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2013/14 Annual Report Lenovo Group Limited
We continue efforts to improve our ability to quantify,
track, and mitigate the impacts of our supply chain and
our products. During FY2013/14 we continued work with
the Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) on
the development of an online environmental data reporting
system to engage our suppliers’ support in helping
reduce GHG emissions and to track the emissions of our
supply chain. Working with suppliers we have achieved
significant emissions reductions through greater efficiency
and also ensured a high level of supplier reduction goals
and validated third-party verification. Our efforts with the
EICC also continue to include work on tracking water and
waste impacts in our supply chain. The new reporting
system will allow us to begin tracking the water and
waste performance of our suppliers and initiate dialogue
regarding opportunities for improved performance and
corrective actions for identified compliance issues. We
are planning to start evaluating waste generation and
disposal in our supply chain next fiscal year.
Lenovo established a product transportation carbon
emissions baseline for FY2011/12 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 (GFAN) for promoting sustainable logistics
practices. GFAN was officially launched in October
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:
• China ICT Product Life-Cycle Assessment Data
Service Platform,
• IEC Technical Report GHG Quantification
Methodology for Computers,
• Low Carbon Product Certificate in China,
• China ICT Supporting Low Carbon Economy,
• EICC Product Carbon Footprint Data Allocation
Algorithm Development.
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
is committed to participate in the next phase of the PAIA
project which will extend the PAIA methodology to two
additional product classes: mobile computer devices
(e.g., tablets) and all-in-one computers.
Lenovo will participate in the China MIIT (Ministry of
Industry and Information Technology) voluntary energy
conservation agreement. By participating in this program
Lenovo commits to drive down the energy consumption
of select mainstream products year to year, over the next
3 years.
Lenovo is committed to disclosing its climate change
management practices, results of the evaluation of our
climate change risks and opportunities and our GHG
emissions inventory through the CDP public reporting
system. In FY2013/14 Lenovo achieved a 2013 CDP
score of 94 (out of a possible 100) which placed Lenovo
in performance band A. Lenovo’s CDP reports are publicly
available at http://www.cdproject.net. This placed Lenovo
in the Leadership Group for performance and disclosure
for the Asia excluding Japan region. In November 2013,
Lenovo was awarded a “Best Responding Companies”
award at a CDP event in Hong Kong. Lenovo was also
recognized in 2013 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.