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2013/14 Annual Report Lenovo Group Limited
Lenovo continued to demonstrate leadership in
FY2013/14 with sustainability and social responsibility
programs that have been recognized by the global
community, including:
• Lenovo was selected as a constituent stock of the
2013 Hang Seng Corporate Sustainability Index for
the fourth year in a row, acknowledging Lenovo’s
ongoing commitment to sustainability. For the third
consecutive year, Lenovo earned a position on the
index’s Honour Board, which puts it among the top 5
out of 353 companies whose corporate sustainability
performance was examined. In addition, Lenovo is
the top rated company in the index’s Information
Technology sector and the only company in its sector
among the Hong Kong top 20.
• Lenovo was selected for inclusion in the first United
Nations Global Compact 100 (GC 100) – a new global
stock index that combines corporate sustainability
and baseline financial performance. The GC 100
marries corporate performance on environmental and
social issues with a requirement of basic profitability.
• Lenovo is rated as “Prime” by oekom research AG,
an independent research institute specializing in
corporate responsibility assessments. The oekom
corporate rating is based on a comprehensive set of
criteria for ethical assessment of companies.
• In FY2013/14 Lenovo achieved a 2013 CDP score
of 94 (out of a possible 100) which placed Lenovo
in performance band A through the CDP public
reporting system. Lenovo has received honors from
CDP over the past year including a “Best Responding
Companies” award, and recognition as part of the
CDP Supply Chain Performance Leadership Initiative
2013. For further details on these accomplishments
and Lenovo’s climate change initiatives, please see
www.lenovo.com/climate.
• In July 2013 Lenovo appeared for the first time on the
U.S Environmental Protection Agency’s Top 30 Tech
& Telecom list of the largest green power purchasers.
Lenovo purchased more than 35 million kWh of
green power annually by buying renewable energy
certificates. According to the U.S. EPA, Lenovo’s
green power purchase of more than 35 million kWh
is equivalent to avoiding the carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions of more than 5,000 passenger vehicles
per year or the CO2 emissions from the electricity use
of nearly 4,000 average American homes annually.
Please click here for more information:
www.epa.gov/greenpower/toplists.
• Lenovo was awarded the 2013 ET Carbon Ranking
Leader Award on behalf of the Environmental
Investment Organisation. Lenovo ranked third in
the 2013 BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and
South Africa) 300 Carbon Ranking for greenhouse
gas emissions reporting and disclosures. Please visit
www.eio.org.uk for more detail.
• Lenovo was featured in “The Business Case for
Carbon Measurement and Disclosure in China” (May
2013) report as one of the Chinese companies that
recognize that responding to climate change has
become a business imperative. Lenovo’s practices
provide an example for other Chinese companies and
their role to promote a low carbon future in China.
Please see a full report here: The Business Case for
Carbon Measurement and Disclosure in China.
• Lenovo continues to be recognized in the area of
occupational health and safety management and was
awarded the “Safety Enterprise” award by the Futian
District in Shenzhen, China, the “Safety Culture
Excellence Company” award by the Guangdong
Province, China and consecutive Gold awards
for Whitsett and Morrisville by the North Carolina
Department of Labor.
• Lenovo has made investments in our supply chain
and is actively engaged in due diligence efforts to
track the use of materials sourced from conflict
regions and challenge our suppliers to set and meet
climate change reduction targets, in addition to the
extensive auditing and reporting requirements we
maintain for our suppliers.
Lenovo is a signatory to and member of the UN Global
Compact and fully embraces its policies and principles.
The UN Global Compact is a public-private strategic
policy initiative for businesses committed to aligning
operations and strategies with ten universally accepted
principles in the area of human rights, labor, environment
and anti-corruption.