Doing the right things the right way creates value for JinkoSolar and strengthens our position as a global solar PV industry leader. Deeply embedding corporate responsibility and a commitment to ethical behavior in all that helps us overcome headwinds and keep leading position in gross margin and profit even through the volatile time for the industry.
Xiande Li, Chairman of JinkoSolar
Highlights of 2017 achievements
EHS Report
We produce solar modules to drive a global transition towards a cleaner and more sustainable energy generation. At the same time, we continuously improve energy efficiency, reduce emissions, and conserve resources throughout our operations. JinkoSolar’ s strategy to achieve our environmental goals is a mix of to regulatory compliance, viable recycling solutions and pollution prevention processes, mitigation of environmental risks, instilling strong environmental culture, building a green supply chain, and fulfilling our corporate social responsibility. We also focus on improving the energy-efficiency performance of our products, and collaborating with our suppliers to develop innovative ways that technology can address long-term sustainability challenges.
2017 has been a generous year for us, as we not did only achieve record high shipments, but we also significantly improved year-over-year the key indicators of the Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) performance is based on. JinkoSolar continues to invest in state of the art production and testing equipment, engage in efficient resource consumption, pollution prevention, and continuously improve and streamline our company's EHS performance. JinkoSolar’s activities not only meets EHS requirements, but are also benchmarked against recognized international practices.
Cradle-to-Cradle certificate
JinkoSolar with First C2C Certificate in China
JinkoSolar, has been awarded in November, 2017 with the Cradle-to-Cradle (“C2C”) certificate by SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection, verification, and certification organization. This is the first time a C2C certificate has been issued in China.
The issue of the C2C certification represents the adherence to high environmental, health, and safety standard by JinkoSolar’s products and manufacturing processes, further affirming JinkoSolar’s efforts in promoting environmental and sustainable best practices within the solar industry.
What is Cradle-to-Cradle Certificate
The Cradle-to-Cradle (C2C) Certified Products Standard is a multi-attribute, continuous improvement methodology that evaluates products, systems and operations across five quality categories:
- Material health
- Material reutilization
- Renewable energy and carbon management
- Water stewardship
- Social fairness
SOLAR SCORECARD
The Solar Scorecard is based on SVTC’s annual survey of photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturers, as well as on prior survey responses, interviews, news stories, and publicly available data. The goal of the Scorecard is to enhance transparency around environmental health, safety, and sustainability issues for communities, workers, and the environment.
The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) envisions a safe and sustainable solar PV industry that:
- Takes responsibility for the environmental and health impacts of its products throughout their lifecycles, including adherence to a mandatory policy for responsible recycling.
- Implements and monitors equitable environmental and labor standards throughout product supply chains.
- Pursues innovative approaches to reducing and work towards eliminating toxic chemicals in PV module manufacturing.
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