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Gren Suply Chain 2019 CITI uation Anual Report 2 About the Authors Institute of Public 2. The quotes from Cisco, C Huawei, Li Ning and Landsea were particularly noteworthy brands in this regard, as were the manufacturers Foxcon, Esquel, Mianyang Fulin Precision Machining and Avary Holding Collective eforts from members of the China Urban Reality Asociation and the Real Estate Industry Gren Suply Chain Action group significantly strengthened their leverage among suply chain busines partners by incorporating the requirement of environmental compliance into their colective procurement initiative, raising the bar of suply chain management by using suplier qualification criteria on environmental matters to drive out bad perers and reward the god On the transparency front, four new brands – Carefour, C compliance and corective action; and data disclosure and transparency. Points are maximized when companies give priority to their hotspots of environmental impact, reaching beyond their Tier 1 supliers and pushing their direct supliers to scren their own supliers. Disclosure of ination beyond legal requirements – on energy and water use and the discharge of key polutants and chemicals – is also encouraged with aditional points in the scoring system. Table 1 Scoring fields and points provided in CITI The five subsections of CITI scoring indicated in Table 1 provide a structure and step-by-step guide for brands on how to gren their supply chains and procurement programs. More detail on the CITI Scoring System can be found in Appendix 1, with changes made for 2019 described in Appendix 2. A recommended roadmap for how brands not yet engaged in CITI can best begin their suply chain work is provided later in this report. Gren Suply Chain 2019 CITI uation Anual Report 11 2019 CITI SCORES At its core, a high CITI score reflects high-functioning environmental oversight that enables a brand to develop a supplier portfolio of strong factories that take their environmental responsibilities – both compliance and beyond compliance – seriously. CITI Top 50 Gren Suply Chain 2019 CITI uation Anual Report 12 The table above shows this year’s CITI scores for the top 50 brands which have demonstrated excellence in undertaking suply chain environmental responsibility in China.2See Appendix 3 for the complete list of al 438 brands uated in 2019. Most of these top brands have consistently scored wel in our system over the past few years. We particularly congratulate the thre new brands that have entered the CITI Top 20 – Cisco, Huawei and Tesco – whose suplier oversight acelerated significantly during the 2019 uation year. As in previous years, brands in the IT and apparel sectors were the most active in IPE’s gren suply chain system. In 2019, these sectors began to drive changes among supliers of fashion accesories, ceramics, plastics, glas, yarn, fiber, buttons and zippers, mechanics, printing and ink, paper and packaging, and chemicals, as wel as hazardous waste treatment, wastewater treatment and domestic waste incineration facilities. With this extension of their screning scope, these brands have provided quite a significant bost to the breadth of the IPE suply chain oversight program. On the other hand, over the same time period this past year, too many companies, especialy those from the chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, dairy, beer, personal care and paper industries continued to score zeroes in the CITI assesment, indicating no activity on the ground whatsoever. Seventy-nine companies remained completely unengaged, not even responding to comunication from IPE about a factory of concern in their suply chain, and provided no public comitment to grening their suply chain in China as far as we could determine; this number also remained esentially the same in 2019 as in 2018. An additional 191 companies stil scoring at or below five points in CITI can be similarly regarded as not significantly engaged in their suply chain system. This patern indicates that the immense progres and impacts of IPE’s 2019 program stems from the growing activity of already engaged brands rather than significant numbers of new companies undertaking suply chain oversight with us for the first time. 2Scores from last year may have changed slightly, even in cases where suply chain oversight remained the same, due to minor changes in the scorecard system described in Appendix 2. Gren Suply Chain 2019 CITI uation Anual Report 13 New in 2019 CITI Master This year IPE has taken a new step in the Gren Suply Chain CITI uation to inaugurate a CITI Master category. This category has ben conceptualized to drive aspiring Masters to mature their suply chain programs to the point of equal partnerships with supliers – such that accountability for compliance issues rests equally on supliers’ shoulders, rather than fuly relying upon continuing eforts of the brand to detect problems and in the suplier of its responsibilities, issue a public explanation and undertake corrective action each time a problem arises. Specific criteria for qualifying as a CITI Master are as folows 1. Ranked as a top perance brand in the annual CITI; 2. Maintains high perance standards in suply chain environmental management based on the Blue EcoChain or equivalent data system, which enables the brand to comunicate evidence dynamicaly. 