Experience over the past decade has shown that green supply chain development helps strengthen corporate environmental management through market mechanisms, promote efficient resource use, and reduce pollution and product carbon footprints. It enhances corporate resilience while contributing positively to ecological protection and climate action. However, intensifying geopolitical competition, increasing fragmentation of the global governance system, and frequent trade frictions—including tendencies toward decoupling and supply chain disruption—have made global supply chain stability harder to maintain, inevitably affecting the advancement of green supply chain initiatives. Against this complex backdrop, IPE upgraded CITI Criteria and conducted a quantitative evaluation of 800 companies across 23 industries. IPE aims to identify the new challenges and issues companies are facing, as well as to discover and promote best practices. The evaluation seeks to build common understanding among stakeholders, create an enabling environment for both Chinese and international companies to green their supply chains.

Experience over the past decade has shown that green supply chain development helps strengthen corporate environmental management through market mechanisms, promote efficient resource use, and reduce pollution and product carbon footprints. It enhances corporate resilience while contributing positively to ecological protection and climate action. However, intensifying geopolitical competition, increasing fragmentation of the global governance system, and frequent trade frictions—including tendencies toward decoupling and supply chain disruption—have made global supply chain stability harder to maintain, inevitably affecting the advancement of green supply chain initiatives. Against this complex backdrop, IPE upgraded CITI Criteria and conducted a quantitative evaluation of 800 companies across 23 industries. IPE aims to identify the new challenges and issues companies are facing, as well as to discover and promote best practices. The evaluation seeks to build common understanding among stakeholders, create an enabling environment for both Chinese and international companies to green their supply chains.

Three reports were launched on 22 July by experts convened by the UN, showing how greater impact can be achieved by breaking down silos and tackling the climate change and sustainable development crises together. With the majority of the global population residing in cities, which also account for the majority of GHG emissions, there is great potential to improve public health through climate action with high-impact co-benefits, according to the expert report on Linking Climate and Health Action in Cities. Reducing air pollution by replacing fossil fuels with clean energy could prevent up to 1.2 million premature deaths annually by 2040, with up to 4.7 million additional lives saved if measures against black carbon and methane are adopted. A shift to plant-based diets could prevent 10–11 million premature deaths yearly. Infrastructure promoting walking and cycling can cut emissions, improve cardiovascular health, and reduce mortality, and increasing urban tree cover to 30% could prevent over 2,600 heat-related deaths each summer in Europe alone. Financial and technical support at the national and international levels is vital to enables cities—especially in the Global South—to implement such synergistic strategies.

October 31, 2024 - The Institute for Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) released the 11th annual Green Supply Chain CITI Evaluation Report, highlighting that driven by environmental information disclosure, Chinese and foreign enterprises have extended environmental and carbon management to upstream supply chain, while leading enterprises have motivated suppliers to reduce environmental impact and carbon emissions.

The evaluation results show that leading cities continue to maintain high standards in waste sorting, with Suzhou and Shanghai scoring far ahead. Their standardized systems, based on the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the Development of Urban Domestic Waste Classification and Treatment Facilities, have withstood the test of time and are in stable operation. Several cities, having established waste sorting and disposal systems, have achieved basic waste sorting goals through secondary sorting. Among them, Beijing stands out as a representative, ranking third nationwide in total score.

October 19, 2023 - The Institute for Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) released the 10th annual Green Supply Chain CITI Evaluation Report, highlighting that driven by environmental information disclosure, green supply chain development in China has made significant progress in the past decade, contributing to China's environmental governance and global climate action.