In recent decades, the globalization of manufacturing has accelerated. There is a growing consensus among business communities regarding the central importance of supply chains to a company’s environmental footprint. Brands must therefore take an active role in reducing the environmental impact of their suppliers in order to significantly reduce their own pollution and emissions.
IPE calls on brands to incorporate environmental compliance into their sourcing standards and to use procurement incentives to encourage remediation and green manufacturing. Rewarding good environmental performance with greater business is the single best point of leverage for changing the culture of tolerating pollution and reducing one’s overall corporate footprint.
The CITI scoring system provides a step-by-step roadmap for the private sector to reduce its impacts by incorporating environmental performance into their supplier sourcing standards.
With IPE’s Blue Map Database, Blue Eco-Chain and PRTR reporting platform, dozens of domestic and multinational corporations more efficiently and effectively oversee the environmental performance of their suppliers in China.
Search the CITI Rankings for our leading partners or read the CITI Evaluation Methodology in details.
Pollutant Release and Transfer Registry (PRTR) is an environmental database or inventory of both hazardous chemical substances and conventional pollutants released into the air, water and soil and transferred off-site for treatment and disposal collected on an annual basis. PRTR reporting systems are commonly used in the U.S., the E.U., Japan and other regions around the world.
For more information, please see the report: Establishing a PRTR Disclosure System in China
Brands demonstrate maximum transparency by linking their suppliers in China to environmental data
Since 2006, brand companies have pushed over 18,000 suppliers to take corrective action and publicly disclose their environmental information. Join a leading movement of brands today.