Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Index

Letter from the CSR Committee Chairperson

Topic

Code

Accounting Metric

Category

Report Contents or Explanation

Unit 2020 2021

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

TC-SC-110a.1

  • Gross global Scope 1 emissions
  • Total emissions from perfluorinated compounds
Quantitative
  • metric tons CO2-e
  • metric tons CO2-e
2,004,841
516,864
2,151,937
529,337

TC-SC-110a.2

  • Discussion of long-term and short-term strategy or plan to manage Scope 1 emissions, emissions reduction targets, and an analysis of performance against those targets
Discussion and Analysis

Energy Management in Manufacturing

TC-SC-130a.1
  • Total energy consumed
  • Percentage grid electricity
  • Percentage renewable
Quantitative 60,908,400
95%
7.3%
69,091,200
94%
8.7%

Water Management

TC-SC-140a.1
  • Total water withdrawn
  • Total water consumed, percentage of each in regions with High or Extremely High Baseline Water Stress
Quantitative
  • thousand m3
  • %
  • thousand m3
  • %
Please see Water Management: Manage Water Resource Risk
77,257
4.0%
72,255
1.0%
82,824
3.8%
77,074
0.5%

Waste Management

TC-SC-150a.1
  • Amount of hazardous waste from manufacturing, percentage recycled
  • Amount of in-house recycled hazardous waste
Quantitative
  • metric tons
  • %
  • metric tons
Please see Recycling Resources
440,714
98%
142,314
510,700
98%
171,076

Employee Health & Safety

TC-SC-320a.1
  • Description of efforts to assess, monitor, and reduce exposure of employees to human health hazards
Discussion and Analysis
TC-SC-320a.2
  • Total amount of monetary losses as a result of legal proceedings associated with employee safety and health violations
Quantitative
  • Company has no significant monetary losses as a result of legal proceedings associated with employee safety and health violations
Recruiting & Managing a Global & Skilled Workforce TC-SC-330a.1
  • Percentage of employees that are (1) foreign nationals and (2) located offshore
Quantitative
  • %
Please see Talent Attraction and Retention
Product Lifecycle Management TC-SC-410a.1
  • Percentage of products by revenue that contain IEC 62474-declarable substances
Quantitative
  • %
0.16% 0.06%
TC-SC-410a.2
  • Processor energy efficiency at a system level for: (1) servers, (2) desktops, and (3) laptops
Quantitative
  • TSMC is working with customers to innovate with new generations of chips and create more energy efficient electronic products. Please see 2020 TSMC CSR Report
Materials Sourcing TC-SC-440a.1
  • Description of the management of risks associated with the use of critical materials
Discussion and Analysis
Intellectual Property Protection & Competitive Behavior TC-SC-520a.1
  • Total monetary losses as a result of legal proceedings associated with anticompetitive behavior regulations
Quantitative