Humanity now faces grave challenges. In the face of such challenges, TSMC is focusing on improving core business competencies through our ten business philosophies and four core values . We are striving to fulfill our five sustainability roles and drive SDGs throughout the semiconductor industry by influencing the three major stages of upstream procurement, TSMC operations, and customer use. With guidance from the ESG Steering Committee, TSMC has set five ESG goals and selected nine primary SDGs. With the ESG Committee, we were able to integrate inter-organizational resources and capabilities to formulate 44 timely and quantifiable long-term goals and implement 24 corresponding actions toward sustainability. We are integrating SDGs into our organizational culture and daily operations, and with Goal 17 of the SDGs – global partnerships – at the core, we are collaborating with internal/external stakeholders through participation, cooperation, and engagement to uncover opportunities for growth in the governance/economic, environmental, and social dimensions. We hope that we can join together in a sustainable future with shared values.
An Innovation Pioneer
A Responsible Purchaser
A Practitioner of Green Power
An Admired Employer
Power to Change Society
Upstream Procurement
TSMC Operations
Customer Use
Linking SDGs and TSMC's Sustainable Development Goals for 2030
Offer Better Medical Care to Seniors Living Alone
Provide 12,000 service visits to seniors living alone
Good Health and Well-being
Promote Filial Piety Among Our Youth
Promote filial piety education in 120 educational institutions
Care for the Educationally Disadvantaged
Continuous collaboration with public and private educational organizations and provide no less than NT$15 million in resources annually
Volunteer Readers for Children in Remote Areas
Provide more than 10,000 hours of reading services each year
Quality
Education
Reduce Water Risks
Reduce unit water consumption (liter/12-inch equivalent wafer mask layers) by 30% (Base year: 2010)
Help suppliers implement water conservation measures and reach 3.5 million metric tons in cumulative amount of water conserved (Base year: 2020)
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Raise Effluent Standards
Water pollution composite indicator 50% above effluent standards
Increase Usage of Reclaimed Water
Increase the replacement rate of reclaimed water by more than 30%
Clean Water and Sanitation
Produce with Greater Energy Efficiency
Double energy efficiency after five years of mass production for each process technology
Save 5,000 GWh cumulatively between 2016 and 2030 through new energy-saving measures
Work with Suppliers Toward Energy Conservation
Help suppliers implement energy conservation measures and reduce energy consumption by a cumulative total of 1,500 GWh (Base year: 2018)
Use Renewable Energy
Renewable energy to account for 20% of energy consumption in new fabs after adopting 3nm processes. Continue increasing renewable energy purchases annually until 25% of fabs' power consumption is supplied from renewable energy and non-fab power consumption is 100% from renewable energy
Affordable and Clean Energy
Offer Competitive Compensation
Maintain position above 75 th
percentile among industry peers in total compensation
Facilitate Sustainability Across the Supply Chain
Tier 1 suppliers required to complete Sustainability Management Self-assessment Questionnaire; completion rate 100%
Tier 1 suppliers required to sign TSMC Supplier Code of Conduct every three years; completion rate: 100%
Suppliers required to receive third-party (RBA-certified agencies) audits every three years: completion rate 100%
Conduct due diligence for responsible mineral supply chains on three suppliers each year; 30 cumulative suppliers surveyed
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Promote Workplace Safety
Disabling Injuries Frequency Rate (FR) < 0.3
Disabling Severity Rate (SR) < 3
Incident Rate per 1,000 Employees <0.20
All waste treatment vendors to acquire ISO14001 or other international EHS Management certifications
Supporting high-risk operation suppliers with health and safety; completion rate: 100%
Assist high-risk operation contractors with ISO 45001 certification for occupational safety and health management system; completion rate: 100%
Ensure a cumulative total of 1,500 local suppliers participate in the ESH training program (Base year: 2016)
Support Local Suppliers
Ensure a cumulative total of 145 local raw materials suppliers receive support on process enhancement and quality improvement (Base year: 2016)
Encourage all major local raw materials suppliers and 75% of back-end packaging materials suppliers to participate in the Taiwan Continuous Improvement Competition with 60% of them advancing to the finals
Decent Work and
Economic Growth
Encourage Innovation
Maintain TSMC's technology leadership and invest 8.5% of revenue R&D expenses annually
Over 50,000 global patents granted
Offer 1,200 process technologies and 170 packaging technologies in line with TSMC technology roadmap
Green Product Innovation
Decrease the Product Environmental Footprint by 30% for each unit product (Base year: 2010)
Industry, Innovation
and Infrastructure
Reduce Industrial Waste Output
Outsource ≦ 0.5 of unit waste disposal per wafer (kg/12-inch equivalent wafer mask layers)
Promote a Circular Economy
Develop multiple types of electronics-grade chemicals for recycling within TSMC
Reduce waste production among major local suppliers by 35% (Base year: 2014)
Chemicals Management
Develop analytical abilities for carcinogenic, mutagenic, and reprotoxic substances for all materials and assist major suppliers in developing such abilities
Replace NMP 100% (Base year: 2016)
Ensure that all processes are free from PFASs with more than 4 carbon atoms
Better Recycling
Reduce air pollutant emissions per unit product by 50% (Base year: 2015)
>98% reduction rate of volatile organic gases
Facilitate Health Management
Ensure zero cases of occupational hazard caused by exposure to chemicals
Responsible
Consumption and
Implement Mitigation Strategies to
Climate Risks
Reduce GHG emissions per unit product (MTCO2e/12-inch equivalent wafer mask layers) by 40%
Ensure all high-energy-consumption suppliers receives ISO 14064-1 certification for GHG emissions; completion rate: 100%
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0 days of production interruption due to climate disasters
Strengthen Supply Chain Climate Resilience
Invite suppliers to observe our annual emergency response drill; cumulative total of 300 suppliers have observed the drill (Base year: 2016)
Environmental/Energy-saving Volunteers
Ensure 1,200 volunteer services annually for environmental causes
Climate Action