Slides from Nancy Gillis, CEO, Green Electronics Council, presented at the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council's 2018 Summit in Minneapolis, MN.

1. GEC Purchasers Guide for
Addressing Labor and Human
Rights Impacts in IT Procurements
and
CSR criteria in new
EPEAT Computer & Displays
Category
Nancy Gillis, CEO, Green Electronics Council

2. WORKSHOPS
CUSTOMIZED
MODULES
COHORT
TRAINING
WEBINARS
WHO IS THE GREEN ELECTRONICS
COUNCIL?
ADVISORY
SERVICES
• The Green Electronics Council (GEC) is a mission driven
non-profit founded in 2006
• Our vision is a world in which only sustainable IT products
are designed, manufactured, and purchased
• Our flagship program is EPEAT, the leading ecolabel for IT
Products [Computers & Displays, Imaging Equipment,
Televisions, Mobile Phones, Servers]
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Institutional
Purchasers IT Brands
GEC
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3. THE GEC PURCHASER GUIDE SERIES
• For both public and private institutional purchasers
• Explains how to leverage procurement for
sustainability
• Addresses frustration felt by both purchasers and IT
companies:
– Purchaser uncertain on what questions and supporting
documentation they should ask for from their suppliers
– Producers receive confusing and duplicative questions and
surveys from purchasers
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4. GEC PURCHASER GUIDE DEVELOPMENT
PROCESS
1. Background Research
– Landscape analysis of existing regulations and examples of
procurement questions and contact clauses
– Review of existing audit tools and reporting frameworks
2. Interviews
Focus on normalizing current purchaser questions and
reflect existing industry practices
– Interviews with IT companies
– Interviews with institutional purchasers globally
3. Technical Committee
Experts in the topic being addressed
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5. GEC PURCHASER GUIDE FORMAT
• Identifies institutional
purchasers’ expectations
• Provides procurement
questions with examples of
baseline and best practice
performance
– Baseline expectations =
what companies are
currently doing
– Best practices = what
companies can and should
be doing
• Describes supporting
documentation purchasers can
expect
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Procurement
Question
Reflects purchaser expectations
about what IT companies can
and should be doing.
Baseline expectation Best practices
Activities that most IT
companies are
undertaking.
Examples of activities
that exceed the
baseline practices.
Supporting
Documentation
Types of documents that IT
companies are able to provide
to purchasers to demonstrate
baseline and best practices
are met.
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6. PURCHASER EXPECTATIONS ON SOCIAL
IMPACTS
Ten procurement questions addressing purchasers expectations
relating to:
Commitment to
addressing labor
and human rights
Supplier risk
screening
Assessing
suppliers
Corrective action
Continuous
improvement
Capacity building Reporting
External
collaboration
Responsible
sourcing
Raw materials
extraction
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PROCUREMENT QUESTIONS 1 - 5
1. Communicating Expectations: Does your company have a written
Supplier Code of Conduct or Supplier policy in place that addresses
these primary labor and human rights issues: child labor; forced labor;
working hours; wages; discrimination; health and safety; freedom of
association and collective bargaining and disciplinary practices/humane
treatment of workers?
2. Supplier Risk: Has your organization developed a process to identify
labor and human rights risks in your supply chain?
3. Assessing Suppliers: How is your company assessing your suppliers’
performance against your code of conduct or policy on labor and human
rights impacts?
4. Responsible Sourcing: How does labor and human rights
performance of suppliers integrate into the sourcing decisions of your
organization?
5. Corrective Action: How is your company using the outcomes of the
supplier risk screening and assessment process to ensure suppliers are
implementing corrective actions in a timely manner?
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ADDITIONAL PROCUREMENT QUESTIONS 6
- 106. Continuous Improvement: How is your company engaging with
suppliers to ensure continuous improvement in supplier
performance against your Code of Conduct or Supplier Policy?
7. Capacity Building: How is your company engaging with suppliers
to build their capacity for addressing human and labor rights
impacts?
8. Reporting: What steps is your company taking to publicly
communicate and/or report your progress on addressing labor and
human rights within your supply chain?
9. Raw Material Extraction: What steps are you taking to address
labor and human rights impacts during the extraction phase of
production?
10. External Collaboration: How are you collaborating with
external organizations – NGOs, research, advocacy, governments -
to address labor and human rights impacts in your or IT sector
supply chains?
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HOW ARE PRODUCTS RATED BY EPEAT?
• Products must meet all required criteria for inclusion
– Simply being registered in EPEAT indicates high
environmental performance
• Products are rated bronze, silver or gold based on the
number of optional criteria they meet
Meets <50%
Optional Criteria
Meets 50 – 75%
Optional Criteria
Meets > 75%
Optional Criteria
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10. EPEAT CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
CRITERIA
(2018 COMPUTER CATEGORY)
4.10 Corporate social responsibility
4.10.1 Socially responsible manufacturing
4.10.1.1 Optional – Socially responsible manufacturing: Labor
4.10.1.2 Optional – Socially responsible manufacturing: OHS
4.10.2 Conflict Minerals
4.10.2.1 Required – Public Disclosure regarding conflict minerals in
products
4.10.2.2 Optional – Participation in an in-region program that advances
responsible sourcing of conflict minerals
4.10.2.3 Optional – Smelter and refiner participation in OECD-aligned
third party mechanisms
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11. ADDITIONAL EPEAT SUPPLY CHAIN
CRITERIA
(2018 COMPUTER CATEGORY)
4.9 Corporate environmental performance of suppliers
4.9.1.2 Optional – Third party certified environmental management
system (EMS) for supplier manufacturing facilities
4.9.2.2 Optional - Corporate environmental reporting by suppliers
4.9.3.2 Optional – Energy management system/energy performance
improvement for suppliers
4.9.4.2 Optional – Renewable energy use by manufacturer's suppliers
4.1.10 Manufacturing chemicals
4.1.10.1 Optional- Reduce fluorinated gas emissions resulting from flat
panel display manufacturing
4.1.10.2 - Optional - Reduce F-GHG emissions resulting from
semiconductor manufacturing
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12. WHO USES EPEAT?
Widespread adoption and
repeated endorsement for over a
decade based on:
 Trust
 Credibility
 Ease of use in procurements
 Product availability - broad
range of brands available via
EPEAT
Thousands of public jurisdictions, dozens of national
governments, 300+ colleges and universities and hundreds
of private sector organizations in Hospitality, Finance,
Healthcare and other sectors specify EPEAT
EPEAT highlighted in countless laws, directives, policies, best-
practices, and guidance documents
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Global
EPEAT-registered
IT shipments
surpassed
One BILLION units
in 2016
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13. THANK YOU
Nancy Gillis
Chief Executive Officer
Green Electronics Council
ngillis@greenelectronicscouncil.org
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