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.

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.

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. Brands comprehensively pushes centralized wastewater treatment facilities to track their own environmental performance via Blue EcoChain or other automated methods, and automatically implement follow-up corrective actions and conducts information disclosure. OR Brand continues to improve the wastewater management and control capabilities of suppliers, publicly shares best practices on scaling up the efforts to reduce the environmental impact of wastewater discharge along its supply chain.

Brand comprehensively pushes solid waste transportation, utilization and disposal entities to track their own environmental performance via Blue EcoChain or other automated methods, and automatically implement follow-up corrective actions and conduct information disclosure. OR Brand reduces the environmental impacts of solid waste production, transportation, utilization and disposal across the supply chain or that of product recycling, reuse and resource utilization, promotes a fully closed-loop flow of “resources-products-consumption-renewable resource” cycle, and publicly share best practices on scaling up the efforts to reduce the environmental impact of solid waste reduction and resource utilization.

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 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.

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.

Through 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.