Korea on August 11, 2021 – Samsung Electronics today unveiled Galaxy for the Planet, the sustainability platform for its Mobile Communications Business powered by its scale, innovation and spirit of open collaboration, to take tangible climate actions across its business. Samsung has established an initial set of targets to be reached by 2025 to reduce its environmental footprint and lessen resource depletion from production to disposal of its Galaxy products.
“We believe that everyone has a role to play in providing innovative solutions that protect the planet for generations to come. Samsung understands our efforts need to match our scale, our influence and the magnitude of the entire Galaxy ecosystem around the world,” said TM Roh, President and Head of Mobile Communications Business, Samsung Electronics. “Galaxy for the Planet is an important step in our journey toward creating a more sustainable world, and we will do so with the openness, transparency and collaboration that drives everything we do.”
Samsung believes the integration of sustainable practices across each stage of production is crucial to minimizing environmental impact and building a better future for communities around the world and the next generation of innovators. Samsung will work to achieve its initial goals by 2025, and it will aim to evolve its commitments to address new challenges beyond 2025
To foster a more circular economy, Samsung is investing in new and innovative eco-conscious materials for its products. With the goal of using recycled material across all new mobile products by 2025, Samsung will use various recycled materials within its products, taking their strength, aesthetics and durability into consideration.
Samsung is working towards the full elimination of single use plastics from product packaging by 2025 – reducing, removing and replacing unnecessary resources and materials traditionally used in device packaging and incorporating eco-conscious solutions.
Samsung is prioritizing energy-saving technology that increases energy efficiency and reduces power consumption. Samsung has successfully reduced the standby power consumption across all smartphone chargers3 to 0.02W, which is among the most energy efficient in the mobile industry. To build on this progress, Samsung will work to achieve zero power standby consumption of smartphone chargers, targeting reduction to below 0.005W by 2025.
Samsung is minimizing waste generated at its mobile worksites, with the commitment to divert all waste from landfill by 2025. Samsung will also work to reduce e-waste on a global scale by optimizing the product lifecycle, improving product design processes, and through initiatives like Galaxy Upcycling, Certified Re-Newed, and Trade-In programs.
Samsung will continue to discover new ways to address the climate crisis and expand its role in accelerating progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The company is dedicated to reporting progress transparently and working with industry peers and partners throughout its sustainability journey.
“Samsung is committed to creating solutions that enable a better future for our people and our planet. However, we know we cannot do this alone, and the collective fight for the planet is not a competition,” said Stephanie Choi, SVP & Head of Marketing of the Mobile Communications Business at Samsung Electronics. “We strive for collaboration in everything we do, and our strategic partnerships across sectors, industries and markets enable us to scale positive impact around the world – helping us achieve a more sustainable future.”
Samsung’s products are thoughtfully designed to minimize the impact on the environment during their entire lifecycle – including power-efficient semiconductor chips, sustainable packaging, energy-saving technology and the ability to upcycle old devices. To view Samsung’s sustainability progress, check out the 2021 Sustainability Report.
Hochiminh City, 23rd July 2021 – With the desire to join hands in performing the Covid-19 prevention and control program to protect people health, Mondelez Kinh Do Vietnam has committed to donate 3 billion VND (130.000 USD) to the National Covid-19 Vaccine Fund, contributed through Vaccine Fund of three provinces including Ho Chi Minh City (1,3 billion VND), Binh Duong province (1 billion VND) and Hung Yen province (700 million VND). The donation will be used for vaccination for people in Vietnam.
Mondelez Kinh Do continues to bring new trends, tastes, and experiences to Vietnamese consumers that are consistently delicious, carefully made, and beautifully presented, enhancing family moments amidst COVID-19 Mondelez Kinh Do continues to make mooncakes with innovative and sustainable packaging
Thousands of meal sets and essential goods have been delivered to doctors and healthcare staff by C.P. Vietnam with the heartfelt wish to support the country's fight against the pandemic.
HCMC, July 26, 2021 - This is a stressful time across the country, especially in Ho Chi Minh City since the COVID-19 epidemic appeared in Viet Nam, with the spirit of mutual development, Phu Nhuan Jewelry Joint Stock Company (PNJ) has launched the "Vong Tay Viet" campaign, in which the "0 dong" mini supermarket is the first meaningful activity opened on June 26 at Hiep Binh Phuoc Culture and Sports Center (Thu Duc).
C.P. Vietnam's business activities always aim to support the community both materially and spiritually through projects throughout our business activities. One of the outstanding projects is "Red Journey - Voluntary Blood Donation" first held in 2009. Starting from organizing blood donation within the company including leaders and employees, then expanding the scale to organize and advocate for employees' families, customers, partners, youth, students and armed forces and related departments.
Quang Ninh, 14 July 2021. For the seventh consecutive year, AES Mong Duong has been awarded the prestigious Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Gold Medal in recognition of its practices and achievements in maintaining world-class safety standards in overall health and safety performance, policies and procedures.
Trinh Thanh Tung, a student at the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, who has been awarded the AES Future Energy Scholarship four times, has been honored for his SAFELUNG project, which provides a toolkit to help warn of pneumonia and provides applications to support screening of people infected with SARS-CoV-2.
Ho Chi Minh City, June 24th, 2021: In face of the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic surging in Ho Chi Minh City, Bien Hoa Packaging JSC (SOVI), member of SCGP has timely manufactured and provided innovative applications to Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee in Ho Chi Minh City to support the pandemic prevention and control at administrative agencies and medical facilities in the local communities.
HEINEKEN Vietnam has recently released its 2020 Sustainability Report. This is the seventh year the company has issued its ‘Brew a Better Vietnam’ report and highlights its resilience and commitment to sustainability during 2020. As HEINEKEN Vietnam builds up towards its 30th anniversary in Vietnam, the company is also announcing on this occasion it will continue to “Raise the Bar” to contribute to HEINEKEN’s global ambitions for sustainability.
The Coca-Cola Company and The Ocean Cleanup are teaming up behind a clear objective: to stem the tide of marine waste by intercepting plastic debris from rivers around the world. The partnership, which brings together Coca-Cola’s scale and global network with The Ocean Cleanup’s technology and data-driven solutions, will implement cleanup systems, including the Dutch nonprofit’s solar-powered Interceptor, in 15 rivers by the end of 2022.
