Ecological Conservation

■ The Sea Turtle Conservation Project

E.SUN FHC, committed to preserving the nature and ecology of Taiwan, has collaborated with National Museum of Maine Biology and Aquarium in holding Taiwan Marine Environment Protection - The Sea Turtle Conservation Project for 2 consecutive years. In 2020, the Project included 4 series: Let's Go Marine Conservation, Sea Turtle Medical Station, Marine Guards Off-Campus Teaching Activities, and Cape Secret Ecological Tour. This Project has attracted more than 1,200 participants, and they have helped to release 6 sea turtles that had recovered from injury after receiving proper care back to the ocean. Through such a project, we hope to raise the public's awareness of marine ecology protection and facilitate ocean sustainability.

The Sea Turtle Conservation Project Series 1: Let's Go Marine Conservation – Releasing the Sea Turtles

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The Sea Turtle Conservation Project Series 2: Sea Turtle Medical Station

In 2020, we established the Sea Turtle Medical Station, where we paid for medical devices/treatment and food so that injured sea turtles could receive great care. 10 sea turtles in total were treated.

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The Sea Turtle Conservation Project Series 3: Off-Campus Teaching Activities - Why Do You Feed on Plastic, Sea Turtle?

With sea turtles being the topic, we invited Daliao Elementary School and Guopi Elementary School from Kaohsiung, and National Nanke International Experimental High School from Tainan to participate in off-campus teaching activities. Through diverse courses on marine environmental education, the students grew more interested in learning about marine creatures and became more appreciative of marine resources and ecology. W held ten such sessions in 2020.

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The Sea Turtle Conservation Project Series 4: Cape Secret Ecological Tour - A Date with Sea Turtles

The contents of the activity encompass a sea turtle parent-child interactive course with participants visiting the sea turtle shelter center for guided tours. The tours enable the general public to better understand the current status of the marine environment. 5 sessions were held in 2020.

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A - Hi, the Sea Turtle Conservation Mascot

For sea turtle conservation issues to gain more public attention, we designed A - Hi, the sea turtle conservation mascot, and worked with the NMMBA in printing sea turtle desk pads and folders, which incorporate common life habits and illustrations of sea turtles in Taiwan, to advocate the importance of marine conservation to customers and the general public.

■ Taiwan Formosan Bear conservation

The Formosan black bear is Taiwan's sole native bear species. The survival of the black bear not only implies the preservation of this species in Taiwan, but also implies protecting the integrity of Taiwan's forest ecosystems and overall biodiversity. Since 2012, E.SUN FHC has been working with Taiwan black bear conservation and restoration units, including the Taiwan Endemic Species Research Institute, COA, Yushan National Park Administration, Taipei Zoo, and the Taiwan Black Bear Conservation Association to promote a series of black bear conservation activities.

Issuance of Taiwan's first credit card combining conservation and environmental concept—the "Black Bear Affinity Card."

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Taipei Zoo "Zoolloween" Festival

E.SUN has been supporting the Taipei Zoo's "Zoolloween" festival for 8 consecutive years since 2013. Through the diverse and interesting "Looking for Zoo Treasures" activity, visitors can learn about different types of baby animals and the importance of energy saving and carbon reduction for species conservation, thus protecting Formosan black bears and other species from the danger of extinction.

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Zookeeper experience camp

For 3 consecutive years since 2018, the bank sponsored the "Little Zookeepers Scavenger Hunt" at the Taipei Zoo. Through answering questions related to black bear conservation, students learned correct knowledge of black bear ecological conservation.

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Black bear "Brown Sugar" celebrates birthday

On December 26, 2020, together with Taipei Zoo, E.SUN celebrated the birth of black bear "Brown Sugar," a species of the Temperate Zone Animal Area. Through a fun and heartwarming birthday party and conservation education activities, the public gained greater awareness of the importance of conserving Formosan black bears and other indigenous species.

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E.SUN Bear Conservation Promotion

We designed interesting stickers and notebooks, which embedded the behaviour, living habits,and conservation information of Formosan Black Bear. To advocate the importance of Formosan black bear conservation in Taiwan for clients and people. Established an online CSR game, LOHAS BEAR, on our official website to encourage customers and the general public to lead a green lifestyle with E.SUN Bear through everyday activities (e.g., dining, clothing, accommodation, and transportation).

■ Promoting butterfly conservation

E.SUN has jointly promoted butterfly conservation with Yangmingshan National Park for 8 consecutive years. In 2020, the partners planned eco-tourism for different routes and launched "Summer's Dream for Insects - Butterflies of Caoshan," an activity under the "Four Seasons of Yangmingshan" series, integrating butterfly habitat conservation in the national park with environmental education concepts. With the approach of summer butterfly season, members of the public were given the opportunity to understand the ecological environment of Yangmingshan, knowledge of butterfly biology, and the common nectar plants and butterflies of Yangmingshan. In 2020, teachers and students from one of E.SUN's Golden Seed Project schools, Sanzhi Elementary School in New Taipei City, as well as a group for the disadvantaged were specially invited to participate in the "Summer's Dream for Insects - Butterflies of Caoshan" ecological tour. Guided by E.SUN volunteers and narrators, the children were able to observe butterfly ecology, understand Taiwan's precious butterfly species and the importance of habitat conservation.

