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Lenovo established a product transportation carbon emissions baseline for FY 2011/12 and since then has been
working on improving data collection processes and increasing carriers’ coverage in the baseline through the use of
a web-based carbon dashboard. Lenovo has become a founding board member of the Green Freight Asia Network
(GFA) for promoting sustainable logistics practices. GFA was officially launched in August 2013. Please visit www.
greenfreightasia.org for further information.
We continue our engagement in the development of standards and tools to accurately quantify the lifetime impact
of our products. Our China Standards and Compliance Group is engaged in the Chinese government’s development
of a product category rule for establishing the product carbon footprint for information and communications
technologies (ICT) products.
Lenovo has also been actively involved in the following carbon footprint projects:
• Product Carbon Footprint China Standard
• China ICT Product Life-Cycle Assessment Data Service Platform
• IEC Technical Report GHG Quantification Methodology for Computers
• China ICT Supporting Low Carbon Economy, and
• EICC Product Carbon Footprint Data Allocation Algorithm Development.
Due to its strong local presence in China, Lenovo is leading its advocacy efforts in China Energy and Carbon
Standard and policy in the IT products field, and is active in the following energy efficiency and carbon-related
workgroups, associations, and initiatives: China PCF (PCR) Standard Working Group, China Energy Label Standard
and Technical Committee, China Energy Saving Work Association of Chinese Institute of Electronics, China ePCF
Platform Union and China Energy Conservation Program.
Lenovo worked with HP, Seagate, Cisco and MIT on a new method for calculating product carbon footprint
(PCF). The goal of the project was to develop a product-specific allocation methodology that links facility-wide
environmental data to the specific product types being made within that particular facility. Please read the results of
this project in the paper Standardizing Methods for Performing Allocation of Supplier Carbon Data for IT Products.
Lenovo continues to work with other members of the ICT industry, academia and the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency in the Product Attribute Impact Algorithm (PAIA) project. The project’s goal is to develop a methodology
and tools to simplify and expedite identifying the product carbon footprint for PCs. With the release of tools for
notebooks, desktops and monitors, Lenovo published product carbon footprint values for a typical notebook,
desktop and visuals product during May 2013. Lenovo also participated in the next phase of the PAIA project, which
extended the PAIA methodology to two additional product classes: mobile computer devices (e.g., tablets) and all-
in-one computers.