The Corporate Information Transparency Index (CITI) is a system for evaluating brands’ green supply chain practices that was jointly developed by the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). IPE uses this index to score brands using government compliance data, online monitoring data, and third-party environmental audits, as well as trends in the environmental performance of factories in the brands’ supply chains. These rankings form the basis for an annual report...Of the 167 brands, the top ten highest-scoring brands are: Apple, Adidas, H&M, Levi’s, Marks &Spencer, Panasonic, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Esquel and Hitachi...The top five scoring brands from Greater China in this year’s CITI are Esquel, Foxconn, Huawei, Esprit, and Li-Ning. Of these brands, Huawei ranks as the top brand from mainland China...