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2011/12 Annual Report Lenovo Group Limited
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY REPORT
Lenovo supports its commitment to compliance through
internal and external audits of its own facilities and those
of suppliers. The environmental and health and safety
management systems at both Lenovo’s manufacturing
and development sites are subjected to internal audits
at least annually. These same sites are also exposed to
environmental and health and safety audits by external
entities at least once in three years, with most sites being
audited twice in three years.
Lenovo acts to ensure compliance in its supply chain with
Lenovo personnel performing environmental audits at
the sites of suppliers whose services provide significant
environmental risk and at the company’s largest suppliers.
Lenovo requires that its largest suppliers comply with
the Electronics Industry Code of Conduct and verify this
compliance through 3rd party audits. During the year
Lenovo personnel performed audits at 35 supplier locations.
Lenovo continues to work internally and externally to
reduce the environmental impact of its operations. The
positive results of these efforts were demonstrated by
the company reaching the first milestone of its 10 year
greenhouse gas reduction commitments at the beginning
of FY 2011/12. As of March 31, 2011, Lenovo reduced
its absolute Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions relative to
FY 2009/10 by 10.4%. Lenovo also met its goal of either
offsetting or eliminating all Scope 1 emissions, reducing
its actual emission by greater than 16.5% and purchasing
offsets to carbon balance the remainder.
Lenovo is now focusing on meeting the second milestone in
this 10 year initiative. That is to reduce Scope 2 emissions
by 13% relative to FY 2009/10 by March 31, 2013. While
the company is confident of reaching this target, it will be
met with a greater percentage of the reduction coming
from the purchase of carbon offsets. Lenovo has already
committed to offsetting the FY 2012/13 emissions from
its new facility in Chengdu, China through the purchase of
offsets. These offsets will be purchased from China based
projects. The company is further committed to purchases
of renewable energy credits and carbon offsets from the
EarthEra Trust in North America.
All sites continue to identify and implement energy efficiency
projects and evaluate the opportunity to implement the
use of renewable energy. During FY 2011/12 the Lenovo
manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China was recognized
by Pudong New District for their award winning energy
efficiency project that reduced annual energy consumption
by 946,000 KWh and saved RMB850,000. At the Shanghai
facility work has begun on the Golden Sun Project which
will result in the installation of a solar array at the plant.
This project will provide approximately 10% of the facilities
current electricity demand and offset about 10% of its FY
2010/11 CO2e emissions.