ackground: CJCHT Group requires all supply chain companies involved to conduct carbon footprint analysis, and use “technology” to break the tie, by employment of ZEO® low carbon solutions to reduce energy and paper consumption, which has been highly recognized as one of the best sustainability projects by the customer and third party verifications. ZEO® corrugated supply chain is growing rapidly with more and more companies joined and supported. Come and help us bring your supply chain greener and more sustainable at almost no cost incurred. 1. ZEO® Carbon Footprint Analysis: ClearCarbon instructed by Wal Mart has conducted a simplified carbon footprint product analysis on the ZEO® corrugate box to understand the reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with box light-weighting, where a standardized Carbon Footprint Model and Data have been established and verified for further applications. Overall, the ZEO® Box compared to the average cardboard box saves a lot of CO2e per year, by the carbon footprint analysis considered the relevant “life cycle” phases of the box, including: Raw material, Raw material transportation, Manufacturing of the box, and Distribution of the box. Details as attached Appendix 1. 2. ZEO® Carbon Neutral and Verification Process: a. Carbon Footprint analysis nd calculations: via the simplified carbon footprint model and data provided by ClearCarbon and Wal Mart, CJCHT/TMIT will assist supply chain corrugated companies to measure and manage associated carbon footprint (in a reduced manner) of the production order for corrugated boxes. b. Carbon Credit purchase: the required Carbon Credit to offset the carbon emissions per product order of ZEO® corrugated boxes will be purchased on open market by bidding for either the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism (CERs) or independent voluntary standards (VERs); a report of retired carbon credit usage to either end customer or the production plant will be issued by CJCHT/TMIT with certified and legalized number by CERs or VERs. c. Carbon Neutral and Labels: the retired or used VERs or CERs carbon credits to offset the associated corrugated boxes will be labeled via ZEO® stamp (as attached Appendix 2) with proper indications and legalized numbers hereon for due diligence check. 3. Q&A: (1) What is “Carbon Neutral?” Answer: “Carbon Neutral” or “Carbon Offset” refers to achieving net zero carbon emissions by balancing a measured amount of carbon released with an equivalent amount sequestered or offset, or buying enough carbon credits to make up the difference. ZEO® Carbon Netural further refers to reducing energy and material used in the corrugated boxes and offsetting the residual amount by a less number of carbon credits as a goal. (2) What is the difference between normal corrugated boxes and ZEO® boxes for Carbon Netural? Answer: Due to the light weighted and less energy used nature of ZEO® boxes, it is certified and exercised transparently that ZEO® boxes can provide a more cost saving scheme in pursuits of Carbon Netural practices. The ZEO® Carbon Footprint model provides a faster, easier and efficient calculation on Carbon Footprints and therefore facilitates the whole process of Carbon Netural, while providing numerous check-and-balance, order-by-order legalized numbers in place for accumulation and improvement later on. (3) Is the certification and legalization process used by ZEO® Carbon Netural “credible”? Answer: Yes. And it’s probably more credible than you can imagine. Unlike some Carbon Netural companies claiming a past-recorded offset and carbon neutral for probably several years’ ago emissions, ZEO® Carbon Netural is aiming at Current and On-going emissions generated per order base and is offsetting them by each true and genuine *CERs or *VERs carbon credits with transparently retired or used records. *the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism (CERs) and independent voluntary standards (VERs). *the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism (CERs) and independent voluntary standards (VERs).

Why we need a green guideline for packaging industry? Customers, product supply chains and governments can start to get efficient carbon index and management by this guidline. Corrugated Packaging Industry is a high energy consumption and high carbon emissions industry, where an urgent need is required for a proper industry guideline to lead the industry into suitable recognition and responsibility of green environment. Packaging is a crucial part of whole manufacturing process, and is easier to change subject to consumers’ awareness; the packaging industry shall start to establish industry green guideline and will enjoy more recognition and support from customers. READ MORE... Download PDF（Chinese and English version）

CJCHT-ZEO 正在做出新的可持續發展承諾。 總部位於上海的 CJCHT、ZEO、ZEO Greens、ZEO TAGS、ZEO PDQ 和 NANOZEO 的母公司宣布，已簽署基於科學的目標計劃 (SBTi) 1.5°C 的商業目標。 CJCHT（曦爵集團）已提交設定1.5°C科學碳目標，且經SBTi核准。 CJCHT可持續發展總監 Raymond Wang 說，「在 CJCHT-ZEO，我們致力於有目的地引領並承擔我們作為全球時尚品牌之家的責任，為我們的行業和我們的利益相關者帶來真正和持久的變革。」 ▲CJCHT提交設定1.5°C科學碳目標，已得到SBTi核准。

1. Standardized & Efficient Carbon Market: There are tremendous needs for trading between entities that emit CO2 and those that verifiably and permanently remove atmospheric CO2. It would create incentives for reducing carbon emissions. 2. Difficulties: There are no widely accepted methods for carbon accounting available or feasible, which make those transactions mistrusted and unviable. 3. Core Problems: From Stanford Doerr Sustainability School, “Carbon accounting needs to be based on the science of removing carbon from the atmosphere and sequestering it on land and in oceans. This requires rigorous quantification, uncertainty estimation, and measuring changes over time.” We see this as a clear guideline for our efforts and would try our best to make impacts within our eco system. 4. Resources: Research at Taiwan and other international Universities provides such a scientific foundation. By the help of our members and associated institutions, we are working on bringing together the resources from different stakeholders and starting dialogues for trial cases asap. 5. Initiatives: Non-profits like SSBTI.org is ideally suited to leverage the resources, to convene various business, universities, governments, and nonprofit stakeholders, and to help develop relevant methods and risk metrics to create carbon accounting standards. 6. Roles and Function: University or Government entity would not be best positioned to oversee a novel carbon accounting framework. Instead, to scale this approach, non-profit like SSBTI.org could potentially launch an international nonprofit collaborative initiative to enable COST-EFFECTIVE and STANDARIZED international trade in carbon-focused transactions. Edited and Drafted by Raymond Wang Executive Chairman of SSBTI.org, based on resources and initiatives from Stanford Doerr Sustainability School, Cornell University 2022 Eclectic Convergence Meeting, and Sustainability office of National Taiwan University.