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. Additionally, Brand has reached a written agreement with its suppliers to join the Blue EcoChain or equivalent system to follow a set process for promptly adopting follow-up corrective actions and conducting information disclosure (even without brand involvement), and promoted its implementation.

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 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.

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 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.