In the context of global warming, it has become the consensus of the international community to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and actively respond to climate change. On 22 September 2020, President Xi Jinping made an important commitment of China's "3060" goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality at the general debate of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, making it a shared responsibility of governments, businesses and society as a human community with a shared future to work together towards a decarbonized future.
Response to climate change is one of the most important issues for Mindray. Our corporate responsibility drives us to constantly measure the effectiveness of our sustainability and to continuously enhance our corporate resilience through practical green and low-carbon practices, while continuing to strengthen our climate change management awareness and actions.
To systematically manage risks and opportunities related to climate change, the environmental management sub-committee under the ESG Executive Committee of Mindray is responsible for identifying risks and opportunities related to climate change, suggesting goals (including carbon goals) and action plans, etc.
Coping with extreme weather
Mindray strives to improve the business continuity capability of the supply chain under extreme weather, and adopts multisite and multi-supplier arrangements for key raw materials and multi-site arrangements for manufacturing capacity and product warehouses. We have also formulated disaster recovery strategies for data information storage. In the construction of manufacturing bases and R&D centers, Mindray will adopt earthquake, wind and flood resistant design by taking into account local natural disaster risks and corresponding building codes.
To build up the response capabilities to physical risks driven by extreme weather events, Mindray has formulated and implemented internal management documents such as the Emergency Management Procedure and the Natural Disaster Response Plan, which regulate the prevention, monitoring and early warning measures in response to extreme weather events, and specify the emergency response and
rescue measures and aftermath work plan for weather disasters.
In addition, we conduct regular emergency drills to enhance our staff's understanding of emergency procedures and practical skills to ensure that we can respond efficiently and effectively to extreme weather events.
Mindray’s main production base, Guangming Manufacturing Center, is located in an area with a relatively high incidence of typhoons. In order to improve Guangming Manufacturing Center's capacity to prevent typhoons and foods and minimize the damage caused thereby, Guangming Manufacturing Center conducted typhoon and food emergency drill in April 2021, which included preparatory work before the arrival of typhoons and rainstorms, patrol and emergency work during typhoons and rainstorms, aftermath work after typhoons and rainstorms.
Carbon emissions and energy management
Mindray's total carbon emissions arising from its own operations amounted to 55,765.32 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. Currently, Mindray is actively exploring and formulating carbon goals, and further mapping out a pathway to reduce carbon emissions based on our operating scenarios.
In addition, we strictly follow relevant laws and regulations in the countries and regions where Mindray operate such as the Energy Conservation Law of the People's Republic of China, formulate and implement internal regulations such as the Resources Management Regulation, attach great importance to optimizing the structure of energy consumption, and implement energy saving and emission reduction initiatives. At the same time, our energy management system was established by adopting the world-leading energy management standard ISO 50001. We also arrange specialized staff to be responsible for energy management, require each project to formulate energy saving and emission reduction plans, actively monitor energy consumption data and follow up on abnormalities in a timely manner to drive Mindray's energy-saving operations.
We further optimized and constructed the existing energy management platform to reduce energy demand at source by replacing high energy-consuming equipment with energy-saving equipment and adopting energy-saving processes, such as replacing fuel vehicles with electric vehicles and replacing thermal power with clean energy. At the same time, before introducing a new equipment or facility, we will assess whether its energy efficiency indicators meet the Mindray’s requirements, to reduce carbon emissions while meeting productivity demands.
2021, Mindray's new R&D building was installed with ice storage central air-conditioning. Boasting excellent peak-shifting and valley-filling capabilities, ice storage technology is an important technical tool for electricity demand-side management with the following characteristics:
• Balancing day and night peak and valley power loads on the power grid, improving the utilization of power plants, transmission and distribution systems, and reducing one-o_ energy consumption such as coals;
• The air conditioning system can be used more flexibly, and ice can be melted for cooling without turning on the refrigeration mainframe under small loads such as holidays and rest days, which avoids inefficient operation of the refrigeration mainframe and achieve obvious energy-saving effects;
• Rational utilization of peak-valley electricity price differences to significantly reduce operating costs on air conditioning system, etc.
In the future, we will further enhance the construction of our energy management platform to implement intelligent management on major energy-using equipment and facilities, and make further plans to introduce energy-saving equipment such as energy-saving transformers and radar sensor lights for the purpose of reducing energy consumption.