3. Requires al key supliers to track their environmental perance via Blue EcoChain or equivalent data systems to ensure their own acountability on a dynamic basis. The CITI Master category wil recognize the single top brand perer in suply chain responsibility each year. Once a Master, a brand is no longer scored on an anual basis in CITI, making rom for a new top perer for the coming year. IPE wil nonetheles review the company’s perance each year to ensure that it is maintaining the high suply chain perance for which it was recognized as a Master. A company may lose its Master designation if it is no longer pering at a Master level. Apple was awarded the inaugural CITI Master designation in 2019. The company has ranked 1 in the CITI anual report for five years in a row. It has ben tracking and rectifying compliance problems for 23 supliers in China in cordination with IPE and the Gren Choice Aliance since 2012, and it has delivered high level of compliance with suppliers with its diligence and persistent work. The company has recently joined Blue EcoChain for 2019 and has comited to bringing al of its existing suppliers into Blue EcoChain, thereby fulfiling the final criteria of a Master. We heartily congratulate Aple for this exciting achievement and lok forward to welcoming more leading CITI perers into the Master clas in the future Gren Suply Chain 2019 CITI uation Anual Report 14 GREN SUPLY CHAINS 2019 RESULTS Expanded eforts by al stakeholders improved supply chain perance in 2019 Considerable progres was evident in suply chain oversight during the 2019 period, reflecting expanded efforts by al stakeholders concerned with environmental improvement in China. As a result of this broad stakeholder engagement, IPE saw a very gratifying increase in the number of factories taking public acountability for their polution problems, rectifying those problems by transparent means and providing ination beyond legal requirements in their comitment to become stronger environmental leaders. Government inspections and the enforcement of environmental and safety regulations, which have been on the upswing in China for the past several years, maintained a high rate in 2019 to suport these stakeholder eforts. In particular, the Chinese government continued to release tens of thousands of aditional compliance “supervision” records to the public this past year, which expanded the number of records in the IPE Blue Map database by 17 in the first eight months of 2019 to over 1.5 milion Figure 1. Figure 1. Number of compliance records colected into the Blue Map database33The bar highlighted in gren reflects a one-time release of historical violations sparked by the Notice on Moving Toward Completion of the Review Work of Construction Project Environmental Violations issued by the Ministry of Environmental Protection MEP in 2017. This notice resulted in the release of more than 620,0 violation records featuring the historical review of ilegal construction projects without Environmental Impact Asesment EIA aprovals. Gren Suply Chain 2019 CITI uation Anual Report 15 Continued energetic government inspection eforts in 2019, which led to closures and suspensions of production in egregious circumstances as wel as a large uptick in corective actions, reinforced brand recognition of the busines value inherent in improved suply chain oversight – if for no other reason than to reduce suply chain operational risks trigered by noncompliance. It also supported increased atention from ESG investors/financial institutions about practices that might have material impact on the perance of a given investment or loan. These government eforts also suported broader local environmental NGOs’ public supervision of factory perance in 2019. Five NGOs of particular note, Lvse Jiangnan, Gren Qilu, Huangdao District Qingyuan Environmental Protection Public Service Center, Gren Oxygen Ecological - Huawei extended the scope of its suplier CSR audits to subcontractors, thereby extending the sphere of its impact; - Esquel required its dispersed dye and intermediate manufacturers as wel as printing ink supliers to conduct GCA audits to verify the efectiveness of their corective actions; - Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation SMIC required two hazardous waste treatment facilities to conduct GCA audits to verify the efectivenes of their corective actions; - China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group CECIC incorporated violation screning into its project biding