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  • Overall approach
    0/10
    • Overarching commitment on deforestation
      0/4
    • Signatory to an initiative tackling deforestation
      0/1
    • Awareness of the value of forests
      0/1
    • Deforestation as a business risk
      0/1
    • High-level management of deforestion
      0/1
    • Executive compensation linked to deforestation
    • Target to reduce emissions from land-use change
      0/1
    • Reporting on emissions from land-use change
      0/1
    • Disclosure of conservation activity
    • Disclosure of reforestation activity
    • Target to reduce emissions in scope 1/2
  • Commodity score
    10/90
    • Pulp & Paper
      10/90
      • Commitment Strength
        4/17
        • Commodity-specific deforestation commitment
          2/4
          • Commitment applies to all regions, suppliers and operation
            No
            0/2
            Commitment applies to all regions, suppliers and operation
            No
            0/2
            If no, what is excluded?: Subsidiary

            What subsidiaries are explicitly included?: Ts-Sanyou
            "Sanyou supports the protection of ancient and endangered forests. We assess our use of existing dissolving pulp to ensure that it is not sourced from ancient and endangered forests such as the Canadian and Russian Boreal Forests, Coastal Temperate Rainforests; tropical forests and peatlands of Indonesia, the Amazon and West Africa, and endangered species habitat. We eliminate sourcing dissolving pulp from controversial sources including companies that are logging forests illegally or from tree plantations established after 1994 through the conversion of natural forests... We will preference our source from forests that are sustainably managed, and certified to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or Sustainable Forest Initiative (SFI) or Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) certification systems, among which, preference is given to FSC certification and we mainly source from FSC certified materials."
            Open source document
          • Target date
            Current/achieved
            1/1
            Target date
            Current/achieved
            1/1
            What actions or steps are identified for time-bound implementation?: FSC Certification + Avoid sourcing from priority forest regions
            "Sanyou supports the protection of ancient and endangered forests. We assess our use of existing dissolving pulp to ensure that it is not sourced from ancient and endangered forests such as the Canadian and Russian Boreal Forests, Coastal Temperate Rainforests; tropical forests and peatlands of Indonesia, the Amazon and West Africa, and endangered species habitat. We eliminate sourcing dissolving pulp from controversial sources including companies that are logging forests illegally or from tree plantations established after 1994 through the conversion of natural forests... We will preference our source from forests that are sustainably managed, and certified to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or Sustainable Forest Initiative (SFI) or Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) certification systems, among which, preference is given to FSC certification and we mainly source from FSC certified materials."
            Open source document
          • Interim target date
            NA (target date current or achieved or 2023)
            0.5/0.5
            Interim target date
            NA (target date current or achieved or 2023)
            0.5/0.5
            What date is given for the interim milestone?: NA
            "Sanyou supports the protection of ancient and endangered forests. We assess our use of existing dissolving pulp to ensure that it is not sourced from ancient and endangered forests such as the Canadian and Russian Boreal Forests, Coastal Temperate Rainforests; tropical forests and peatlands of Indonesia, the Amazon and West Africa, and endangered species habitat. We eliminate sourcing dissolving pulp from controversial sources including companies that are logging forests illegally or from tree plantations established after 1994 through the conversion of natural forests... We will preference our source from forests that are sustainably managed, and certified to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or Sustainable Forest Initiative (SFI) or Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) certification systems, among which, preference is given to FSC certification and we mainly source from FSC certified materials."
            Open source document
        • Commitment to a traceable supply chain
          0/7.5
          • Commitment details
            No traceability commitment
            0/4
          • Commitment applies to all regions, suppliers and operation
            No
            0/2
          • Target date
            Post 2050 or no target date
            0/1
          • Interim target date
            No
            0/0.5
      • Associated Human Rights Abuses
        3/17
        • Labour rights in the supply chain
          No
          0/3
        • Inclusion of small-scale farmers
          No
          0/2
        • Gender equality in the supply chain
          No commitment
          0/2
        • Commitment to remediation
          No
          0/1
        • Commitment to test Free, Prior and Informed Consent
          Yes, and commits to not proceeding with these operations unless consent has been given by Indigenous peoples and local communities
          3/3
          Commitment to test Free, Prior and Informed Consent
          Yes, and commits to not proceeding with these operations unless consent has been given by Indigenous peoples and local communities
          3/3
          How far back in the supply chain does this commitment apply?: All
          "To do so, we request that our suppliers fully acknowledge the right of Indigenous People and rural communities to give or withhold their Free, Prior and Informed Consent before new logging rights are allocated or tree plantations are developed."
          Open source document
        • Commitment to respect customary rights to land, resources, and territory
          No
          0/3
        • Zero-tolerance approach to violence and threats
          No
          0/3
      • Implementation and Reporting
        3/56
        • Reporting proportion of compliant volumes
          0/0
        • Reporting is independently verified
          No
          0/2
        • Suppliers aligned with deforestation commitments across supply chain
          No
          0/3
        • Deforestation cut off date
          Yes, for all sourcing regions/operations
          2/2
          Deforestation cut off date
          Yes, for all sourcing regions/operations
          2/2
          What cut-off date is specified?: 1994
          "We eliminate sourcing dissolving pulp from controversial sources including companies that are logging forests illegally or from tree plantations established after 1994 through the conversion of natural forests."
          Open source document
        • Collaborative actions
          No
          0/2
        • Jurisdictional approach focused on sustainable land use
          No
          0/2
        • Risk assessments for forest risk
          No
          0/2
        • Operations assessed to comply with law
          No
          0/2
        • Accessible grievance mechanism
          No
          0/4
        • Report volumes of commodity sourced/used
          No reporting
          0/3
        • Monitor compliance for labour rights and FPIC
          No
          0/5
        • Monitor compliance for zero tolerance approach and customary rights
          No
          0/5
        • Downstream: Reporting suppliers
          No
          0/4
        • Downstream: Monitor compliance in supply chain
          No
          0/4
        • Downstream: Reporting hectares of deforestation
          No
          0/4
        • Downstream: Engagement with non-compliant suppliers
          Engage with suppliers but with no time-bound threat of exclusion
          1/2
          Downstream: Engagement with non-compliant suppliers
          Engage with suppliers but with no time-bound threat of exclusion
          1/2
          Does the company work with the non-compliant supplier to develop an implementation plan to remedy associated harms or non-compliance?: No

