Developing a sustainable business
Analysis of Lenovo’s sustainable principles
This article was authored by Lenovo.
Lenovo, the global technology powerhouse, is fulfilling its bold vision to deliver smarter technology for all. Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest distributor of PCs by expanding into new growth areas of infrastructure, mobile, solutions, and services. This transformation, together with Lenovo’s world-changing innovation, is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and sustainable digital society for everyone, everywhere.
Lenovo is committed to providing a brighter, more sustainable future by helping to mitigate climate change. The company is proud of its work with the Science Based Targets initiative to establish goals that support its vision to reach net-zero by 2050. Lenovo’s 2030 science-based targets include reducing scope 1 and 2 emissions by 50 percent and decreasing emissions intensity throughout the value chain by 25 percent in three main areas - products, suppliers, and transportation.
Reducing scope 3 emissions is an important part of Lenovo’s efforts to mitigate climate change. Unlike scope-1 and scope-2 emissions, scope-3 emissions (especially upstream transportation) are not solely controlled by logistics operations but are highly impacted by its value chain stakeholders. To reduce scope-3 emissions, companies need to identify and prioritize the categories and stakeholders most important to them. To prioritize categories, set baselines, and make progress, companies must take a coordinated approach to stakeholder engagement.
To engage stakeholders and make meaningful progress toward Lenovo’s vision for net-zero emissions, Lenovo Global Logistics has set a philosophy with the following principles:
Low-carbon transport: The company continued its progress in adopting low-carbon transport solutions. Ocean freight to EMEA increased more than 15%; Ro/Ro shipping replaced more than half of the emergent air traffic across Asia-Pacific and; more than 97% of total ISG shipments are now transported by road into North America and China.
Low-carbon fuel: In January 2022, Lenovo was one of the first IT hardware companies to commit to 100% carbon-neutral air freight, committing 20 tons of PCs and laptops per week from Shanghai (PVG) to Frankfurt (FRA) in flights powered entirely by sustainable aviation fuel.
Non-polluting air freight using sustainable aviation fuel
In June 2022, Lenovo became the first technology company exporting from China to deploy Maersk’s ECO Delivery® services for ocean movements.
Utilization and consolidation: For the transport of international shipments from factory to airport, Lenovo has increased effective consolidation from its flagship HeFei plant, and over 745 FTL units were avoided in FY21/22.
Stakeholders’ engagement: Lenovo has embarked on a mission to engage with end consumers to help them understand the environmental impact of their choices while helping to proactively shape consumer behavior. Lenovo logistics worked together with Lenovo’s International Sales Organization through the company’s L360 Circle program to host sustainability workshops with customers on climate change mitigation and Value Chain Optimization.
Lenovo Global Logistics also works with its suppliers to translate customer requirements into actions and develop collaborative goals for carbon reduction. These are measured through a comprehensive sustainability performance scorecard and achievements recognised through an annual award program.
Lenovo is extremely proud of its association with Green Freight Asia and becoming the first manufacturing company accredited with 3-leafs for Lenovo China and the first shipper to gain 4-leaf accreditation for Lenovo Australia.
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