ESG Report 2021

Promoting Low-carbon Development In the production and daily operations of the Group, consumption, but also minimise greenhouse gas the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions emissions and help slow down the rate of global include: i. direct greenhouse gas emissions, warming. including stationary combustion sources such as fuel During the Year, the Group focused on reducing combustion of boilers used for production and carbon emissions in the direction of energy heating, mobile combustion sources like vehicle fuel conservation. The Energy Conservation Office combustion, and use of refrigerants; ii indirect organised and launched activities for the Energy greenhouse gas emissions of energy, including Conservation Week to cultivate employees' purchased electricity; and iii other indirect awareness of energy conservation, eliminate energy greenhouse gas emissions, including the carbon waste, and achieve “energy conservation, emissions generated when employees are taking consumption reduction, pollution reduction and aircrafts for business trips, methane emitted from efficiency enhancement”. Tree planting is a way to the disposal of wastepaper, and indirect emission offset carbon emissions. Even if the effect cannot generated from water and sewage treatment. The be compared with active carbon reduction, it can Group has been adopting a multi-pronged approach take the effect of long-term absorption of carbon and striving to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. emissions. During the Year, the Group also held the The energy-saving and water-saving measures Tree Planting Day to contribute to the low-carbon implemented by Inner Mongolia Company, as well as development. various innovative energy-saving and emission- reduction projects can not only reduce energy . . Tree Planting Day The Party Committee of Inner Mongolia Company organised some young volunteers from Party members to carry out voluntary tree planting activities in living areas and office areas. The youth members of the Communist Party of China have worked together on shovels, excavation, seedling, filling and compaction of soil, and contributed their own strength to the construction of green communities with practical actions. The Tree Planting Day not only shows the federal unity, but also reduces carbon and adds green to the community. The tree planting has completed the planting of more than 300 peach t ree s , pl ums and ap r i cot s , demonstrated the vitality and building a beautiful federal. 64 Environmental, Social and Governance Report 2021 The United Laboratories International Holdings Limited