M&S collaborates with Maersk on Green Logistics in the Supply Chain
Marks & Spencer partners with logistics corporation-Maersk and strives to improve the environmental performance of the whole supply chain.
Subsidiary brands:
Green Supply Chain CITI
Corporate Climate Action CATI
CITI score
71.32
Total Possible Score: 100Total rank
12
Out of 741 total brandsIndustry rank
1
Out of 22 total brands in the Retailers industryIndustry rank
9
Out of 126 total brands in the Textile industry
CATI score
75.60
Total Possible Score: 100Total rank
10
Out of 1510 total brandsIndustry rank
1
Out of 23 total brands in the Retailers industryIndustry rank
6
Out of 157 total brands in the Textile industry
CITI Category Scores Analysis
CATI Category Scores Analysis
CITI Category Scores Benchmarking
CATI Category Scores Benchmarking
CITI Category Scores
CATI Category Scores
1. Responsiveness and Transparency（total score: 14.00）
12.00-
1.1 Respond to Enquiries and Engage with Public
6.00Brand 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.
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1.2 Promote Supply Chain Transparency
6.00Brand 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.
2. Compliance and Corrective Actions（total score: 18.00）
13.50-
2.1 Establish Screening Mechanism
5.50Brand 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.
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2.2 Push Suppliers to Take Corrective Actions
8.00Brand 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.
3. Extend Green Supply Chain Practices（total score: 30.00）
15.70-
3.1 Responsible management of chemicals
3.00Brand 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.
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3.2.1* Responsible management of wastewater
4.90Brands 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.
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3.2.2* Responsible management of solid waste
1.80Brand 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.
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3.3 Responsible management of logistic supplier
3.00Brand 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.
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3.4 Supplier self-management
3.00Supplier 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.
4. Energy Conservation and Emissions Reduction（total score: 32.00）
26.12-
4.1 Push suppliers to reduce their energy use and carbon footprint, and disclose energy and climate data
15.12Brand comprehensively calculates the emission from value chain, publicly disclose value chain reduction target and track the progress made against its emissions reduction targets. Brand works with its suppliers to reduce emissions and motivate suppliers to calculate their own emissions and set up their own emissions reduction targets and track the progress.
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4.2 Push suppliers to reduce resource use and pollutant emissions, and disclose pollutant release and transfer data
11.00Brand 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. Brand pushes suppliers to pay attention to resource consumption and pollutant emissions in their own supply chains, and drives upstream and downstream industrial chain to improve resource use efficiency, reduce pollutant emissions, measure and disclose PRTR data.
5. Promote Public Green Choice（total score: 6.00）
4.00-
5.1 Guide the public into paying attention to the environmental performance of its supply chains in China
4.00Through 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.
Note:
The total score of category 3.2 is 12, while the conversion ratio for indicator 3.2.1 and 3.2.2 will vary by industry (See CITI Evaluation Guidelines-Appendix II)
1.1 Governance:
Policy Construction
（total score: 5.00）
5.00
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1.1.1 Company has committed to climate actions and made climate declaration(s)
2.00 -
1.1.2 Company has developed corporate carbon neutrality plan and management system
2.00 -
1.1.3 Company has incorporated policies regarding supplier energy conservation, emissions reduction, and carbon accounting and reporting into written documents such as the supplier code of conduct
1.00
1.2 Governance:
Mechanism Construction
（total score: 5.00）
5.00
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1.2.1 Company has integrated climate-related issues into its business strategy and has specific climate-related risk management procedures
2.00 -
1.2.2 Company has integrated climate-related issues into board-level oversight
1.00 -
1.2.3 Company offers capacity building and financial incentives, and/or launches innovative projects for suppliers to reduce emissions
2.00
2.1 Measurement & Disclosure:
Scope 1&2 Emissions
（total score: 9.00）
9.00
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2.1.1 Company has publicly disclosed Scope 1&2 emission data
4.00 -
2.1.2 Company has publicly disclosed comprehensive energy consumption and energy usage by energy types
2.00 -
2.1.3 Company has publicly disclosed carbon intensity or energy intensity
2.00 -
2.1.4 Company has publicly disclosed information on carbon emission trading
1.00
2.2 Measurement & Disclosure:
Scope 3 Emissions
（total score: 6.00）
6.00
-
2.2.1 Company has publicly disclosed Scope 3 emissions
4.00 -
2.2.2 Company collects supplier carbon emission data on a regular basis
2.00
2.3 Measurement & Disclosure:
Product Carbon Footprint
（total score: 4.00）
0.00
-
2.3.1 Company has publicly disclosed product carbon footprint
0.00
3.1 Carbon Targets Setting:
Scope 1&2 Targets
（total score: 7.00）
6.00
-
3.1.1 Company has set and publicly disclosed its ongoing Scope 1&2 emission reduction targets or energy consumption targets
2.00 -
3.1.2 Company has set and publicly disclosed its Scope 1&2 carbon neutrality target
2.00 -
3.1.3 Company has set and publicly disclosed its renewable energy target
1.00 -
3.1.4 Scope 1 & 2 climate targets are certified or approved by a third party
1.00
3.2 Carbon Targets Setting:
Scope 3 Targets
（total score: 7.00）
6.00
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3.2.1 Company has set and publicly disclosed its ongoing Scope 3 emission reduction targets
3.00 -
3.2.2 Company has set and publicly disclosed its Scope 3 carbon neutrality target
2.00 -
3.2.3 Company has set specific objectives on promoting suppliers to set their own emission reduction targets
