In order to assess the environmental performance of its key suppliers and to be aware of any environmental violations by those suppliers, DyStar has been using a tool created by the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) since FY2019. The tool allows DyStar to monitor its core suppliers' environmental performance and cases of non-compliance by creating a "Blue Map" of the shortlisted providers. DyStar will prompt suppliers to resolve any identified issues and take the necessary corrective action if they have been detected for any kind of non-compliance.

------ INTEGRATED SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2022-2023

We also share our supplier factory list with the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) Green Supply Chain Map. IPE’s map provides real-time performance data and historical trend information related to air-pollution emissions and wastewater discharge for thousands of major Chinese manufacturing factories.

---- 2021 Target Corporate Responsibility Report

We partner with the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) in China to enroll all Kontoor Brands Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers in China in IPE’s portal for environmental policy violation monitoring. This partnership enables real-time monitoring of environmental law violations and increases visibility of issues, accelerates remediation processes and deepens our understanding of our supply chain.

---- Kontoor Brands Sustainability Report 2020

To supplement our responsible sourcing strategy, we leverage the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) to screen our suppliers in China for environmental compliance... On a regular basis, we screen our suppliers within IPE’s Blue Map website to identify violations and, if found, create a corrective action plan for the respective vendor and facility to remediate within an assigned timeframe. In 2022, we screened more than 80% of our China facilities and over 50% have rectified their violations. We plan to continue expanding the scope of our supplier screening and push our suppliers to remediate outstanding environmental noncompliance.

——KOHL'S 2022 ESG REPORT

To be a BESTSELLER supplier, new suppliers are required to remediate all violation records on IPE’s public database. If factories want a higher rating, they are encouraged to share their pollutant data (PRTR data) and demonstrate that they are monitoring their overall environmental footprint and setting targets to reduce their impacts...
BESTSELLER is part of IPE’s Global Brand Map initiative, a publicly accessible map where you can see our suppliers’ environmental performance in real-time, as well as our suppliers' remediation history...
We also encourage our direct suppliers to use IPE's Blue Eco-chain to monitor the performance of partners in their own supply chain.

---- BESTSELLER SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2021

In 2022, we cooperated with IPE to provide regular special training for subsidiaries and suppliers, answering questions on a one-to-one basis and assisting subsidiaries and suppliers in solving issues such as GCA (Green Choice) audit on removal of environmental violation information submitted and refined the PRTR (Pollutant Release and Transfer Register) information disclosure.

--- Luxshare ICT 2022 Sustainability Report

Inditex works with the Chinese Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) on the continuous improvement of environmental management in our supply chain in this market. This entity provides information through its environmental platform, both from governmental sources and from the factories themselves and the brands that work with them. In addition to the environmental performance of the textile factories, IPE monitors upstream suppliers (raw materials and chemicals) as well as the wastewater treatment plants and the results of the wastewater analysis.

--- Inditex Annual Report 2022

The Green Chain Index for real estate enterprises is published by the Green Chain Action Committee, evaluated by the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE), and supported by the CURA, China Real Estate Chamber of Commerce, Society of Entrepreneurs and Ecology (SSE), and China Association of Building Energy Efficiency. According to the newly released rankings of the “Green Supply Chain CITI Index”, Landsea Green Management has once again taken the top spot, maintaining its leading position in China’s green real estate industry for six consecutive years.

--- Landsea Green Management 2022 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report

To supplement our core environmental work, Cisco engages with the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) to screen supplier sites based in mainland China for environmental violations or risks. We work with our suppliers to correct any environmental issues identified. Our areas of focus include wastewater, exhaust gas, and waste management and pollution mitigation, as well as tracking and addressing corrective action reports of illegal pollution.

---- 2023 Cisco Supplier Guide: Sustainability, Risk, and Security

In order to better address and monitor this, we joined the Green Supply Chain initiative in 2018, a publicly available online transparency tool that ties companies to their suppliers’ environmental performance... As a result of the collaboration with IPE and being committed to transparency in our supply chain, we do not only publish our direct tier 1 suppliers but also indirect suppliers or upstream suppliers in China which hold a higher risk in terms of environmental impact due to the nature of their operations like wet processing, wastewater treatment and hazardous waste treatment.

