Climate Change Data

National Instruments Corporation

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2020, 2021, 2022)

Reporting Period: 2020

Environmental Metrics

Total Carbon Emissions:35,770 MTCO2e
Scope 1 Emissions:16,062 MTCO2e
Scope 3 Emissions:19,708 MTCO2e
Renewable Energy Share:37%
Total Energy Consumption:40,929,131 kWh
Water Consumption:40,285,782 gallons
Waste Generated:926 metric tons
Carbon Intensity:8 MTCO2e/$1 million revenue

ESG Focus Areas

  • Changing the faces of engineering
  • Building an equitable and thriving society
  • Engineering a healthy planet

Environmental Achievements

  • 73% of total waste diverted from landfill at NI-owned buildings globally
  • 37% of total electricity use coming from renewable sources

Social Achievements

  • Donated over $1.5 million in cash and products to STEM education initiatives
  • Launched a new Black Inclusion Network
  • Launched a new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council
  • Deployed $2.5 million to support COVID-19 relief efforts and STEM education
  • Made a $500,000 low-interest loan to Austin Habitat for Humanity
  • Significantly lower than industry average levels of voluntary employee attrition

Governance Achievements

  • Assembled an Impact Council of NI executives devoted to ESG governance
  • Formed working groups across global sites and business units

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • By 2030, 50% of our global workforce will be women, and our U.S. workforce will be 13% Black and 18% Latinx.
  • By 2030, 50% of our people managers globally will be women, and 40% of our U.S. people managers will be people of color.
  • Each year through 2030, 87% of our employees will feel a sense of belonging at NI.
  • Each year through 2030, we will advance STEM education initiatives serving underrepresented or economically disadvantaged students.
  • Before 2030, our employees will spend 25% of their total volunteer hours supporting STEM education initiatives.
  • Before 2030, we will achieve substantial equity in total rewards for all employees in similar roles and levels with comparable performance and impact.
  • Each year through 2030, we will advance programs and initiatives that improve our employees’ wellbeing.
  • Before 2030, 92% of our employees will be highly engaged.
  • By 2030, 16% of our suppliers will be small or diverse businesses.
  • Each year through 2030, we will support equity and economic opportunity initiatives through monetary and product donations and volunteering.
  • Each year through 2030, we will discount or donate NI products to organizations developing green technology and will volunteer for environmental initiatives.
  • By 2030, we will achieve Zero Waste at NI-owned buildings and reduce waste at leased facilities.
  • Each year through 2030, we will design 100% of NI’s new buildings or remodels to LEED and WELL standards.
  • Each year through 2030, we will conserve natural resources, protect biodiversity, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Each year through 2030, we will make circular design improvements in our product design, manufacturing, and packaging.

Environmental Challenges

  • COVID-19 pandemic and sudden lockdowns
  • Economic challenges
  • Civil unrest in the United States and globally
  • Curtailed volunteerism due to lockdowns
Mitigation Strategies
  • Embraced remote work
  • Introduced a global employee assistance program and “Quiet Weeks”
  • Launched NI Flex program
  • Built a robust global infrastructure for connecting NIers to future volunteer opportunities

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement
  • Promoting supply chain diversity by sourcing from small businesses and women- or minority-owned businesses

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI

Reporting Period: 2021

Environmental Metrics

Total Carbon Emissions:36,725 MTCO2e
Scope 1 Emissions:16,719 MTCO2e
Scope 3 Emissions:20,956 MTCO2e
Renewable Energy Share:35.5%
Total Energy Consumption:42,543,038 kWh
Water Consumption:26,816,128 gallons
Waste Generated:821 metric tons (total solid nonhazardous waste)
Carbon Intensity:26 MTCO2e/$1 million revenue

ESG Focus Areas

  • Changing the Faces of Engineering
  • Building an Equitable and Thriving Society
  • Engineering a Healthy Planet

Environmental Achievements

  • Sourced 35.5% of total electricity from renewable sources.
  • Completed LED lighting retrofits resulting in projected energy savings.
  • Built new warehouse facility in Penang to LEED and WELL standards.
  • Reduced water use significantly from 2020 to 2021.

Social Achievements

  • Launched NI Thrive wellbeing program globally.
  • Achieved substantial equity in base salary across the company.
  • Announced $2.7 million in grants to nine global STEM education initiatives.
  • Expanded inclusion resource groups globally.

