Huawei requires suppliers to be green and low-carbon, and encourages carbon neutrality

Huawei requires suppliers to be green and low-carbon, and encourages carbon neutrality. In recent years, Huawei has been committed to the development of green and low-carbon. In 221, Huawei incorporated carbon emission reduction requirements into the whole process of supplier management, and put forward carbon emission reduction requirements for all suppliers. Huawei requires suppliers to be green and low-carbon, and encourages carbon neutrality. Huawei requires suppliers to be green and low-carbon, and encourages them to be carbon neutral. In 222, Huawei suppliers' carbon emission reduction conference will be held in an online and offline way. The theme of this conference is "Green and low-carbon, win together". At the conference, relevant government departments, experts, Huawei and supplier representatives attended, and introduced and shared the global carbon emission reduction situation, China's "double carbon" policy, carbon emission reduction implementation path, industry standards, excellent practices and Huawei's supply chain carbon emission reduction requirements.

Tan Qingliang, director of the Climate Change Division of Shenzhen Environmental Protection Bureau, said that carbon neutrality in peak carbon dioxide emissions is not only an energy revolution, but also an extremely extensive and profound green industry revolution, which will reconstruct the entire industrial chain. A high-quality enterprise should not only bear the responsibility of carbon neutrality, but also establish a supply chain with carbon neutrality in conjunction with suppliers in order to achieve the emission reduction targets of the whole supply chain.

"Huawei has integrated the green environmental protection requirements into the procurement quality priority strategy and the whole procurement business process, and made clear the green environmental protection requirements in all aspects of the whole process, such as supplier certification, selection, on-site audit and performance management. Carbon emission reduction is both a challenge and an opportunity for Huawei suppliers." Huawei's chief supply officer should speak for the people.

Ma Jun, director of the Center for Public Environmental Research (IPE), pointed out that at present, the Blue Map database has included 2,177,468 regulatory records, which can boost the green supply chain and green finance through data, and guide enterprises to actively respond to climate change through the enterprise climate action index, so as to help enterprises achieve zero-carbon transformation.

China attaches great importance to the management of green supply chain, and has successively issued policies and standards such as Guiding Opinions on Actively Promoting the Innovation and Application of Supply Chain, Guiding Opinions of the State Council on Accelerating the Establishment and Improvement of Green Low-carbon Circular Development Economic System, and Green Supply Chain Management Guidelines for Green Manufacturing Enterprises, which have stipulated the management of green supply chain and provided a basic model for enterprises to carry out green supply chain management.

In 213, Huawei started the pilot project of carbon emission reduction for suppliers, and more than 1 suppliers participated in the pilot project. Huawei has also continued to strengthen the management of suppliers' carbon emissions. In 22, it began to promote TOP suppliers who accounted for more than 8% of the purchase amount to set carbon emission reduction targets and implement carbon emission reduction actions. In 221, carbon emission reduction requirements will be included in the whole process of supplier management, carbon emission reduction requirements will be put forward for all suppliers, leading suppliers will be encouraged to achieve carbon neutrality in advance, and excellent practices will be encouraged to share, so as to realize the green, low-carbon and sustainable development of the whole supply chain. Huawei requires suppliers to be green and low-carbon, and encourages carbon neutrality. 2

"Huawei has integrated green environmental protection requirements into the procurement quality priority strategy and the whole process of procurement business, and defined green environmental protection requirements in all aspects of the whole process, such as supplier certification, selection, on-site audit and performance management." At the 222 Huawei Supplier Carbon Reduction Conference held today, Huawei Chief Supply Officer Wei Min said that carbon reduction is both a challenge and an opportunity for Huawei suppliers.

it is reported that the theme of this conference is "green and low-carbon, win together". Huawei hopes that all suppliers will take the initiative to meet the challenge of carbon emission reduction, seize the opportunity, continue to practice the concept of green and low-carbon development, set feasible and challenging carbon emission reduction targets, and work with Huawei to continuously reduce the total carbon emissions of the supply chain and realize the green and low-carbon sustainable development of the whole supply chain. More than 2 people from more than 6 suppliers around the world attended the conference online.

"Carbon neutrality in peak carbon dioxide emissions is not only an energy revolution, but also an extremely extensive and profound green industrial revolution, which will reconstruct the whole industrial chain. A high-quality enterprise must not only bear the responsibility of carbon neutrality, but also establish a supply chain with carbon neutrality responsibility in conjunction with suppliers in order to achieve the emission reduction targets of the entire supply chain. " Tan Qingliang, director of the Climate Change Division of Shenzhen Ecological Environment Bureau, said.