---- Corporate Responsibility Report 2020

Toyota actively communicates with stakeholders to conduct green procurement. Supplier compliance were verified by using the database of Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE). In 2019, Toyota continued to be ranked first in the automobile industry in the CITI Index 2019 Annual Evaluation Report.

---- Toyota China 2019～2020 Corporate Social Responsibility Report

We have fully launched supplier access standards and thresholds in 2021...... We also promoted green suppliers’ self-assessment, and monitored the environmental information of 30 suppliers through the supply chain management platform of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE).

---- 2021 Sustainability Report

Since 2016, we have comprehensively screened our suppliers in China using the Blue Map Database, a platform developed by the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE). This showed that speed of reaction, clear internal communication and risk prevention processes are key to improving compliance in our supply chain.

---- ASICS Sustainability Report 2019

Climate Action Transparency Index (CATI): Ranked No. 2 out of 825 companies across all industries and 87 information technology companies. Developed by IPE in 2021, this assessment focuses on brands’ performance on corporate and value chain-level climate action.

---- DELL TECHNOLOGIES FY23 ESG REPORT - SUPPLY CHAIN SUSTAINABILITY

If any zero tolerance issues are found during the onboarding of new suppliers, Li Ning will terminate the onboarding process. If the following major risks occur during the onboarding of new suppliers, (e.g., there are still unresolved supervision record(s) on the IPE website...), the potential suppliers must complete the rectification before resuming the onboarding process.

---Li Ning Co., Ltd. Supplier CSR Management Manual

The Responsible Sourcing team uses this information to monitor our China-based suppliers. Since partnering with IPE, we have resolved 122 violations with corrective action, including two cases in FY22. We have extended the IPE program to our suppliers’ sub-tier and vendor management, providing them with guidance and training. We have also given them a self-assessment tracking checklist, which includes 11 key checkpoints to enable suppliers’ to build their own IPE program.

---- Microsoft Devices Responsible Sourcing Report FY22

Seagate also conducted environmental compliance screenings of 41 Chinese supplier sites via the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) database. Two of these 41 suppliers (<5%) were found on the database for issues pertaining to effluent/wastewater quality. We are working with the two suppliers to address the non-compliance.

---- Fiscal Year 2021 Global Citizenship Annual Report

OPPO is investing more on the product side, introducing life cycle environmental management, continuously developing green products and greening enterprise operation so as to contribute to global carbon neutrality target ...... OPPO was ranked as TOP 49 across all industries in IPE's Green Supply Chain CITI evaluation. 

---- OPPO 2021 Sustainability Report

We have developed the Supplier Social Responsibility Investigation Form, covering 111 review items under 13 dimensions, including business ethics, labor rights and interests, chemical safety, environmental protection, fire safety, and occupational health. We use this form to investigate the social responsibility performance of suppliers, and require them to describe how to implement each item and provide relevant evidence accordingly. Then, we would command CSR personnel review such items and inform suppliers of the reason for non-compliance and effective rectifications for non-compliant items...TCL Industries focuses on the greenhouse gas management and IPE record management of suppliers while reviewing, and supervises and urges suppliers to establish greenhouse gas management organizations, mechanisms and personnel capabilities and eliminate IPE records as soon as possible.

--- 2022 TCL Industries Holdings Co.,Ltd. Corporate Social Responsibility Report

Intel is working to better understand our supply chain’s compliance to environmental laws in China. In support of this goal, we are working with the non-profit environmental research organization, the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE) to provide Intel with pertinent environmental compliance information... If Intel receives notification of any open non-compliance issues from IPE for a given supplier, Intel will notify the supplier in writing with detailed instructions. Intel expects Supplier to address or close the issue within 6 months. Failure to close identified issues with IPE within 6 months of Intel notifying the supplier will impact supplier report card scoring.

--- Intel SPARC Environmental Footprint

Since 2021, the Company has been using IPE’s Blue EcoChain tool to track the environmental performance of its suppliers and encouraging the disclosure of carbon data and GHG reduction targets.