■ "Plant a tree, Plant a life" E.SUN plant trees project

E.SUN has long been highly concerned with climate change and ocean sustainability issues. In order to slow down global warming, E.SUN has responded to the SDG 13 climate action, SDG 14 Life Below Water, and SDG 15 Life on Land with practical actions, and has been jointly promoting the "Plant a tree, Plant a life" E.SUN plant trees project for two consecutive years in collaboration with the Forestry Bureau. In 2020, the bank adopted state-owned forest land as well as coastal forests with a total area of 6.03 hectares. Over 10,050 saplings of native tree species, including Fraxinus griffithii, Quercus glauca, Machilus thunbergii, Liquidambar formosana, Scaevola taccada, Casuarina equisetifolia, and Cerbera manghas.

In the tree planting month of 2020, Chairman Joseph N.C.Huang of E.SUN Bank called on E.SUN volunteers to plant with their own hand native seedlings in the state-owned forest land in the Beitou and Wenshan Districts of Taipei City. On October 13, President Magi Chen of E.SUN Financial Holdings led E.SUN volunteers to plant windbreak tree seedlings in the coastal woodlands of Shimen District, New Taipei City. The activity is conducted in hopes that, by planting native Taiwanese tree seedlings by hand, all participants are able to better understand the significance of planting native and suitable tree species for the local environment. In addition to enriching local biodiversity, it also contributes to the sustainability of the environment.

■ Adopting Bus Stops to Communicate the Importance of Protecting Nature

■ "E.SUN Visa Signature", Taiwan's first charitable card with an emphasis on environmental awareness

In 2009, E.SUN Bank introduced the first charitable credit card with an emphasis on environmental awareness, the E.SUN Visa Signature card. The motto is "One Life, One Tree, LOHAS Lifestyle". We continue to invite cardholders to jointly participate in the "One Tree Per Person" project, and give back to this land through tree planting. We encourage Visa card members to apply for electronic bills or mobile bills, and donate 0.2% of each transaction amount of customers who apply for e-bills to tree planting programs. We've planted 30,000 trees under this project.

■ "Beautiful Taiwan, Smiling E.SUN" environmental clean-up activity

■ Adopting trails in Yushan National Park trail

We have adopted and maintained trails in Yushan National Park trail for 12 consecutive years, and use this opportunity to promote conservation and environmental education. We encourage E.SUN employees to participate and work together to protect the environment.

■ Supporting domestic and international advocacy on environmental protection

Responding to the global environmental event, Earth Hour - E.SUN was the only assisting organizer in Taiwan

Responding to "International Polar Bear Day" and advocating awareness of climate change

Invited customers and employees to celebrate International Car Free Day - Approximately 210,000 YouBike rides per month by E.SUN EasyCard holders!

On International Car Free Day, E.SUN used its website, internal publicity, and Ubike marketing activities to encourage employees to come to work using a low-carbon means of transportation, such as mass transit, cycling, walking, or carpooling, and let employees participate in the various Car Free Day activities held indifferent areas to advocate eco-friendly lifestyles.

Lights Off for Summer Solstice

E.SUN participated in the "Lights Off for Summer Solstice" activity initiated by the The Society of Wilderness. The "Lights Off for 100 Days" activity was held during the peak summer electricity consumption period for 3 consecutive years at a total of 139 branches in Taiwan, and the signs, exterior wall lights and TV walls of branches were turned off throughout the day. Colleagues were also invited to jointly respond and take practical actions to reduce energy consumption.

■ Promoted zero-waste circular economy

Resource Circulation and Charity Sale activity

13-Book Lovers: Magazine circulation day activity

In order to realize E.SUN's environmental protection spirit, the "13-Book Lovers: Magazine circulation day activity" has been held at the E.SUN Headquarter Building. In order to effectively achieve the goal of resource sharing, we collected the magazines that various departments had subscribed to (or had received as donations), along with employees' own books, magazines, CDs, and DVDs, they were made freely available to employees We totally collected 2,016 items in 2020, and circulated 1,403 items, for a circulation rate of 69.59%.

■ Raise employee's awareness of ecological environment protection

13th of every month is "E.SUN Environment and Energy Saving Eduaction Day"

13th of every month, the environmental volunteers promote knowledge of environmental protection. Some educational material is displayed on e-Learning platform. Besides, 13th is also the cleaning day, when employees would clean the office environment to realize the 4R concept- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Refuse into practice.

■ Educated employees on low-carbon diet

E.SUN Vegetables Day on Mondays

Vegetarian meals are served on Mondays in employee canteen. This not only encourages employees to eat more vegetables and consume less meat but also reduces the production of carbon dioxide by the animal husbandry industry. This effort has been supported by 1.952 employees in E.SUN every week, reducing carbon emissions by roughly 75.67 tons CO2e. (Note: For every person who does not eat meat, 760 g CO2e of carbon emission can be

Food made from local food ingredients

From E.SUN headquarter building to training center and branches to families, our employee canteens purchase food ingredients from local food producers or neighboring areas, on the premise that a healthy balanced diet is maintained. Adequate quantity of seasonal food ingredients is purchased in order to shorten the carbon footprint by reducing food wastes and resource wastes during the transport and refrigeration process. We also show our support for organic farms by providing employees with organic fruit vouchers.