ESG Report 2022

The Group attaches great importance to the “Saving Electricity, Starting from Scratch”, environmental governance of its subsidiaries, Zhuhai Company continued to advocate water and conducts environmental audits on the and electricity conservation, and has zero Group’s relevant operation locations to reduce tolerance for waste. It actively carried out i m p a c t a n d p r o m o t e e c o l o g i c a l a n d electricity and water conservation activities, and environmental construction. The Group has advocated a fashionable and civilized green and undergone annual compliance audits on the low-carbon lifestyle. The Group also realises the environmental management systems at the Inner recycling of resources through the circular Mongolia and Zhuhai Company, which both economy industrial chain. Zhuhai Company also locations have obtained the ISO 14001:2015 promotes the classification of domestic waste, environmental management system certification , strengthens the recycling of resources, and accounting for 33% of the group's business cultivates employees’ daily habits of waste premises. Zhuhai Company has also established classification. To cope with climate change, the an annual toxic emission plan named the Group has strengthened the prevention and "Hazardous Waste Management Plan". Measures control measures for extreme weather events, that can reduce the generation of toxic emissions strengthened environmental education and have been set, realising emission reduction at training to enhance the Group’s resilience, and to source, implementing environmental protection establish the company’s overall environmental policies and achieving higher environmental culture. At the same time, Inner Mongolia goals, becoming a "green factory" and actively Company also held a tree planting festival, promoting green production. With the expansion planting more than 280 trees to support low- of the Group’s development scale, the amount of carbon development and strive to build a green electricity and water consumption also increased community. inevitably. During the Year, with the slogan of 8.3.1 Green Factory Adopt cleaner production to minimise generation of pollutants Enhance the Company’s resource efficiency, including reduction in the average energy consumption per product and water and raw materials consumption, bringing the Company’s resource efficiency to a leading level High level of waste recycling and reuse Achieve an advanced level in intensive use of land, cleaner production, utilisation of wastes and low carbon energy sources Inner Mongolia Company is a national “Green normalise green factory operation mode and Factory”, which vigorously promotes cleaner green development management, hoping to production, improves production processes, reach the advanced level of the industry in the formulates emergency plans for environmental various objectives of green factories. In order to eme r g e n c i e s a n d p r o v i d e s t r a i n i n g o n e f f e c t i v e l y m a n a g e a n d m a i n t a i n t h e environmental protection. It actively promotes characteristics of green factories, the Company e n v i r o nme n t a l p r o t e c t i o n , a n d g r a d u a l l y has implemented assessment and reward incorporates the concept of green production into methods for employees to carry out green its corporate culture. Inner Mongolia Company environmental protection work in an orderly and has established an implementation plan for the efficient manner. The Group will guarantee the construction of green factories. It has invested a investment of funds in Inner Mongolia Company, lot of resources in the realms of “intensive land strengthen technological innovation, and ensure use, turning raw materials into harmless, cleaner that production technology, equipment, inputs of production, waste recycling, and low-carbon energy resources, products, environmental e n e r g y ” t o s y s t e m a t i c a l l y f o r m u l a t e protection emissions, performance, etc. all meet corresponding work measures and targets, the standards of national green factories. 78 Environmental, Social and Governance Report 2022 The United Laboratories International Holdings Limited