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
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

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

2
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.
1.5
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.
2.8
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.
1
Total Score:6
Supplier selfmanagement
Brand empowers its suppliers to manage environmental risks along their own supply chains.

Energy Conservation and Emissions Reduction

8.52
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.
3
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 requires these suppliers to reduce resource use and increase efficiency, reduce pollutant emissions and track changes.

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.

Communication Updates

  • required a factory to conduct corrective actions for supervision record(s).
    This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder Hitachi, actively communicated with environmental groups to implement corrective actions for its supervision record(s) , and disclosed information on the status of its corrective actions.
    Suzhou
     Corrective Actions
    ● Rectification progress: Enterprise with supervisions has carried out correction action(s);
    ● Driving force: Stakeholders and environmentally conscious consumers.
    Publication Date:2023/11/29 14:48:19
  • required a factory to issue an explanation for supervision record(s).
    This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder Hitachi, actively communicated with environmental groups to issue an explanation for its supervision record(s) from the year(s) 2023.
    Suzhou
     Explanation
    ● Rectification progress:  Enterprise with supervisions has issued public explanation(s);
    ● Driving force: Stakeholders and environmentally conscious consumers.
    Publication Date:2023/11/29 14:16:46
  • required a factory to issue an explanation for supervision record(s).
    This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder Hitachi, actively communicated with environmental groups to issue an explanation for its supervision record(s) from the year(s) 2019, 2021.
    Shanghai
     Explanation
    ● Rectification progress:  Enterprise with supervisions has issued public explanation(s);
    ● Driving force: Stakeholders and environmentally conscious consumers.
    Publication Date:2023/9/22 14:46:26
  • required a plastic products factory to conduct an audit for its air emissions supervision record(s).
    This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder Hitachi, 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.
    Shenzhen
     Air Emissions
    ● Environmental violation issue: Industrial emissions pollution;
    ● Potential impact on: air 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:2023/7/3 14:02:34

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