The conference also invited relevant experts and representatives of excellent suppliers to attend, and introduced and shared the global carbon reduction situation, China's "two-carbon" policy, the realization path of carbon reduction, industry standards and excellent practices, and Huawei's supply chain carbon reduction requirements.

Ma Jun, director of the Center for Public Environmental Research (IPE), said: "At present, Azure Map Database has included 2,177,468 regulatory records, which can boost green supply chain and green finance through data, and guide enterprises to actively respond to climate change and help enterprises achieve zero-carbon transformation through the enterprise climate action index."

In recent years, Huawei has been committed to green and low-carbon development. As early as 213, it started the pilot project of carbon emission reduction for suppliers, when more than 1 suppliers participated in the pilot project. Since then, Huawei has continuously strengthened the management of suppliers' carbon emissions. In 22, Huawei began to promote TOP suppliers who accounted for more than 8% of the purchase amount to set carbon emission reduction targets and implement carbon emission reduction actions. In 221, Huawei incorporated carbon emission reduction requirements into the whole process of supplier management, put forward carbon emission reduction requirements for all suppliers, and encouraged leading suppliers to achieve carbon neutrality in advance.

Not long ago, Huawei released the report "Green Development 23", "Huawei will continue to innovate ICT technology around building green ICT infrastructure and accelerating the development of renewable energy, so as to enable the sustainable development of human society." Zhang Hongxi, chief marketing officer of Huawei ICT infrastructure, introduced.

At present, climate and environmental changes have become a great challenge for the survival and development of human society. "Through the integration and application of digital technology, renewable energy and clean energy, we will increase the proportion of new energy generation, optimize the energy supply and demand model, accelerate the pace of green and low-carbon energy transformation, and finally benefit the entire energy system and society to achieve green and sustainable development to meet the challenges brought about by climate change."

Liang Hua, chairman of Huawei, has publicly stated that the global energy saving and emission reduction brought by ICT industry will far exceed the energy consumption and carbon emissions of its own operation. According to the forecast of the Global Electronic Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), by 23, ICT technology will help reduce global carbon emissions by 2% by empowering other industries. After Huawei asked its suppliers to be green and low-carbon, and encouraged them to achieve carbon neutrality, 3

Apple, Huawei also began to ask suppliers to reduce carbon.

On May 24th, 222, at the carbon emission reduction meeting of Huawei suppliers, Huawei Chief Supply Officer Wei Min announced that Huawei had incorporated green environmental protection into the procurement process, and made clear the requirements for green environmental protection in all aspects.

among domestic electronic consumer manufacturers such as Xiaomi, OPPO and vivo, Huawei first put forward this requirement to suppliers, and even made it clear in the procurement process.

in 213, Huawei began to pilot carbon emission reduction projects for suppliers, and it didn't start to accelerate until 22, pushing the head suppliers who accounted for more than 8% of the purchase amount to set carbon emission reduction targets. Obviously, Huawei also accelerated the transformation of its supply chain after "double carbon" became a global trend.

Huawei has also given a clear timeline for the pace of emission reduction, including plans to complete the setting of carbon emission reduction targets for TOP1 suppliers by 225.

after apple, Huawei, which has base stations, cloud services and consumer electronics businesses, has also joined in reducing emissions and carbon, which is of great significance to global carbon neutrality. The long supply chain of consumer electronics will involve the exploitation of non-renewable resources and the recycling of electronic waste. For example, rare earth elements will be used in motors, and the production and elimination of plastic packaging will also bring carbon emissions.

Huawei and Apple's carbon reduction actions are also paving the way for their own overseas business. Especially when the EU pays more and more attention to "double carbon", whether the supply chain is clean or not will even affect the global circulation of future products.

the pressure of carbon reduction will be gradually transmitted to other consumer electronics brands. Except Huawei and Apple, Samsung and Xiaomi have not set their own carbon-neutral targets. This is not because they lack a sense of responsibility, but because of the huge capital investment and interest combing behind them, it is difficult to get quick success and instant benefit from the transformation of the supply chain.

The trend of the times

Huawei needs to adapt to the increasingly stringent international emission reduction environment. On May 17th, the European Parliament passed the Carbon Border Regulation Mechanism (CBAM) bill.

Simply put, the biggest impact on China manufacturers is that they will levy taxes on products with high energy consumption exported to the EU, such as cement, fertilizer and steel. Moreover, this bill proposes to include "indirect emissions", that is, to include the electricity emissions from suppliers in the assessment.