--- Lenovo Group Limited 2022/23 Environmental, Social and Governance Report

We use the IPE’s platform and tools to ensure environmental compliance and monitor pollution data from our Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers in China. This platform also provides a mechanism for us to work with suppliers on corrective action if any environmental violations are found. As of the end of 2022, 128 Tier 1 and 41 Tier 2 suppliers registered to the IPE platform for monitoring.

---- Gap Inc. 2022 ESG Report

Suppliers and sub-tier suppliers (e.g., chemical, sewage and solid waste treatment, logistics and raw materials suppliers) are required to register as corporate users on the IPE website, track environmental performance, and promptly rectify and issue public explanation regarding environmental violations records; Mainland China suppliers and their sub-tier suppliers, which account for more than 80% of Avary Holding's procurement, are required to publicly disclose annual PRTR data on IPE website, measure greenhouse gas emissions, set emission reduction targets and regularly update progress.

------ Avary Holding CSR Report 2022

Lindex works with IPE to monitor environmental performance of direct suppliers and significant upstream suppliers in China through the PRTR (Pollutant Release and Transfer Registry) system. Lindex is one of the few brands in China that incorporates PRTR into our supply chain management requirements. In 2022, we deepened the partnership to also address sustainable development issues in China, and we are listed on the IPE Green supply chain map.

—— Sustainability Report 2022 Lindex

Starting in 2015, OJI China established a supply chain screening system using the Blue Map developed by the NGO Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) to inspect OJI’s key suppliers and invested enterprises in China. Since 2017, OJI has been sending letters of inquiry to enterprises with violation records asking them to publicly explain the outcomes of their corrective action to contribute to a more environmentally-friendly society.

---- Oji China Sustainability Report 2022

The Group fully understands the importance of public monitoring for environmental compliance relating to supply chains. Therefore, we actively collaborate with external parties such as the Institute of Public Environmental Affairs (IPE). We use the IPE Blue Map application to monitor supplier environmental compliance performance and provide improvement counseling for suppliers that incur environmental violations. Violation records are removed from the Blue Map website for suppliers following environmental reviews and verification of rectification effectiveness. In 2022, we assisted 32 suppliers with environmental violations in removing their records. We also extended environmental management to our upstream suppliers. To protect the public’s right to know about their surrounding environments, the Group guided 148 suppliers in filling out PRTR (Pollutant Release and Transfer Register) data for public disclosure on the IPE website in 2021.

---- 2022 Hon Hai Sustainability Report

We pilot employing IPE's Blue Map Database in supplier environmental compliance management in the industrial processes responsible for the production of clothing, footwear and other textiles (e.g. sleeping bags)... we plan to expand the pilot to other industrial processes. We also encourage suppliers to conduct self management using IPE's database.

--- 2021 Non Financial Reporting Declaration 2021

In 2020, in cooperation with the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs in Chaoyang District, Beijing, we established a “green list” online application platform, which has been officially launched, to include supply chain enterprises with outstanding performance in energy conservation and emission reduction in the “green list” and make priority purchases from them. In 2021, there were already 22 “green list” enterprises. At present, the green list standards for rock wool, heat pump, and stone have been formulated, and it is planned to continue to empower real estate enterprises and suppliers in the future to promote actual procurement.

--- 2022 Sustainability Report of Vanke

We use the Blue Map to effectively track the environmental performance of our owned projects in real time. The push notification via the Blue Map APP and emails also helps improve the efficiency of supply chain management which enables suppliers to undertake their primary responsibility for pollution management more proactively, and publicly respond to stakeholder enquiries regarding our compliance performance in a timely manner. The Blue Map has indeed become a platform for us to improve supply chain management.

---- Grandlbue ESG Report 2021

PUMA therefore requires those suppliers based in Mainland China to adhere to the following reporting policies: track their own environmental performance on IPE’s platform (via website or app). In the case of any violation, the Factory shall communicate with IPE to report follow-up actions; publish their environmental KPIs and other relevant data on IPE’s RPTR platform as requested by PUMA.

---- The Puma Forever Faster Sustainability Handbooks Environmental Standards

LS&Co. uses the IPE Blue Map environmental database to monitor our suppliers in China, all of which are registered to the database. We have also shared our supplier factory list and data with the IPE Green Supply Chain Map, which provides real-time performance data and historical trend information related to air emissions and wastewater discharge.

