ESG Report 2022

Despite the ongoing pandemic in 2022, The United policies. Therefore, the Group always sees Laboratories persist in environment and ecology environmental protection as the top priority, and protection, mitigate climate change, and is c o n t i n u e s t o i mp l eme n t t h e c o r p o r a t e dedicated to pollution prevention and control, environmental policy of “Law-abiding Integrity, energy conservation and emission reduction. In Preventive Control, Environmental Protection, response to the national overall goal of “lucid Continuous Improvement, and Harmonious waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets”, Development”. Inner Mongolia Company actively The United Laboratories sternly comply with the responds to the national environmental protection concept of co-prosperity between enterprise policies, and strengthens environmental protection development and environmental protection, and is in its operation and production process during the dedicated to achieving the ultimate mission of Year to save energy and reduce carbon emissions, carbon neutrality through carbon emission fully cooperating with the Country to respond to the reduction from production, technology and challenges brought about by climate change. procedures, meanwhile, the Company is committed I n n e r Mo n g o l i a C omp a n y i s a mo d e r n to achieving carbon neutrality together with global comprehensive pharmaceutical factory integrating enterprises in the future without neglecting pharmaceutical intermediates and bulk medicines business operations. into one. Since the establishment of the plant, In coordination with the Country's reduction targets, environmental protection has been the first priority. the local government of Inner Mongolia launched It has continuously introduced new environmental the 14th Five-Year Plan for Addressing Climate protection technologies and new equipment to treat Change in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to wastewater and exhaust gas generated during the strengthen the collaborative control and efficiency production process, and implemented a number of improvement of pollution reduction and carbon key environmental protection projects during the emission, reinforce the coordinated promotion of Year to fully support the construction of ecological greenhouse gas emission reduction and pollution civilization and green technology innovation. Inner prevention, establish and improve the working Mongolia Company has passed the ISO14001: mechanism of pollution reduction and carbon 2015 “Environmental management system - emission, and promote the overall integration of Requirements with guidance for use” certification. climate change response and ecological A l l c on s t r u c t i on p r o j e c t s ha v e ob t a i ned environment. As the production base with the environmental assessment approval and passed largest scale and the greatest production of the the environmental protection completion Group, the operation and development of Inner acceptance. Mongolia Company is closely related to the above 8.1 Steps Towards Carbon Neutrality In response to the Paris Agreement and the and progressive, and cannot be achieved national goal of achieving carbon neutrality by overnight, so as to avoid affecting the Group's 2060, the Group has promoted a series of carbon development in other aspects. During the Year, the reduction efforts during the year, hoping to align Group was determined to set up strategies and with the pace of the Country and reach carbon peak annual targets in four directions to gradually reduce by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. The Group and offset carbon emissions and achieve carbon regards net zero emission as its ultimate goal and neutrality. believes that carbon reduction must be persistent 62 Environmental, Social and Governance Report 2022 The United Laboratories International Holdings Limited