document and pushed one testing lab and one construction company to contact IPE for record removal; - Two leading suplier groups to major brands in the automotive and IT industries – Mianyang Fulin Precision Machining Co., Ltd. and Avary Holding – reacted to brands’ requirements on environmental compliance by completing GCA audits. They then decided to use the Blue Map Database to control the risks along their own suply chain by tracking and requiring those with violation records to give public explanations; - Li - C - Primark asked seven of its cosmetics supliers and Nike pushed two of its white carbon black suppliers7to conduct audits to verify the efectivenes of their corective actions. Centralized wastewater treatment facilities To date, concerned that they lack suficient influence, too many brands have shied away from screning the environmental perance of centralized industrial wastewater treatment facilities WWTPs that jointly treat wastewater from any suppliers, such as in an industrial park seting. However, this past year, brands such as Adidas, Columbia, C washing and printing factories to do the folowing 1. Track the environmental perance and real-time monitoring data of their upstream and downstream suppliers in China through the Blue Map app or Blue EcoChain system; 2. Provide timely fedback on environmental violation records and remove any records through a document review or Gren Choice Aliance GCA audit; 3. Publicly disclose anual energy, hazardous waste, wastewater and air emisions data by uploading it onto the Institute of Public and Environmental Afairs IPE Polutant Release and Transfer Registry PRTR plat; 4. Publish the wastewater testing reports on the Grenpeace Detox plat. Over the past few years, we have been working with the Chinese NGO the Institute of Public and Environmental Afairs IPE to help improve the environmental perance of our Chinese supliers. In IPE s Gren Suply Chain CITI Report, IPE uates retailers and brands based on their environmental ination and perance transparency. We are pleased to se this year s progres as a forward leap.” Gren Fashion | Second Place in the Industry C some denied responsibility because JTC was a Tier 2 suplier, rather than a Tier 1; and some promised to get back to us, but did not folow through. BASF, which was already using the IPE database to overse their subsidiary factories, declined for now to expand its oversight to the independently owned factories from which they source many raw materials.8The American Chemistry Council AC, one of the industry’s major trade asociations, declined to engage and noted that its Responsible Care Program was not designed to addres outsourced manufacturing. IPE is in preliminary conversations with the industry’s European trade asociation, Together for Sustainability TfS, to ases interest in steping up to further help their membership on suply chain oversight maters9. One bright exception, the dye company Archroma, steped forward when contacted by IPE, after we learned from pres acounts that the dye industry’s suply chain had ben severely impacted by the JTC closure. In early August, Archroma began to pilot IPE’s Blue Map Database for suplier environmental compliance screening and ined those with violation records to provide explanations. Several Archroma supliers have since contacted IPE with explanations and updates on their rectification plans. Another industry trailblazer, Huntsman Chemical, expanded their compliance oversight to indirect supliers of raw materials this year. Chemical manufacturing is an inherently dangerous industry and one that cries out for rigorous safety and environmental checks. The giant multinational chemical manufacturing companies are wel positioned to leverage improvements, and it is a good business practice for them to do so if 8BASF has required four of its subsidiaries in China to provide public explanations regarding violations since October 2018. 9See Outsourced Responsibility Response to Fatal Explosion by Chemical GiantsnullIPE’s full report on this incident and the disappointing response from the chemical sector to this incident. Gren Suply Chain 2019 CITI uation Anual Report 29 for no other reason than to ensure the reliability of their own production We cal upon this industry to join the IPE gren suply chain program in 2020 and follow the guide ofered by the CITI scoring system to develop an efective, transparent and diligent supplier oversight program. More brands should undertake supply chain oversight beyond Tier 1 Despite the encouraging leap in the number of factories publicly reporting on their compliance problems and rectification plans, and the continuing high scores of the most engaged corporate CITI companies, IPE saw most brand CITI scores did not increase significantly over the same 2019 uation cycle. Two particularly important CITI sub-scores – Section 3.1 and 3.2, which score brands f
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