---- Levi Strauss & Co. 2020 Sustainability Report

Based on supply chain information published by the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE), a Chinese environmental NGO, we help secondary and tertiary suppliers and other Chinese businesses located in the upstream of the supply chain to reduce environmental risk by making recommendations and carrying out improvements. By sharing information regularly and communicating with the IPE on best practice, we contribute to reducing environmental risk throughout the supply chain.

--- Canon Sustainability Report 2023

Hang Lung and LVMH will work with the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE), an environmental NGO based in Beijing, to strengthen our environmental governance, including use of IPE’s

database and capabilities for enhanced supply chain due diligence and supplier engagement.

---- Our Common Charter: JOINING FORCES TO ACCELERATE CHANGE

We explicitly state in our Vendor Compliance and Operating Standards that all suppliers are required to adhere to all applicable laws and regulations of the regions where they operate, including, but not limited to, the local environmental standards. We have the right to terminate our business relationship should the supplier fail to comply with the applicable laws and regulations. In addition to that, we are screening our supply base for any potential significant environmental impacts through the Higg Index Facility Environmental Module and IPE Supervision platform (the latter is specific to China-based facilities). If an issue is found, we require the supplier to take corrective action and put in place preventive measures to avoid recurrence. Specifically, on any violation record found on the IPE platform, we also require the facilities—at a minimum—to publish enterprise feedback onto the platform, which details the corrective and preventive measures taken.

---- 2023 Global Citizenship & Sustainability Report

We screen China-based suppliers for environmental violations - including wastewater violations - using the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE) Blue Map Database. IPE collects publicly accessible data issued by governments and other testing agencies into its Blue Map database, increasing environmental information transparency and furthering our visibility into conditions at our factories in China. Through Blue Map, we identified 11 violations and then helped the suppliers identify the cause, remediate, and achieve compliance.

--- New Balance Sustainability and Impact Report 2022

We are pleased to have been recognised for our leadership in environmental supply chain management by China’s most influential environmental NGO, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE). In the 2022 Corporate Information Transparency Index (CITI), C&A ranked sixth out of over 120 apparel and textile brands and fourth overall among 611 companies across all industries. The annual index ranks the supply chain practices of brands in the areas of transparency, responsiveness, compliance and corrective action, energy conservation, emissions reduction, as well as performance disclosure.

---C&A Sustainability Report 2021

Continuing our sustainability work in China we have also collaborated with IPE which specialises in green supply chain mapping to increase the level of transparency with the factories we work with and ensure public accountability for energy consumption and waste generated.

----Communication on Progress | 2020/2021

The Clean Water Project is a programme primarily aimed at water‐consuming textile industries that use water and chemicals in their production processes... The Project includes a training and audit programme in chemical management, an environmental programme in China in collaboration with the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE).

--- CARREFOUR UNIVERSAL REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 2022 ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT

Since 2011, Huawei has participated in the Green Choice initiative, which was launched by the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE). We continue to use the IPE's Blue Map environmental data search during supplier audits and supplier self-checks, encourage suppliers to better manage themselves, and require suppliers to rectify all discovered problems within a required period, so as to ensure that suppliers maintain environmental compliance...In 2022, we conducted supplier CSR audits using internationally recognized methods...We also used the Blue Map database developed by the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) to assess supplier compliance with environmental requirements, and urged five suppliers to resolve the identified issues within a specified timeframe.

--- Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd. 2022 Sustainability Report

DWC has established a partnership with the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE). As supported by the IPE, DWC has driven suppliers to improve their compliance and encouraged suppliers to join the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) project, in a bid to realize more transparent environmental performance of suppliers..

---- Danone Waters China OPOH Progress Report 2022

Together with our strategic partners in the green supply chain, we promote the five major systems of IPE legal compli- ance, energy-saving technology exchange, eco-friendly material innovation, management system, and the selection of low-carbon raw materials.

——2022 Zhen Ding Technology Holding Limited Sustainability Report

Based on laws and regulations, the company takes customer standards as the guide, starts from the chapter of "solid waste", formulates and strictly implements the "Lens Group EHS Standardization Management Manual", integrates the regulatory requirements and daily EHS management process... The third-party solid waste treatment units must have adequate qualification and capacity, and have no violation record(s) on the IPE Blue Map website.

