Industry Rank
2
Out of 22 Total Brands in the Retailers Industry
16
Out of 126 Total Brands in the Textile Industry
CITI Score
61.78
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.
5.5
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, and publicly discloses supply chain environmental information in the form of a map, OR Brand comprehensively 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.
10
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

2.5
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 or continuously disclose information on corrective actions, and pushes chemical suppliers to track their own environmental performance via the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods.
4.2
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.
0.9
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.
4
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

12.68
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.
6
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

5
Total Score:6
Guide the public into paying attention to the environmental performance of its supply chains in China
Brand establishes waste recycling systems, publicly discloses recycling methods and progress, and guides the public to participate in waste recycling. Or Brand establishes plastic reduction mechanisms in the production, distribution, recycling, and disposal of products, and guides the public to participate in plastic reduction actions.

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Communication Updates

  • required a factory to disclose its annual GHG emissions data.
    This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder Target, 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:2024/3/29 13:57:20
  • required a factory to disclose its annual GHG emissions data.
    This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder Target, 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:2024/3/29 10:13:59
  • required a factory to report its annual GHG emissions data.
    This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder Target, 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:2024/3/29 9:19:26
  • required a factory to report its annual GHG emissions data.
    This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder Target, 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:2024/3/29 9:03:35

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