Leverage is a mission-driven company. Its original intention was to help Chinese companies integrate into the global supply chain more conveniently, responsibly and confidently.

As an international third-party technical service company, Leverage has always provided services to global customers with an honest, transparent and responsible service concept. Since its inception, we have been engaged in services related to sustainable development, including but not limited to audits, inspections, training, SCORE corporate sustainable development projects, ISO management system certification, SA8000 social responsibility audits, mystery visitor services, OCI marine plastic recycling certification, water risk assessments, sustainable development management system construction, ESG report preparation, ESG rating improvement, product carbon footprint accounting, organizational carbon verification, carbon neutrality solutions and other sustainable development solutions. We always hope to help customers integrate sustainable development with business value and achieve their sustainable development operations.

As the founder of Leverage and chairman of the Sustainable Development Committee, Mr. Qu has been actively leading team members to carry out projects related to sustainable development such as compliance, ESG and dual carbon, constantly creating value for customers and striving to provide customers with sustainable development value.

From the perspective of the company itself, Leverage has built a clear sustainable development and climate governance structure. The board of directors is the highest governance unit for the company's sustainable development and climate issues, responsible for supervision and decision-making.

From the perspective of the company itself, Leverage has built a clear sustainable development and climate governance structure. The board of directors is the highest governance unit for the company's sustainable development and climate issues, responsible for supervision and decision-making.

Leverage's Sustainable Development Committee is directly under the company's board of directors and is composed of General Manager Mr Qu and heads of relevant departments. It is the leading unit of the sustainable development strategy and assists in integrating the value concept of sustainable development into the company's business strategy. Its functions include supervising and managing the company's overall sustainable development issues and risks and opportunities related to climate change, regularly making decisions and reviewing the company's short-, medium- and long-term goals and performance indicators for sustainable development and climate change strategies, regularly making decisions and reviewing the planning and implementation results of related work, supervising the company's management of potential impacts on sustainable development and climate change, and reviewing potential opportunities and directions in sustainable development policies and market transformation to enhance the company's operational management indicators and sustainable development resilience.

Leverage regularly discloses the company's sustainable development and climate action progress and performance to relevant stakeholders through the company's annual ESG sustainable development report and carbon neutrality roadmap action report.

The methodology of enterprises practicing business for good can include the following aspects:

1.Develop a clear vision and values: clarify your business for good vision and core values, and incorporate them into corporate culture and strategic planning. This helps to build a clear guide to guide enterprises to actively fulfill their social responsibilities in business operations.

2.Integrate business for good into the business model: regard business for good as part of the core business, and incorporate social and environmental factors into business decisions and operations. This can include improving supply chain management, promoting product innovation, and improving resource efficiency.

3.Set quantifiable goals and indicators: set quantifiable business for good goals and indicators to measure and evaluate their own performance. These goals and indicators should be consistent with the core business of the enterprise and the expectations of key stakeholders.

4.Establish an effective management and monitoring mechanism: establish an effective business for good management and monitoring mechanism to ensure that business for good practices are effectively implemented and continuously improved. This can involve establishing the company's environmental management system, social responsibility reporting mechanism, internal and external audits, etc.

5.Cultivate employee participation and sense of responsibility: cultivate employees' participation and sense of responsibility, and encourage them to actively participate in business for good practices. This can be done through training, communication and reward mechanisms to promote employee participation and contribution.

6.Establish partnerships: Companies can establish partnerships with stakeholders, social organizations and government agencies to jointly promote business for good practices. This can include collaborating on social projects, jointly addressing environmental challenges, and promoting the formulation of policies and industry standards.

7.Improve transparency and strengthen communication: Companies should maintain their own transparency, communicate with stakeholders in a timely manner and disclose the progress and results of business for good practices. This helps build trust and consensus and enhance the company's reputation and image.

In summary, the above points can help companies actively fulfill their social responsibilities in business operations, practice business for good, and thus promote sustainable development and the realization of shared value.

Based on our own services and industry influence, we began to benchmark the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2018, build our own sustainability team, innovate our services, and successively launch sustainability related services such as compliance, ESG, and dual carbon.

We continue to develop sustainable products and services, improve our own sustainability practices, and help our customers practice the integration of sustainability and business, and promote industry partners to work together to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Leverage had promoted the practice and development of ESG in the industry and exerts influence in three main aspects:

1. Standard Promotion

As a practitioner of sustainable development, we actively participate in the construction of sustainable development-related standards and actively participate in the drafting of several sustainable development-related standards, such as:

Guidelines for Compliance Evaluation of Inspection and Testing Institutions

Professional Skill Standards for Enterprise Compliance Engineers

Sustainable Development of Cities and Communities Management and Implementation Rules for Sustainable Development of Small Towns

ESG Evaluation of Logistics Enterprises

Guidelines for the Preparation of Corporate ESG Environmental, Social and Governance Reports

Enterprise ESG Environmental, Social and Governance Reporting Evaluation Criteria

Guidelines for the Preparation of Corporate Carbon Neutrality Roadmap Action Reports

Guidelines for the Evaluation of Corporate Carbon Neutrality Roadmap Action Reports

Plastic Recycling Certification Standard of River and Sea

Guidelines for Recycling Traceability and Carbon Emission Reduction Accounting of Waste Plastics from Marine Fishing Operations, etc

In the future, we will also actively promote the application of ESG related standards and promote more enterprises to carry out responsible practices.