---Lens Technology Co., Ltd. CSR Report 2022

We partnered with the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) to conduct quarterly environmental risk screening of our direct suppliers in mainland China, including their compliance with environmental laws and regulations. Of the 123 direct suppliers screened, we identified 19 records of non-compliance for the period 2019-2022 and followed up on these records to ensure that corrective measures were implemented. All corrective actions are now in place.

---- Sustainability Report 2022/23

The company continues to promote multi-level and multi-dimensional responsibility audits...promote 9 suppliers to register IPE platform accounts, and a total of 166 suppliers have IPE platform accounts. A total of 37 suppliers have violation records on the IPE website, promoting 33 suppliers to conduct a GCA audit.

--- 2022 Fii CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY REPORT

We identify and assess significant environmental and social risks in our supply chain regularly through...NGO platforms e.g.environmental supervision records of Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (“IPE”)

---- CRYSTAL GROUP SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2021

To achieve our carbon reduction goals, we study all aspects of our supply chain, identify problems, and implement a variety of measures to effectively reduce carbon emissions. In November 2022, the 2022 Green Supply Chain CITI evaluation released by the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) showed that among 650 Chinese and international brands in 20 industries, Adidas ranked third with a score of 76.86. Adidas also ranked fourth in the Corporate Climate Action Transparency Index among all textile and leather industry with a score of 71.8, ranking seventh overall.

--- 2022 Adidas China CSR Report

During 2022, we continued encouraging our suppliers to submit inventories of substances released through IPE’s public pollutant release and transfer register system, and cross-checked supplier sites representing 95% of our spend against IPE’s public database of environmental violations. First-tier manufacturing suppliers in China also provide information about sub-tier supplier compliance with local environmental laws. This review of 1,237 sub-tier suppliers against IPE’s public database of environmental violations identified 135 issues in 2022. Of these, 41 had been corrected as of December 2022, and we continue working with the relevant first-tier suppliers and IPE to assess, address, and resolve the remaining issues.

--- 2022 HP Sustainable Impact Report

Collaborating with the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE), a China's environmental NGO, we have been working on to improve suppliers CSR environment, through sharing information on latest laws and regulations in a periodical working group meeting, and requesting for suppliers whose regulatory violation is recorded on a monthly base to improve it.

--- Environment: Collaboration Across the Supply Chain

GAC TOYOTA has constructed a comprehensive supplier environmental risk monitoring system by incorporating suppliers' emissions data, environmental supervision records and ratings from IPE's Blue Map database. GAC TOYOTA will follow up on suppliers' corrective actions following a "early detection and early resolution" principle.

------ GAC TOYOTA CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY REPORT

We have worked with the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) in China since 2016 to improve the environmental performance of tier one and tier two factories in our Chinese supply chain. This non-profit environmental research organisation has developed an online database and tool called Blue EcoChain, which offers instant updates on suppliers’ environmental performance. We’re also using Blue EcoChain to encourage our suppliers to manage their environmental impact in key areas such as water use.

--- Primark Environmental Insights 2021/22

IPE is a leading non-profit environmental research organization based in Beijing dedicated to collecting, collating, and analyzing government and corporate environmental data.Through its platforms and partnerships, IPE works to achieve environmental transformation, promote environmental information disclosure, and improve environmental governance mechanisms.

As the first recipient of IPEs CorporateInformation Transparency Index Master's Level Designation, Apple is committed to actively engaging our suppliers in China to help achieve our climate resource conservation goals, and to help others in the industry do the same.

---- People and  Environment in Our Supply Chain: 2022 Annual Progress Report

Facilities in China should conduct environmental legal compliance screening and monitoring using this IPE screening tool to ensure environmental legal compliance requirements are always met. This also applies to facilities’ upstream suppliers and contractors. As a best practice, the facility should conduct a violation screening quarterly...... If an environmental violation record is found the facility must communicate the violations to the relevant government agency, IPE, and VF within 10 calendar days. Facilities must immediately identify corrective actions and complete all necessary remediation efforts until the violation is delisted by IPE. The same would apply to all facilities upstream suppliers and contractors.

---- VF Facility Compliance Standards