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Zero-carbon emissions in 2050 is a global consensus. Yuanta Financial Holding Company (FHC) exerts sustainable impact, strengthens climate management to achieve sustainable financial goals, implements sustainable supplier management, influences other enterprises to follow the low-carbon trend, and drives the green production chain. As a result, Yuanta FHC has been recognized as an “A” leader in the Leaderboard by CDP’s Supplier Engagement Rating (SER), an international carbon disclosure authority, ranking among the top eight percent (8%) of 15,000 rated companies worldwide.

For three consecutive years, Yuanta FHC has been awarded leader recognition of A in the climate change questionnaire initiated by CDP. The SER is based on the climate change questionnaire and examines the extent to which companies are connected to climate change issues in their upstream and downstream, supply chain, products and services. Yuanta FHC advocates green procurement and gives priority to the purchase of products with energy-saving and carbon-reducing labels, and clearly sets up a supplier evaluation process that includes environmental sustainability goals, greenhouse gas inventories, and various water and waste-saving actions as evaluation indicators. Yuanta FHC conducts on-site inspections of high-risk suppliers through a supplier self-assessment mechanism. Furthermore, we evaluate major suppliers according to the seven core themes of ISO 20400 sustainable procurement guidelines, and at the same time, we have launched a number of collaborative actions to provide risk analysis and feedback on issues such as legal compliance and sustainable low-carbon transformation in response to the environment. We praise A-grade suppliers and strengthen counseling and tracking for C-grade suppliers.

Take Yuanta Bank’s zero-carbon credit card as an example, through the negotiation of upstream, midstream, and downstream suppliers for systematic carbon reduction management, each credit card has a carbon footprint of approximately 850g according to ISO standards. We have also obtained the Carbon Label and Carbon Reduction Label from Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Administration, and we continue to lead the industry in providing major financial services, including Yuanta Securities’ “Mr. Investor” APP and Yuanta Bank’s “Mobile Banking” APP, with product carbon footprint and carbon neutrality verification. We have also purchased renewable energy credits for carbon neutrality, reinforcing the important role of financial services in the global low-carbon transition. We are a leader in helping industries transform, and also a key player in driving green and carbon reduction investments.

In order to assist suppliers to follow the international trend of carbon reduction, Yuanta FHC has held supplier conferences for five consecutive years. We will hold our first supplier conference of the year on the 28th of March, with the theme of “Building a Green-Energy Enterprise.” We have invited Ernst & Young to share the latest carbon fee trends and will also give special recognition to our outstanding supplier partners who have worked together with Yuanta FHC in 2022 on green initiatives such as green power, energy saving, and advocating for the Earth’s lights to be switched off for one hour (Earth Hour). Under the trend of climate change, Yuanta FHC strives to be a green pioneer. Through the platform of the supplier conference, we actively exchange ideas and look forward to doing our part for environmental sustainability with our supplier partners.