1、 What is the SBTi Science Carbon Target Initiative?
The SBTi (Scientific Carbon Targets Initiative) is a global initiative jointly launched by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), the World Resources Institute (WRI), and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), aimed at increasing the ambition of businesses, encouraging them to take more proactive emission reduction actions and solutions, and jointly addressing global climate change. By setting science based carbon emission targets through SBTi, companies can identify the necessary emission reductions required for their operations to meet the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, thereby achieving their own carbon neutrality goals.
According to official information from SBTi, as of the end of December 2023, approximately 6849 institutions worldwide have signed the Science Carbon Target Initiative, committing to setting scientific carbon targets. Currently, 526 enterprises in our country have signed commitment letters, of which 226 have already received approval for their carbon targets. (The specific list can be found on the SBTi official website)
2、 Decarbonization Action: Lingyun Law Firm Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report
Enterprise Overview:
As a socially responsible enterprise, Shanghai Lingyun Yongran Law Firm takes the lead in fulfilling its social responsibilities in response to international norms such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. From now on, it will be committed to conducting greenhouse gas emission surveys to help the company effectively control and manage its current greenhouse gas emissions. Based on the survey results, it will further promote key plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. To implement the Scientific Outlook on Development, pursue excellence, promote enterprise management in line with international standards, continuously enhance employee and other stakeholders' satisfaction, and coexist harmoniously with nature and society.
Since the establishment of the enterprise, the leaders and department heads have attached great importance to environmental protection issues in production and operation. They have organized employees, worked together, and started from details to continuously improve and innovate various aspects such as equipment, management, and operation, achieving significant results. In terms of energy and resource consumption, companies provide training to employees to cultivate the good habit of turning off lights at will. Ensure timely inspections and spot checks on high power consuming equipment. In terms of solid waste, enterprises implement a system of classified placement and centralized recycling of the generated solid waste, and hand it over to qualified recycling departments for disposal to reduce environmental hazards.
Division of responsibilities for scientific carbon targets:
Executive Partner
1. Determine the overall development direction of the corporate environment.
2. Responsible for providing the necessary resources for the establishment and operation of environmental management.
3. Responsible for regularly reviewing environmental management documents.
Department leaders
1. Responsible for organizing and leading the identification of environmental factors and greenhouse gas emission sources.
2. Responsible for establishing, implementing, and maintaining an environmental management system and greenhouse gas management documents in accordance with the requirements of ISO14064 standard.
3. Responsible for organizing and leading internal audits of environmental management.
4. Responsible for leading the coordination and management of internal and external environmental management operations within the enterprise.
5. Report the operation of environmental management to the top management.
Human Resources and Administration Department
1. Organize and implement the identification, summary, and evaluation of GHG emission sources.
2. Responsible for collecting, summarizing, calculating GHG emission data, compiling and managing reports.
3. Responsible for managing the writing, review, modification, and distribution of GHG management documents.
4. Responsible for organizing GHG internal audits and preparing and planning GHG management reviews.
5. Responsible for guiding various departments to carry out GHG inventory work.
6. Responsible for summarizing and registering changes to GHG related equipment.
7. Responsible for organizing and preserving documents and records.
Other departments
1. Do a good job in identifying GHG emission sources in our department.
2. Implement emission reduction projects and control GHG emissions in production and daily life processes.
3. Provide GHG inventory data records and a list of GHG related equipment for our department.
4. Complete the registration of changes to GHG related equipment in our department.
5. Complete internal and external audit work
Greenhouse gas emissions:
Organize activities related to emission reduction:
1、 Water saving management
1. The office formulates a water use plan for the management department based on the water use indicators issued by the Municipal Water Conservation Office.
2. The application for water supply for new or developed projects shall be submitted by the office and approved by the supervisor of the management department. Part time personnel are responsible for inspecting and repairing pipelines on the construction site to reduce waste caused by running, emitting, dripping, and leaking water.
3. Each unit should gradually implement water meter measurement according to the actual situation to reduce water resource waste.
2、 Energy saving management
1. Each distribution room in the electric field must have professional personnel responsible, establish a sound job responsibility system, carefully fill in operation records, and be responsible for the quality and safety of power supply.
2. The power load of office buildings, conference rooms, etc. should be controlled by separate switches. The person in charge of electricity in the above-mentioned places should check the energy-saving situation of people leaving the machine and turning off the lights when people leave at any time.
3. When updating equipment, all departments of the management department should consider phasing out high-energy mechanical and electrical equipment and strive to replace them with energy-saving technology new products.
4. It is strictly prohibited to privately connect electric furnaces and other electrical appliances.
3、 Relying on technology to accelerate technology development and promotion
Accelerate the research and development of energy-saving and emission reduction technologies, accelerate the industrialization demonstration and promotion of energy-saving and emission reduction technologies, accelerate the establishment of an energy-saving and emission reduction technology service system, promote the healthy development of the environmental protection industry, and strengthen international exchanges and cooperation. Strengthen energy-saving and environmentally friendly power dispatching. Accelerate the cultivation of energy-saving technology service system, promote contract energy management, and promote the industrialization of energy-saving services.
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