In his opening speech to the TSMC Tenth Supply Chain Management Forum in 2010, TSMC Chairman Dr. Morris Chang said that while everyone faces the challenge of climate change and environmental protection, industry has particular responsibilities to do business in an environmentally sustainable way. We believe that to move forward requires us to maintain partnerships with suppliers and collaborate with them to reduce environmental impact. In recent years, institutions such as the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes and the Carbon Disclosure Project have brought greater scrutiny to corporate carbon footprinting, water footprinting, and climate change issues.

TSMC acknowledges responsibility for environmental protection. We not only comply with the environmental regulations of the locations where we operate, but also track new developments in global environmental issues, and take the lead in adopting new environmentally-friendly measures. In addition to protecting the environment of our manufacturing sites in Taiwan and around the world, we lead our suppliers to establish a green supply chain.

Concerning Global Climate Change Global climate change is a major environmental concern for the United Nations, every country, and TSMC, and we continuously monitor global climate change and international response trends as part of enterprise risk management decision-making....

Promoting Green Building TSMC began a "Green Fab Program" in 2005 to improve energy efficiency in buildings and minimize damage to the environment. The standards are the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (known as LEED) certification, and Taiwan's Ecology, Energy Saving, Waste Reduction, and Health (known as EEWH) certification. The intention of this program is to achieve certification by national and international green building standards for all new fabs...

Pursuing Green Manufacturing TSMC believes that pollution prevention is one of a corporation's most important responsibilities. TSMC's pollution prevention is based on the ISO 14001 environmental management system, and uses the "Plan-Do-Check-Act" management model to promote continuous improvement. We believe that conserving raw materials, energy, and resources as well as reducing waste and pollutants both saves production costs and protects the environment...

Providing Green Foundry Service and Product As the concept of sustainable development gains acceptance, product environmental impact evaluation has taken a more comprehensive approach of examining product life cycles, including raw material mining, transportation, product manufacturing, use and disposal to thoroughly evaluate environmental impact...

Building Sustainable Supply Chain TSMC has always treated suppliers as partners, and works together with them over the long term to build a stable and sustainable semiconductor supply chain. In addition to taking into account supply chain product quality, delivery, and cost, TSMC also works with our suppliers to protect the environment. We also pay attention to the human rights, safety and health issues of suppliers' plants as well as business continuity and risk management, so that we may fulfill our corporate social responsibility together....