The "Industry Forum, Accelerating Sustainable Development" Asia Multinational Seminar was successfully held, and Vietnamese media reported on the topic of "Sustainable Development" under the title "Applying Technology to Accelerate Supply Chain Transformation."
[SSBTi International News] 2025.01.17 Comprehensive Report
The online and offline seminar "Industry Forum, Accelerating Sustainable Development" co hosted by SSBTi and other organizations has attracted the attention of supply chain companies in Asia, including China, Vietnam, and Taiwan. Experts at the conference suggested that companies need strong technological support to accelerate sustainable development, along with clear energy management strategies and ESG compliance. Vietnamese media such as "Công Thương / Newspaper of Industry and Trade" and "Doanh nghiệp Việt Nam" have also reported that relevant Vietnamese companies need to closely monitor and grasp compliance requirements early to maintain business continuity, stay competitive, establish partnerships with European companies, and develop plans to respond to changes.
According to Vietnam's "Công Thương" (Newspaper of Industry and Trade)(congthuong.vn) On January 17, 2025, named "Enterprises Actively Applying Technology to Sustainable Development" .The report on "exhibition" points out that "technology" is assessed as the best solution to help enterprises achieve sustainable development goals and engage more deeply in the global value chain.
This report points out that at a recent online and offline seminar called "Industry Forum, Accelerating Sustainable Development," experts shared that sustainable development is one of the important "keywords" and has become a global trend. This trend has not only attracted the attention and participation of governments around the world but has also garnered significant attention from the business community.
According to reports from local media in Vietnam, experts at the meeting stated that the European Parliament has decided that starting from June 2026, companies outside of Europe must comply with the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) aimed at industry groups. This includes sectors such as oil and gas, mining, road transport, food, automotive, agriculture, and textiles, all of which must have their own reporting standards, significantly impacting the environment. In addition, the EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) will officially take effect on July 25, 2024, requiring companies to conduct thorough due diligence on their impact on human rights and the environment throughout their value chains. Not only the EU, but many countries around the world are also interested in sustainability issues and have strict standards for goods imported into their countries.
SSBTi.ORG is an international non-profit organization that researches environmental impacts and is dedicated to helping supply chains address carbon disclosure and science-based carbon targets. SSBTi Chairman Raymond Wang （汪瑞民）stated at the seminar that integrating sustainable development practices and reporting according to ESG (Environmental-Social-Governance) standards into corporate development strategies and policies is becoming increasingly important.
Raymond Wang （汪瑞民）suggested that Vietnamese-related enterprises should achieve sustainable development through technological applications. Enterprises need to have a core approach to help them more effectively meet different requirements, avoiding the waste of resources when it is necessary to comply with each regulation or standard individually. SSBTi has launched a platform that collects high-quality data on upstream and downstream emissions, supporting enterprises in addressing issues and difficulties in collecting supplier data and calculations.
SSBTi has developed sustainable solutions in collaboration with leading universities and software companies in Asia. Method for creating a carbon footprint data platform (CFP) for local areas. A software platform was launched based on the product life cycle, connecting data from Europe and Asia based on the greenhouse gas protocol.
According to a report titled "Applying Technology to Accelerate Supply Chain Transformation" published on January 17, 2025, in the Vietnamese Business Magazine Doanh nghiệp Việt Nam (doanhnghiepvn.vn), experts at the seminar "Industry Forum: Accelerating Sustainable Development" believe that the application of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and digital solutions in energy management, emission reduction, and meeting ESG standards is considered key for companies to accelerate supply chain transformation.
The report pointed out that at this seminar, experts believe that according to the MRV (Measurement-Reporting-Verification) method, ESG practices need to be transparent. In particular, measurement needs to be implemented continuously in real-time and return results to support monitoring, supervision, situation handling, remediation, and continuous improvement. Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) technology effectively serves data collection and analysis, alerts critical thresholds, and predicts trends.
Regarding this issue, greenhouse gas management, climate change, and carbon neutrality expert, as well as the Vietnam consulting advisor for SBBTi, Pham Hoai Trung (Chairman of Azitech Technology Company), believes that ESG data includes many different indicators and KPIs related to environmental factors, such as energy, water, sound, light, temperature, humidity, and many other indicators that identify various environmental footprints.
Pham Hoai Trung believes that "this requires companies to have visual monitoring and management technologies to integrate different fragmented data, thereby providing accurate and reliable reports to help companies demonstrate their sustainability in front of independent assessment units."
Experts at the meeting stated that an important standard to be included in sustainability reports, according to various compliance and corporate voluntary requirements, is the process of determining the carbon emissions per unit of product (CFP). Energy consumption will account for a significant proportion. To require companies to develop effective energy management strategies, IoT solutions for collecting 3EGREEN power consumption data are essential.
3EGREEN solutions are focused on continuous energy management and measurement, equipment management, and carbon emissions. The advantages of 3EGREEN are easy installation, low investment costs, and the ability to collect data from important energy consumption sources within various boundary ranges, especially as it can save 20-30% of energy usage.
Dr. Kenneth S. Chan（陳松光博士）from the University of Michigan, who attended the meeting, stated that the biggest challenge manufacturers face is the sustainable transformation (SX) and AI processing of data fragmentation from many different systems during the application of digital transformation (DX) and the construction of smart factory systems (SM). This is accompanied by limitations in investment budgets and a lack of human resources with expertise to maintain a comprehensive application system that includes DX, SM, SX, and AI.
Dr. Dr. Kenneth S. Chan（陳松光博士） specially introduced the "A1 Smart Factory System" at the meeting and stated that this system has been successfully deployed in over 100 companies in countries such as the United States, Australia, China, and Vietnam.
The solution provided by the members of the "A1 Smart Factory System" alliance to help enterprises solve the above problems is to develop a powerful and straightforward framework that seamlessly integrates software used in different stages of development. This offers cost optimized solutions for each different practice step as well as information management and virtual reality for research and development (R&D) systems.
Local Vietnamese media also quoted the introduction of the seminar "Industry Forum, Accelerating Sustainable Development," which pointed out that the seminar discussed many globally relevant issues, such as green finance, sustainable smart technology solutions, and sustainable production, serving as a useful reference channel for businesses and authorities in formulating sustainable development policies.
(The above is a summary report compiled from the SSBTi newsletter)
Very successful workshop