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There is no shortage of topics for someone writing about sustainability in May. April went from having Earth Day to being earth month, with sustainability press releases on nearly a daily basis. A significant number of companies use April and May as their release dates for company responsibility reports with...
SEMI Europe’s Industry strategy Symposium (ISS 2023) took place as an in-person-only event on February 15-16, 2023, at Hilton Vienna Park Hotel, Vienna, Austria. For me, this was the best ISS Europe ever. That’s not only because it is the first ISS Europe that I attended, but also because this...
Two interesting pieces of climate news emerged in the second week of January 2023. The first was a report in the Wall Street Journal about the cost of damage due to climate incidences. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said this week that weather-related disasters caused $165 billion of...
Sustainability has become one of the key focus points for the semiconductor industry. When the big customers/users of chips – Apple, Google, AWS, META, and Microsoft – started to look at how to manage scope 3 emissions, they mandated semiconductor companies to work to meet net zero by 2040 or...
The last month has been an interesting time in the world of sustainability. First, the SEC released its estimates on costs for reporting on climate change, and a document for review on suggested reporting standards. The S&P Dow Jones index removed Tesla from its top 10 ESG index, The Davos...
SEMICON Europa is back! On the agenda? The latest innovations and smart applications powering the next wave of semiconductor industry growth, including leading-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), 5G and robotics. SEMICON Europa 2021, co-located with Productronica, will examine how the semiconductor industry can integrate environmental and social sustainability...
Most semiconductor equipment companies have been focused on sustainability programs longer than most other industries. In part, some of the focus is probably due to customers, such as Intel and ST Microelectronics, that have had sustainability or environmental programs of some sort since 1993. In 2019, at the last face-to-face...
Over the last 18 months, the European semiconductor industry has felt the repercussions of supply chain interruptions due COVID 19 and trade wars, combined with exploding global demand for chips driven by the digital transformation. There are also questions about regional sovereignty and the need to strengthen the local supply...
You have probably heard that what gets measured is what matters. That is the idea behind sustainability reporting. Companies that issue reports make a public statement about their past actions and future goals around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. Sustainability reporting is no substitute for action, but it can...
In my day job in the winter, I work in the ski industry, which is working very hard on sustainability and becoming greener. On Earth Day, my inbox was filled with how companies that supply the ski industry are being sustainable, and more importantly are working to drive awareness in...
