China Energy Engineering Group

No leading practices were identified for the company in the governance and strategy area.

No leading practices were identified for the company in the ecosystems and biodiversity area.

No leading practices were identified for the company in the social inclusion and community impact area.

Sustainability strategy and accountability 

China Energy Engineering Group discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts as well as the outcome of this process, in relation to its sustainability strategy. However, the company does not disclose group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain. The company does not report consistently against all its targets.  

Although China Energy Engineering Group discloses that the Social Responsibility Work Office and the Board of Directors is responsible for the implementation and oversight of its sustainability issues respectively, no evidence that the company has a sustainability strategy. No evidence was found that the company links performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. The company does not disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise regarding nature-related topics. 

Stakeholder engagement 

China Energy Engineering Group discloses an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities. The company discloses how often and through which channels it engages with various stakeholder groups. 

Lobbying 

China Energy Engineering Group does not report on its lobbying and advocacy practices on nature-related issues, nor whether these activities align with its sustainability strategy. 

Impact and dependencies assessment 

China Energy Engineering Group has not holistically assessed its impacts or how it depends on nature, including biodiversity. It has an opportunity to start such an assessment across its value chains, focused on quantification of its impacts or dependencies. 

Key areas and species 

China Energy Engineering Group does not disclose key species or areas important for biodiversity affected by its operations or suppliers. It has an opportunity to increase its transparency. 

Ecosystem conversion and restoration 

No evidence was found regarding China Energy Engineering Group’s efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation, or promote restoration. While the company discloses its practice of aquatic species proliferation and preservation, it remains unclear whether the restoration practices are widespread across all the company’s projects. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets. 

Resource exploitation and circularity 

No evidence was found regarding China Energy Engineering Group’s efforts to work towards a circular economy or which organisms it exploits. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets. Although the company discloses its practice of soil remediation project, it is unclear with the details and result of the project that improve soil health. The company does not disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices. 

Water 

China Energy Engineering Group demonstrates it is reducing water withdrawal in its own operations. However, the company does not disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations. The company does not report how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal.  

China Energy Engineering Group regularly reports on water pollution. However, the company does not report a decrease in water pollution. The company does not disclose its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality.  The company does not disclose targets to reduce water pollution. The company does not disclose a commitment to respect the right to water. The company does not disclose its processes for implementing preventive and corrective action plans for identified specific risks to the right to water and sanitation in its own operations. 

Solid and air pollution 

China Energy Engineering Group is reducing the production of hazardous waste. No evidence that the company reduces plastic use and waste in its own operations was found. The company does not report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal. The company reports regularly on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants. The company does not report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain. 

GHG emissions 

China Energy Engineering Group discloses its scope 1 and 2 emissions, but the amount increased compared to the previous year. The company does not disclose any other information on greenhouse gas emissions, nor has it set a time-bound reduction target. The company must immediately set a reduction target aligned with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5-degree trajectory. 

Invasive species 

China Energy Engineering Group has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations. 

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment

China Energy Engineering Group does not disclose a commitment to respecting local communities’ right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment or to zero tolerance for acts of violence, threats, intimidation or judicial harassment committed against land and environmental rights defenders. 

Indigenous peoples’ and land rights 

China Energy Engineering Group does not disclose a commitment to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights or land rights of local communities. 

While China Energy Engineering Group conducts a materiality/risk assessment to identify the main risks to the business, it has an opportunity to specify that it conducts human rights due diligence that includes a process for identifying human rights risks and impacts through its business relationships. The company has an opportunity to describe a process for assessing the human rights risks it has identified and to disclose what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. A description of this process would include how relevant factors are considered, such as geographical, economic and social factors. No evidence was found that the company has a global system to act on its salient human rights issues.  

While China Energy Engineering Group discloses the categories of stakeholders it engages with generally on sustainability issues, it is not clear if these stakeholders are those whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities. No evidence that the company provides examples of its engagement with stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities was found. 

While China Energy Engineering Group provides a publicly available statement regarding health and safety of workers, it is not considered to be a part of formal policy commitment. No evidence that the company has a publicly available statement of policy that expects its suppliers to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers was found. While the company states that it has established independent wage management system for determining the total amount of wages, it has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage. No evidence that the company describes how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates was found. No evidence that the company describes how it works to support the payment of a living wage by its suppliers was found.  

China Energy Engineering Group has an opportunity to disclose the coverage of collective bargaining agreements. The company has an opportunity to describe how it works to support the practices of its suppliers in relation to freedom of association and collective bargaining. 

China Energy Engineering Group has an opportunity to publish a global tax strategy and should assign responsibility for this strategy to an executive-level individual or body.  The company states that it has formulate a number of new systems of anti-corruption supervision, carried out anti-corruption ideological education, and implemented supervision and inspection of violations, yet it does not describe the process to identify its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. No evidence that the company includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships was found. The company does not disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document.