ESG Report 2021

2021 is the first year of China's 14th Five-Year Plan. related to the above policies. Therefore, the Group It is also a crucial year for actuating the synergy and always sees environmental protection as the top efficiency enhancement of pollution reduction and priority, and continues to implement the corporate carbon emission, promoting the comprehensive environmental policy of “Law-abiding Integrity, green transformation of economic and social Preventive Control, Environmental Protection, development, and achieving the improvement of Continuous Improvement, and Harmonious ecological environment quality, from quantitative to Development”. Inner Mongolia Company actively qualitative. At the 26th Conference of Parties to the responds to the national environmental protection United Nations Framework Convention on Climate policies, and strengthens environmental protection in Change, governments around the world discussed its operation and production process during the Year global topics such as climate change response plans to save energy and reduce carbon emissions, fully and actions. President Xi Jinping also expressed to cooperating with the Country to respond to the the United Nations that China will strive to reach the challenges brought about by climate change. peak of carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve Inner Mongolia Company is a modern comprehensive carbon neutrality by 2060. pharmaceutical factory integrating pharmaceutical In coordination with the Country's reduction targets, intermediates and bulk medicines into one. Since the the local government of Inner Mongolia launched the establishment of the plant, environmental protection 14th Five-Year Plan for Addressing Climate Change has been the first priority. It has continuously in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to strengthen introduced new environmental protection the collaborative control and efficiency improvement technologies and new equipment to treat wastewater of pollution reduction and carbon emission, reinforce and exhaust gas generated during the production the coordinated promotion of greenhouse gas process, and implemented a number of key emission reduction and pollution prevention, environmental protection projects during the Year to establish and improve the working mechanism of fully support the construction of ecological pollution reduction and carbon emission, and civilisation. Inner Mongolia Company has passed the promote the overall integration of climate change ISO14001: 2015 “Environmental management response and ecological environment. As the system-Requirements with guidance for use” production base with the largest scale and the certification. All construction projects have obtained greatest production of the Group, the operation and environmental assessment approval and passed the development of Inner Mongolia Company is closely environmental protection completion acceptance. In response to the Paris Agreement and the national progressive, and cannot be achieved without any goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2060, the urgency, so as to avoid affecting the Group's Group has promoted a series of carbon reduction development in other aspects. During the Year, the efforts during the year, hoping to align with the pace Group was determined to set up strategies and of the Country and reach carbon peak by 2030 and annual targets in five directions to gradually reduce carbon neutrality by 2060. The Group regards net and offset carbon emissions and achieve carbon zero emission as its ultimate goal and believes that neutrality. carbon reduction must be persistent and STEPS TO CARBON NEUTRALITY 62 Environmental, Social and Governance Report 2021 The United Laboratories International Holdings Limited