Governance Achievements

  • 75% of the board is independent.
  • Updated Code of Ethics and Global Compliance Policies.
  • Implemented new training courses on ethics and compliance.

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Not disclosed
Medium-term Goals:
  • Become a climate-neutral company by 2030.
Short-term Goals:
  • Not disclosed

Environmental Challenges

  • Maintaining Corporate Impact focus amidst pandemic, supply chain disruption, and company transformation.
  • Ensuring diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) is central to the business.
  • Pandemic-related limitations on in-person volunteering and employee engagement.
  • Supply chain disruptions impacting supplier diversity goals.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Increased communication and change management efforts.
  • Building DEIB infrastructure, training, and coaching programs.
  • Pivoting to virtual volunteering opportunities.
  • Creating a Global Functional Excellence organization within procurement to manage supplier diversity.

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: >95% (by spend) annually for conflict minerals

Responsible Procurement
  • NI Supplier Code of Conduct, supplier assessment process, quarterly business reviews, supplier scorecard.

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Opportunities
  • Development of energy-efficient products, acquisitions in the electric vehicle space.

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI

Certifications: ISO 14001

Awards & Recognition

  • Newsweek's List of Most Responsible Companies 2022

Reporting Period: 2022

Environmental Metrics

Total Carbon Emissions:186,461 MTCO2e (Scope 3 included)
Scope 1 Emissions:15,910 MTCO2e
Scope 2 Emissions:Not disclosed
Scope 3 Emissions:186,461 MTCO2e
Renewable Energy Share:35%
Total Energy Consumption:44,354,479 kWh
Water Consumption:34,080,493 gallons
Waste Generated:1,286 metric tons (non-hazardous solid waste)
Carbon Intensity:19 MTCO2e/$1 million revenue

ESG Focus Areas

  • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
  • Affordable Housing and Homelessness
  • Climate Neutrality
  • Supplier Diversity
  • Employee Wellbeing

Environmental Achievements

  • Scope 1 and 2 emissions decreased 5% YOY
  • 35% of electricity sourced from renewables
  • 73% of total nonhazardous solid waste diverted from landfill at NI-owned buildings globally
  • 100% of new buildings and remodels were designed to LEED and WELL standards
  • 53,500 annual product shipments converted to sustainable packaging

Social Achievements

  • 85% of employees feel a sense of belonging
  • $560K committed to affordable housing and homelessness initiatives
  • Launched global supplier diversity program
  • 4 Global Recharge Weeks for NIers to take time off or nurture their wellbeing
  • 126,361 students served by NI-sponsored STEM education initiatives
  • Achieved gender pay equity (women earning 99% of what men earn globally)
  • Achieved pay equity goals for Black and Latinx NI employees in the U.S.

Governance Achievements

  • Updated NI’s Code of Ethics, Business Gifts and Entertainment Policy, and Conflict of Interest Policy
  • Trained all NI employees on the Code of Ethics
  • Partnered with EcoVadis to track the social and environmental performance of key suppliers

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Climate neutrality by 2030
Medium-term Goals:
  • Not disclosed
Short-term Goals:
  • Not disclosed

Environmental Challenges

  • Supply chain constraints and global economic uncertainty
  • Uneven progress toward diversity goals
  • Increased attrition rate among Latinx employees
  • Reaching climate neutrality target requires more aggressive action
Mitigation Strategies
  • Focusing on deep, transformational solutions for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
  • Working with Latinx inclusion resource group to understand contributing factors to attrition
  • Forming an Inclusive Hiring Accelerator Team
  • Analyzing engagement, hiring and attrition data to identify ways to strengthen culture and practices
  • Launching steering committees to provide oversight and support to Impact goals in 2023

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: Not disclosed

Responsible Procurement
  • NI Supplier Diversity Program
  • Updated NI Supplier Handbook

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks
  • Not disclosed
Transition Risks
  • Not disclosed
Opportunities
  • Not disclosed

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI, SASB, TCFD

Certifications: LEED, WELL

Third-party Assurance: Not disclosed

UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • Not disclosed

Not disclosed

Sustainable Products & Innovation

  • Not disclosed

Awards & Recognition

  • 2022 Moving the Needle Award from the Austin Mayor’s Health & Fitness Council
  • Gold certification from the Austin Mayor’s Health & Fitness Council
  • Bandera Azul Ecológica award in the Climate Change category (Costa Rica)