At present, only cement, electric power, fertilizer, steel and aluminum will be affected by the CBAM bill, but the EU's carbon reduction is relatively radical, so it is hard to guarantee that it will not be extended to consumer electronics in the future.

Apple has long seen the trend of reducing carbon, which is of course related to CEO Cook's own emphasis on environmental protection. Apple is also the most radical manufacturer of carbon reduction, and it has encountered a lot of controversy because of its radicalism. The biggest criticism is that it will no longer give away charging heads.

But Apple does provide many manufacturers with carbon reduction paths.

The first is the use of recyclable materials. A large number of rare earth elements and metals are used in consumer electronics, and aluminum, steel, gold and some rare earths are used in apple products. In the end, Apple hopes to purchase 1% renewable materials, and the production of new products will not consume additional metal and rare earth resources.

It is reasonable for Apple and Huawei to reduce emissions from the supply chain first. According to Deloitte's report, the carbon dioxide equivalent generated by smartphones is 146 million tons, more than 8% of which comes from production. Controlling the carbon emissions of the supply chain actually controls the overall carbon emissions.

this requires suppliers to join the carbon reduction team. In 215, Apple began to implement the clean energy plan. By this year, 55 China suppliers have promised to use only clean energy.

Apple and Huawei have a strong voice in the supply chain. They can force the supply chain to reduce emissions, but it is difficult for other manufacturers to do the same.

It is difficult to push

At present, more Internet companies such as Google, Tencent and Baidu, which are relatively easy to reduce emissions, announce their carbon-neutral targets. For example, Tencent proposed in February this year to achieve full carbon neutrality in its own operations and supply chains no later than 23. Although companies involved in game consoles such as Sony and Microsoft have also announced carbon-neutral timetables, more manufacturers are still waiting to see.

although Huawei requires the supply chain to gradually shift to clean energy, it has not set its own carbon neutral time chart. Apple's radical measures, which have caused heated discussion, have proved that it is much more difficult for hardware manufacturers to achieve carbon neutrality than Internet companies.

Even if it is as strong as Apple, it needs to compete with the head supplier.

a helpless fact is that Samsung, Apple's head screen supplier, is not on the list of emission reduction suppliers. Samsung Electronics also publicly stated that it has not been able to work out a specific road map for zero emissions in 23.

for the electronics industry, the most important thing is to use electricity. According to Apple's report, 7% of carbon emissions in its supply chain come from electricity use.

but even replacing fossil fuels with electricity is very difficult. Even though the South Korean government promises to be carbon neutral by 25, at present, more than 7% of Samsung's electricity comes from fossil fuels. Hyundai, SK, LG and other large-scale manufacturing industries are also similar to Samsung, and it is difficult to complete clean energy substitution.

The supply chain of consumer electronics is complicated, including giants such as Samsung and numerous small suppliers scattered around the world. For small suppliers, the investment in carbon neutrality is not high. For example, the installation of small-scale distributed photovoltaic power plants can meet the needs of power generation. Apple also invests in clean energy with suppliers in the form of clean energy funds.

but for large companies, achieving carbon neutrality means huge capital investment, which is why it is difficult for manufacturing companies to promote their plans.

According to media reports, it will cost 35 billion won (about 2 billion yuan) to buy carbon capture devices, and all their profits can't cover the cost of equipment purchase and carbon emission rights. Sony, which set up a carbon-neutral plan, also achieved it 1 years later than Apple. According to Sony's sustainable development report in 221, Sony's renewable energy consumption only accounts for 7% of the total electricity consumption.

Huawei's emission reduction is more complicated. Even if the supply chain is carbon neutral, it is difficult for them to solve the energy consumption in the use of base stations. In particular, the surge in 5G electricity consumption will undoubtedly increase the difficulty of reducing carbon.

in the life cycle of network equipment, in fact, carbon emissions from production only account for 2%, and carbon emissions from use are as high as 8-95%. Even if the supplier is carbon neutral, Huawei still needs to solve the carbon emissions in the subsequent operation and maintenance.

besides the company's own business, it is difficult to replace it in a short time, and even the energy structure problems of various countries are behind the supply chain transformation. For example, South Korea has always been dominated by fossil energy and is the fourth largest coal importer in the world. At present, there are many coal-fired power plants in Korea, and the installed capacity of coal-fired power is still rising. Samsung is not the only company that can change the country's energy structure.

At present, carbon neutrality in China focuses on high-energy industries, such as electricity and chemical industry, and the emission reduction of consumer electronics is more dependent on the company's autonomy. When the global mobile phone industry is shrinking, in the short term, it will be difficult for us to see the road map of Samsung and Xiaomi, who have more difficult and urgent problems to worry about.