Nike’s Solvent (VOC) Reduction Project
Over the years, Nike has reduced the amount of solvent used in FW production by over 90%, largely by converting solvent-based adhesives to water-based alternatives.
77.06
Total Possible Score: 1006
Out of 741 total brands4
Out of 61 total brands in the Leather & PU industry5
Out of 126 total brands in the Textile industry76.80
Total Possible Score: 1008
Out of 1510 total brands3
Out of 61 total brands in the Leather & PU industry4
Out of 157 total brands in the Textile industryBrand 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.
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.
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.
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.
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, and comprehensively pushes chemical suppliers to use the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods to track their own environmental performance, automatically implement follow-up corrective actions and conduct information disclosure. OR Brand publicly shares best practices on scaling up the efforts to reduce the environmental impact of chemicals production, use and discharge along its supply chain.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brand 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.
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. 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.
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.
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)
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.
With the vigorous development of China's digital economy, Nike is committed to building a more intelligent, flexible, efficient and sustainable supply chain system to further improve logistics and operational efficiency and further accelerate digital transformation.
Nike has built longer-term relationships and with our manufacturing partners over the course of the past few decades. These partnerships have allowed us to develop innovative products and manufacturing capabilities, and now we are leveraging those relationships to drive action on climate change.
Solving the problems of massive power consumption and carbon emissions in corporate logistics centers and transportation links is one of the keys to Nike's efforts to achieve "zero carbon" in the field of logistics.
For almost six years, Nike has championed wastewater recycling as one of the main strategies to reduce our freshwater footprint and to minimize the amount of wastewater discharged into the environment. This strategy is paying off. By the end of Nike’s 2019 fiscal year (FY19) , we reduced our global freshwater use by 25.4 percent vs. our 2020 target of a 20 percent reduction (on a liters/kg basis) from a FY16 baseline.
Over the last year, Nike has worked with 17 factories that drive 90% of its injection phylon (IP) midsole defect waste globally to implement the Stella tracking system or similar systems based on the same principles. This has prevented 450,000 KGs of waste, saved $1.6M, and prevented 2.1M KGs of CO2e.
Nike has two 2020 Targets related to waste reduction. First, reducing to zero footwear manufacturing waste to landfill or incineration. Second, reducing waste by 10% in footwear manufacturing. Nike suppliers in China have been leading the way in achieving these goals.