emissions Reduction

8.48
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.
4
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

4
Total Score:6
Guide the public into paying attention to the environmental performance of its supply chains in China
Through product packaging, labeling, online and/or offline sales channels, the brand guides the public to understand environmentally friendly product design that is easy to sort, recycle and reuse, as well as the approaches and results of manufacturing, supply chain management, logistics, product use, waste product and packaging recycling, and other processes to reduce environmental impact or environmental footprint.

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  • Samsung China Improves Subsidiaries' Water Recycling
    As the core of its green production, Samsung China has consistently implemented a most stringent water resources management system, from developing a water use index and strengthening the management of its water use objectives to promoting water resource optimization through an intensive water-saving system.
    Brand Cases

Communication Updates

  • required a factory to disclose its annual GHG emissions data.
    This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder Samsung, actively reported and publicly disclosed its GHG emissions data in 2023.
    Tianjin
     Disclosed Carbon Data
    ● Enterprise has disclosed annual emissions data;
    ●Driving force: Stakeholders and environmentally conscious consumers.
    Publication Date:2024/4/22 20:52:00
  • required a factory to report its annual GHG emissions data.
    This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder Samsung, actively reported its GHG emissions data in 2023.
    Tianjin
     Uploaded Carbon Data
    ● Enterprise has uploaded annual emissions data;
    ●Driving force: Stakeholders and environmentally conscious consumers.
    Publication Date:2024/4/20 21:19:45
  • required a factory to report its annual resource use and emissions data.
    This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder Samsung, actively reported its pollutant release and transfer registry (PRTR) data. The factory has reported PRTR data in 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023.
    Wuxi
     Uploaded PRTR Data
    ● Enterprise has uploaded annual emissions data;
    ●Driving force: Stakeholders and environmentally conscious consumers.
    Publication Date:2024/3/28 18:58:08
  • required a factory to disclose its annual GHG emissions data.
    This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder Samsung, actively reported and publicly disclosed its GHG emissions data in 2023.
    Xi'an
     Disclosed Carbon Data
    ● Enterprise has disclosed annual emissions data;
    ●Driving force: Stakeholders and environmentally conscious consumers.
    Publication Date:2024/3/26 16:23:41

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