SOLAR SUPPLY CHAIN TRACEABILITY PROTOCOL 1

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SOLAR SUPPLY CHAIN TRACEABILITY PROTOCOL INDUSTRY GUIDANCE April 2021 SOLAR SUPPLY CHAIN TRACEABILITY PROTOCOL 2 FOREWORD The ability to trace the provenance of components through the SUPPLY CHAIN , from input materials to the finished product, is necessary and important for a variety of reasons. From upholding corporate social responsibility principles to quality assurance and environmental performance, robust product TRACEABILITY provides openness and transparency. The SOLAR energy industry delivers sustainability solutions to customers by producing energy with low greenhouse gas impacts, improving energy security, and creating jobs and economic development. These considerations, however, are only part of the industry s role in sustainability. More broadly, the SOLAR energy industry has a responsibility to mitigate and manage its full range of social and environmental impacts, which include respecting the human rights of workers, ensuring that the rights of communities and other stakeholders are respected, and making business operations safe and environmentally responsible.

Social Responsibility (Solar Commitment). The Solar Commitment, developed through a multi-stakeholder process, is an industry code of conduct which defines common practices and expectations for environmental, health, and safety issues and related management systems. A key principle of the Solar Commitment is transparency.

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