Supporting transparent, proportionate transition planning in the global footwear supply chain
SSBTi.org announces the public release of CJCHT Groups Limited’s Climate Transition Plan following an external professional technical review. The plan was approved on 30 October 2025 and became effective on 31 October 2025. The external review work commenced in 2025 and was completed before this 2026 publication.
Why SSBTi is publishing the plan
CJCHT is a privately held footwear design and supply-chain management company. It has developed its climate capability through more than a decade of CDP disclosure, customer programs, product LCA/LCIA, internal engineering and sourcing work, and supplier engagement. Publishing the plan demonstrates how a traditional supply-chain company can use disclosure as a learning and management process, building internal competence instead of relying only on an external consultant to produce a one-time report.
CJCHT is a founding member of SSBTi. SSBTi is publishing this notice in its role as a supply-chain knowledge and professional-review platform. External technical input was provided by Dr. Jun-Po Hung, Professor at Minghsin University of Science and Technology and a National Taiwan University PhD. The review is intended to provide an additional professional perspective for CJCHT’s management and stakeholders.
Scope of technical review
The review considered the plan’s governance and accountability; linkage to CJCHT’s SBTi-validated near-term target; organizational and value-chain boundaries; energy-efficiency and renewable-electricity measures; material efficiency, recycled content and lower-fossil-content alternatives; product LCA/LCIA; supplier engagement; and arrangements for monitoring, periodic review and public disclosure.
The review also considered whether the plan appropriately reflects CJCHT’s position as a footwear supply-chain company rather than a fossil-fuel producer, and whether its implementation commitments remain proportionate to available budgets, customer requirements, material performance and supplier capability.
Technical review conclusion
Based on the document and supporting information reviewed, SSBTi considers the CJCHT Climate Transition Plan suitable for public disclosure as a credible and proportionate management framework for CJCHT’s current size, business model and supply-chain role. The plan identifies practical transition levers within CJCHT’s influence, including energy efficiency, renewable electricity, circular and lower-impact materials, LCA-informed product design, supplier data improvement and customer collaboration.
SSBTi recommends that CJCHT maintain a stable public location for the plan, review progress at least annually, publish concise progress updates, and continue strengthening quantitative evidence for upstream supplier coverage, material transition, renewable-energy deployment and product-level environmental outcomes.
Important status clarification
This review is an external technical review and publication decision. It is not an audit, assurance engagement, certification, legal opinion, or validation by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). SBTi validation applies to CJCHT’s near-term emissions target only. CJCHT remains responsible for the plan, its underlying data, implementation decisions and future progress reporting.
Document availability
The complete English Climate Transition Plan and the SSBTi External Technical Review Notice are maintained on the supporting document page linked below. The English plan is the controlling public-disclosure version for international use.
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Clarifying the Roles of SBTi and SSBTi
In this solution package,
SBTi refers to the Science Based Targets initiative, including the science-based target-setting framework and its associated formal validation mechanism for corporate climate targets.
SSBTi is the abbreviation for the Supply-chain Science Based Targets Institute, with its official website at SSBTi.org. Its registered legal entity in Taiwan is 「社團法人一點五度科學減碳倡議標準協會」.
Initiated in Asia by the CJCHT Group, SSBTi serves as a collaboration, review and implementation platform for supply-chain sustainability. It helps supply-chain companies coordinate emissions-reduction actions and make continued progress toward net-zero goals.
Its core role is to translate corporate climate commitments, international frameworks and customer requirements into actionable supplier tasks, training programs, data rules, reporting requirements and connected information systems.
SSBTi does not replace the formal SBTi target-validation mechanism, nor does it directly replace qualified independent assurance, verification or certification bodies. Instead, SSBTi works through its professional collaboration network, connecting professors, reviewers, verifiers and specialist organizations with relevant qualifications, methodological capabilities and industry experience.
Based on customer requirements, project scope and applicable standards, this network provides report review and technical assessment that connect data quality and methodology with practical supply-chain management.
The scope may include customer-required LCA reports, EPD documentation, ISO 14064-1 organizational GHG inventory reports, ISO 14067 product carbon-footprint reports, CBAM reports, CDP disclosures and SBTi target-related documentation.
Where a project requires a formal assurance statement, validation opinion, certificate or registered publication, the final output remains subject to the applicable scheme rules and must be performed or issued by an independent organization holding the required qualifications and authorization for that specific program.
SSBTi addresses the most difficult work that remains after corporate targets have been established and reports have been reviewed: supplier onboarding, data coordination, capability building, management integration and continuous improvement. Its role is to help companies transform one-time reporting outcomes into a supply-chain management system that can operate and improve over time.
For member companies, SSBTi.org also functions as a shared third-party coordination platform, connecting value-chain leaders, suppliers, advisors, technology providers, industry, government and academic stakeholders, and qualified verification bodies. This enables companies to build a collaborative supply-chain ecosystem around shared environmental and sustainability objectives more efficiently.