Climate Change Data

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Climate Change
• Supply Chain Sustainability
• Human Capital Management
• Customer Relations
• Product Sustainability

Environmental Achievements

• Reduced carbon emissions by 45.47% (2016-2022)
• Reduced material and resource consumption by 38.95% (2016-2022)
• Reduced energy consumption by 42.32% (2016-2022)
• Recyclable waste proportion reached 90%
• 10% of energy consumption sourced from renewable energy
• Joined RE100

Social Achievements

• Employee engagement scored 4.6 out of 6
• 100% completion rate for the Code of Conduct training
• 28 million work hours without occupational accidents in Taiwan facility
• Average employee training hours 30.3 hr
• Received Best Companies to Work for in Asia for four consecutive years
• Selected as one of the Taiwan Top-100 Best Sustainability Enterprise

Governance Achievements

• Established anti-corruption training for all employees
• Corporate Governance Evaluation 20%
• 0 chemical leakage
• 0 cases of released chemicals and environmental law violations

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Supply chain disruptions due to climate events
• Meeting increasingly complex regulations regarding sustainable operations
• Assessing the most urgent ESG issues across all sectors and quantifying their long-term impacts
• Maintaining a stable supply chain in a crisis
• Reducing carbon emissions in the supply chain

Mitigation Strategies

• Developed alternative sourcing strategies
• Enhanced risk identification and management
• Established responsive strategies for droughts and floods
• Established principles for the implementation of internal carbon pricing
• Developed a complete ESG learning plan for all supply chain partners
• Held suppliers’ meeting with sustainability as the topic
• Set net-zero targets: 20% carbon reduction in the supply chain by 2030; 100% use of renewable energy by 2040; net-zero emissions by 2050

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: 97% of Tier 1 key suppliers completed audits

Responsible Procurement

• Code of Conduct for Sustainable Development of Suppliers
• Supplier sustainability requirements
• Conflict mineral investigations
• Local procurement

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks

• Typhoons and floods
• Water and power shortages
• Increase of annual temperatures

Transition Risks

• Domestic and international regulations and laws
• Carbon trading and carbon tax
• Green product and technology
• Purchase of green power
• Customer and regulatory requirements
• The sustainable awareness of consumers
• Reputational risk

Opportunities

• Benefits of energy saving
• Benefits of water saving
• High-efficiency green building
• Solar power installation
• Products and services with low carbon emissions
• Energy-saving commodities and market demand
• Energy-saving commodities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI Standards (comprehensive), SASB, TCFD, UN SDGs, ISO 26000, AA 1000 AS V3 High Assurance Type II

Certifications: ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 14064-1, ISO 50001, ISO 14004, ISO 62430, SA8000

Third-party Assurance: Bureau Veritas Certification (Taiwan) (BVC)

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Goal 7 (Affordable and clean energy)
• Goal 9 (Industry, innovation, and infrastructure)
• Goal 12 (Responsible consumption and production)
• Goal 13 (Climate action)
• Goal 8 (Decent work and economic growth)
• Goal 5 (Gender equality)
• Goal 15 (Life on land)

Initiatives contributing to these goals detailed in report

Sustainable Products & Innovation

• Eco-friendly products
• Low-carbon products
• Energy-efficient products

Awards & Recognition

• 2022 Taiwan Sustainability Action Awards
• 2022 Suzhou City Annual Ranking of Economic Contribution
• 2022 Suzhou City Annual Ranking of Product Innovation
• Taiwan Best Sustainability Enterprise Award
• 2021 Taiwan Sustainability Action Award – Best Action Plan Award