The Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE) is a non-profit environmental research organization registered and based in Beijing, China. Since its establishment in June 2006, IPE has dedicated itself to collecting, collating and analyzing government and corporate environmental information to build a database of environmental information. IPE's two platforms – the Blue Map website ...
IPE monitors, evaluates and scores the environmental departments of more than 120 major cities annually. Scores, which are based on the extent to which environmental information has been transparently provided to the public, have been improving markedly year to year, though regional disparities remain.
IPE aims to identify the new challenges and issues companies are facing, as well as to discover and promote best practices. The evaluation seeks to build common understanding among stakeholders, create an enabling environment for both Chinese and international companies to green their supply chains.
LS&Co. uses the IPE Blue Map environmental database to monitor our suppliers in China, all of which are registered to the database. We have also shared our supplier factory list and data with the IPE Green Supply Chain Map, which provides real-time performance data and historical trend information related to air emissions and wastewater discharge.