          Does the company engage non-compliant indirect suppliers in order to address and remedy non-compliance?: No

          What type of support does the company offer to its suppliers to help them achieve compliance with commitments?: NA

          Does the company commit to engage with rightsholders, Indigenous peoples and local communities when developing the implementation plan?: No

          What criteria does the policy specify for blacklisting or exclusion?: NA
          "Our dissolving pulp sourcing, including the subsidiaries of Sanyou will be in compliance with this policy. We will source our material through suppliers that are transparent, traceable and comply with this policy. If suppliers contravene these criteria, we will first engage them to change practices and then re-evaluate our relationship with them on whether to continue our collaboration if we find that the material is coming from sources that are prohibited by this policy."
          Open source document
        • Downstream: Disclosure of non-compliant suppliers
          No disclosure
          0/2
  • Commitment strength
    4/17
    Avg. score
  • Implementation and Reporting
    3/56
    Avg. score
  • Associated Human Rights Abuses
    3/17
    Avg. score

Profile

Tangshan Sanyou Chemical Industries are a chemicals company based in China. They are assessed for pulp and paper due to their manufacture of viscose, the company owns two viscose mills and owns one dissolving pulp mill and distributes these products globally.

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Diversified Chemicals, Textiles
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Collective Commitments
Consumer Goods Forum member
New York Declaration on Forests signatory

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