2. Service promotion

In the process of standard SDGs, we actively cooperate with brand retailers and other relevant parties, through our certification, audit, training, consulting and other services, in the field of social responsibility, environment, human rights, business ethics and other fields to help supervise and upgrade more than 3,000 enterprises, interview or research more than 70,000 people, training and promotion of more than 10,000 people. We also recommend many companies to join the UNGC to actively implement the SDGs goals and the Ten UN Principles.

3. Promition in Activities

We jointly organize sustainable development seminars, trainings, forums and other activities with our partners to promote the dissemination and practice of sustainable development concepts:

In January 2022, we had participated in the exchange activities of the Yangtze River Delta Green and low-carbon Development Action Community

In April 2022, we launched the SA8000 Corporate Social Responsibility online training course

In June 2022, we were invited to participate in the online Federation Global Compact Leaders Summit

In September 2022, we conducted centralized training on corporate sustainability (SCORE) for suppliers in Yiwu and launched a greenhouse gas verifier course training in Shanghai.

In October 2022, Mr. Qu gave a keynote speech at the China Sustainable Fashion Summit and was also invited by Jianwei Law Firm to share knowledge on ESG compliance.

In November 2022, I participated in the UNGC Corporate Accelerator Ten Questions sharing

In December 2022, I was invited to attend the 2022 Annual CSR Conference of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai

In December 2022, I was invited to attend the 6th UNIDO Global Science and Technology Innovation Conference and was awarded the title of “Carbon Neutrality Global Action Partner”

We actively disseminate knowledge, concepts and good practices on sustainable development such as compliance, responsible supply chain, ESG and dual carbon through guest sharing or training courses at the above events, aiming to promote responsible practices among relevant stakeholders and contribute to the sustainable development of enterprises and society.

As a practitioner and disseminator of sustainable development, Leverage not only demonstrates responsible sustainable development good practices to relevant stakeholders through its own actions, but also promotes brands, retailers and suppliers upstream and downstream of the supply chain through its own products and services, actively manages and improves the resilience of the supply chain.

We have been spreading our sustainable development influence by participating in relevant practical activities and promoting it on the official account and official website: we initiated the establishment of the Public Welfare Finance Alliance GSFN to practice public welfare finance and lead capital to good; I also led the team to participate in the first UNGC China "SDG Innovator" competition and won the first prize; our team members also participated in the UNGC's first Gender Equality and Climate Ambition Enterprise Accelerator Project.

As a sharing guest at events such as the 2022 China Sustainable Fashion Summit, the 3rd Global Plant-Based Industry Conference and Carbon Neutrality Charity Forum, the 2023 China Social Enterprise and Impact Forum, the 8th Global Petrochemical Innovation Summit, the 2nd Southern Weekend ESG Forum, and the First Financial Zero Carbon Summit, I have been working hard to spread the knowledge, concepts and good practices of sustainable development such as compliance, responsible supply chain, ESG and dual carbon.

In order to promote the construction of sustainable development standards with Chinese characteristics, as the co-leader of the Sustainable Development Standards Project Group of the Shanghai Federation of Industrial Economics, I initiated and promoted the drafting of standards such as "Guidelines for the Preparation of Corporate ESG Environmental, Social and Governance Reports", "Corporate ESG Environmental, Social and Governance Report Evaluation Criteria", "Corporate Carbon Neutrality Roadmap Action Report Preparation Guidelines", "Corporate Carbon Neutrality Roadmap Action Report Evaluation Criteria", and "Jianghai Plastic Recycling Certification Standards", and am committed to promoting the sustainable development of supply chain stakeholders through industry influence.

Mr. Qu Weifeng is a practitioner and promoter who is passionate about sustainability. In 2020, as one of the 30 representatives of Chinese entrepreneurs, he signed the "Declaration on Reshaping Global Cooperation" of the United Nations Business Compact, striving to promote ten principles in human rights, labor standards, environmental protection, anti-corruption, etc., fulfilling social civic obligations, and standardizing industry standards. He has always taken practical actions to fulfill his social responsibilities and obligations, promote the cause of peace and development, and contribute to the development of the social community.

Mr. Qu also actively participates in social practices, including but not limited to: sharing low-carbon related information on Shanghai World Cities Day, bringing health and safety knowledge to campus, participating in WWF's One Earth monthly donation activities, participating in various online sustainable development sharing activities, participating in UNICF's child aid monthly donation activities, and establishing the  "Lai" Responsibility Care Committee.