0.00 -
3.2.4 Scope 3 climate targets are certified or approved by a third party
1.00
4.1 Performance against Carbon Targets:
Scope 1&2 Emission Reduction Progress
（total score: 7.00）
7.00
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4.1.1 Company has publicly disclosed progress made towards its Scope 1 & 2 emissions reduction targets or energy consumption targets
3.00 -
4.1.2 Company has publicly disclosed progress made against its Scope 1&2 carbon neutrality target
2.00 -
4.1.3 Company has publicly disclosed progress made against its renewable energy target
2.00
4.2 Performance against Carbon Targets:
Scope 3 Emission Reduction Progress
（total score: 7.00）
5.00
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4.2.1 Company has publicly disclosed progress made against its Scope 3 emission reduction targets
3.00 -
4.2.2 Company has publicly disclosed progress made against its Scope 3 carbon neutrality target
2.00 -
4.2.3 Company tracks its suppliers’ target setting progress
0.00
5.1 Climate Action:
Decarbonization in Company Operation
（total score: 12.00）
8.00
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5.1.1 Company has conducted non-fossil energy utilization projects and/or green power procurement and disclosed associated emission reductions
4.00 -
5.1.2 Company has conducted energy monitoring and energy management
1.00 -
5.1.3 Company has conducted energy efficiency improvement projects and disclosed associated emission reductions
1.00 -
5.1.4 Company has conducted other types of emission reduction projects and disclosed associated emission reductions
2.00 -
5.1.5 Company has reduced emissions through carbon offsets, and disclosed associated emission reductions
0.00 -
5.1.6 Company has incorporated emission reduction approaches into the product design process
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5.2 Climate Action:
Decarbonization in Value Chain
（total score: 7.00）
3.50
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5.2.1 Company promotes suppliers to conduct corporate greenhouse gas and energy management
1.00 -
5.2.2 Company has launched energy saving initiatives and/or low carbon technology innovation initiatives with material suppliers, and disclosed associated emission reductions
1.00 -
5.2.3 Company has launched emission reduction initiatives with logistics suppliers, and disclosed associated emission reductions
1.00 -
5.2.4 Company has published best practices on supply chain carbon management annually
0.00 -
5.2.5 Company has established (or coordinated with downstream customers to establish) end-of-life recycling mechanisms to recycle used products
0.50 -
5.2.6 Company has promoted suppliers to replace primary production raw materials with recycled materials or lower carbon substitutes, and disclosed associated emission reductions
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5.2.7 Company has established (or coordinated with downstream customers to establish) end-of-life recycling mechanisms to recycle used products
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5.3 Climate Action:
Affiliated Company Engagement
（total score: 8.00）
4.00
-
5.3.1 Affiliates have measured and publicly disclosed their carbon emission at facility level
4.00 -
5.3.2 Affiliates have set carbon targets, tracked and public disclosed reduction progress at facility level
0.00
5.4 Climate Action:
Upstream Supplier Engagement
（total score: 16.00）
12.00
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5.4.1 Direct suppliers have measured and publicly disclosed their carbon emissions at facility level
2.00 -
5.4.2 Direct suppliers have set carbon targets, tracked and publicly disclosed reduction progress at facility level
3.00 -
5.4.3 Indirect suppliers have measured and publicly disclosed their carbon emissions at facility level
3.00 -
5.4.4 Indirect suppliers have set carbon targets, tracked and publicly disclosed reduction progress at facility level
3.00 -
5.4.5 Company employs the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods to empower upstream suppliers to manage their supply chain carbon emissions
1.00
Note:
As carbon hotspots vary from industry to industry, a weighting factor applies across four of the five CATI activity areas: Measurement & Disclosure (15%; Indicator 2.3.1 does not apply), Carbon Targets Setting (14%), Performance against Carbon Targets (14%) and Climate Action (43%). The default weighting factors for each industry are shown in the CATI Evaluation Guidelines.
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Communication Updates
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required a factory to report its annual resource use and emissions data.This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder M&S, actively reported its pollutant release and transfer registry (PRTR) data. The factory has reported PRTR data in 2022, 2023.Yinchuan
Uploaded PRTR Data
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●Driving force: Stakeholders and environmentally conscious consumers.Publication Date：2024/9/8 11:15:59 -
required a factory to conduct corrective actions for supervision record(s).This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder M&S, actively communicated with environmental groups to implement corrective actions for its supervision record(s) , and disclosed information on the status of its corrective actions.Wuxi
Corrective Actions
● Rectification progress: Enterprise with supervisions has carried out correction action(s);
● Driving force: Stakeholders and environmentally conscious consumers.Publication Date：2024/9/7 18:50:29 -
required a factory to report its annual GHG emissions data.This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder M&S, actively reported its GHG emissions data in 2023.Yinchuan Uploaded Carbon Data
● Enterprise has uploaded annual emissions data;
●Driving force: Stakeholders and environmentally conscious consumers.Publication Date：2024/9/7 3:01:25 -
required a factory to disclose its annual GHG emissions data.This factory, through motivation from its stakeholder M&S, actively reported and publicly disclosed its GHG emissions data in 2023.Jiangmen Disclosed Carbon Data
● Enterprise has disclosed annual emissions data;
●Driving force: Stakeholders and environmentally conscious consumers.Publication Date：2024/9/7 1:34:32
