Intel

OPERATIONAL SUPPLY CHAIN

Responsible

• Employee Safety and Wellness – Intel has long been known for their strong safety culture, particularly in its manufacturing operations. its new goal will enable them to maintain its strong safety culture as Intelgrow and expand the global impact of its wellness programs.
• Supply Chain Human Rights – Over the past decade, they have directly engaged with its suppliers to ensure compliance and build capacity to address risks of forced and bonded labor and other human rights issues. its new goal will significantly expand the number of suppliers covered by its engagement activities to deepen accountability for human rights throughout its global supply chain. Scale its supplier responsibility programs to ensure respect for human rights across 100% of its Tier 1 contracted suppliers and higher risk Tier 2 suppliers 
• Community Impact – Over the past decade, its employees have donated more than 10 million volunteer hours, a leadership level based on benchmarking against other U.S. technology companies. Providing skills-based volunteering opportunities has enabled them to support its employees’ interest in sharing their technical and professional expertise directly with local schools and non-profit organizations, which often cannot afford these types of services. its 2030 goal will enable them to continue to provide this high level of support for its local communities and increase its impact by expanding skills-based volunteering.

Inclusive

• Workforce Inclusion – Intel met its 2020 goal to achieve full representation in its U.S. workforce for women and underrepresented minorities, and achieved global gender pay equity. Intel has taken actions to integrate its inclusion expectations into its culture evolution, performance management systems, leadership expectations, and annual bonus metrics. Intel is proud of the progress Intel has made to date, but Intel is not satisfied. Globally, approximately 90% of its employees are in technical roles, with 25% of its female employees in technical roles. In addition, 18% of senior leadership roles are held by women and 7% are held by underrepresented minorities. its 2030 goals are designed to accelerate progress on its inclusion objectives.
• Accessibility – Intel has been strengthening its cross-Intel accessibility initiatives, but Intel sees an opportunity to do more to attract and retain talent who self-identify as having a disability. Through its 2030 goal, Intel will drive a sustained culture of accessibility—embracing technology to eliminate barriers, foster innovation, and empower all people to reach their full potential.
• Supplier Diversity – Intel achieved $1 billion in annual spending with diverse suppliers as part of its 2020 goals and will build on this foundation to double its annual spending and expand inclusive sourcing practices over the next decade.

Sustainable

• Climate/Energy – Intel has achieved a 31% reduction in absolute Scope 1 and 2 emissions since 2000, even as Intel expanded its manufacturing capacity significantly. In that time Intel increased its use of renewable energy to 100% in the U.S. and EU, 50% in Israel, and more than 70% globally, and saved >4.5 billion kWh of energy between 2012-2020. Intel has driven a 14x improvement in product energy efficiency for notebooks and a 8.5x improvement in data center products since 2010. its new goals will enable them to continue to reduce its direct carbon impact even as Intel continues to grow its manufacturing operations.
• Water – Over the past 10 years, Intel conserved 44 billion gallons of water, enough to sustain over 400,000 U.S. homes for one year. Achievement of its new 2030 goal will increase water conserved to record-high levels for Intel over the coming decade. Intel also will go beyond the aspirations of its existing 2025 water restoration goal in order to achieve net positive water use by 2030, including funding projects in water-stressed areas.
• Zero Waste/Circular Economy – Since the mid-1990s, Intel has increased its non-hazardous waste recycle rate from 25% to 93%, and achieved zero hazardous waste to landfill. its direct reuse and recovery of manufacturing waste has increased by 275% since 2015. its new goal will expand its zero waste goal to cover total waste and will drive a significant increase in the implementation of circular economy strategies across its global manufacturing operations

TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY INITIATIVES

Responsible

• Responsible minerals. Expand their efforts beyond conflict minerals to cover all minerals used in semiconductor manufacturing and apply the learnings to lead their industry in creating new sourcing standards. In 2008, Intel began work to ensure that its supply chain does not source conflict minerals,1 defined as tantalum, tin, tungsten, and gold (referred to as “3TG”) within the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. Intel is proud of the progress Intel has made, with 99.6% of the 227 identified smelter and refiner facilities that process 3TG in its value chain meeting its requirements in 2019. As Intel looks to 2030, its ambition is to apply its learnings from the past decade and work with its industry to broaden and accelerate the creation of sourcing standards for a much wider set of minerals across additional regions.
• Responsible mobility. Collaborate with their industry and ecosystem partners to advance the adoption of technology-neutral safety standards to reduce traffic accidents globally. According to the World Health Organization, 1.35 million people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes. More than half of all road traffic deaths are among vulnerable road users—pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists—and 93% occur in low- and middle-income countries. Intel’s Mobileye business is the global leader in the development of computer vision and machine learning-based sensing, data analysis, localization, mapping, and driving policy technology for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving to advance automotive safety, including its Responsibility-Sensitive Safety or “RSS” model. They will leverage this position and their expertise to work across the industry and with policymakers to make these technologies broadly accessible and affordable, in an effort to save and improve lives.

Inclusive

• Inclusion index. Drive full inclusion and accessibility across the technology industry by creating and implementing a Global Inclusion Index with common metrics to advance progress. Within the technology sector, an average of only 11% of senior leadership roles are held by women, and women of color only make up 4% of the computing workforce.3 One key gap identified in the Reboot Representation report from McKinsey and Pivotal Ventures is the lack of consistent and comparable definitions and data regarding inclusion at the industry level. Intel aims to work together with other technology companies and partners to create a new standard industry index informed by and in partnership with existing diversity frameworks. Intel believes the index will enable companies, investors, and advocacy groups to more clearly identify root causes and actions needed to advance progress. 
• Inclusive pipeline. Expand the inclusive pipeline of talent for their industry through innovative global education initiatives and STEM programs for girls and underrepresented groups. Building a diverse and inclusive workforce and industry requires continued collective investments and innovative approaches to increasing diversity of the talent pipeline and expanding access to the education resources needed to pursue careers in its field. With insights gained through its new Global Inclusion Index and other research, Intel will convene others to take action, including the formation of new industry and educator collaborations and targeted investments at critical intervention points (e.g., engaging adolescent/middle school girls in interactive STEM activities). 

Sustainable

• Sustainable manufacturing. Create a collective approach to reducing emissions for the semiconductor manufacturing industry and increase the use of technology to reduce climate impact in global manufacturing. In the 1990s, Intel led an initiative to eliminate the use of Class 1 ozone-depleting substances in semiconductor manufacturing. Intel track its carbon emissions against science-based carbon targets and its new climate goals are informed by climate science. However, due to its (and its industry’s) early actions to reduce absolute emissions and the continued growth of demand for semiconductors, it remains challenging to gain formal approval for a target under the existing methodology of the Science-Based Targets Initiative. Intel sees an opportunity to again work with its industry and stakeholders to identify innovative approaches to reduce emissions. The ultimate goal is to expand the number of companies in its sector (as well as other manufacturing industries) setting approved science-based targets. 

SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY

• Enable greener and circular chemistry strategies across the technology industry value chain by transforming chemical footprint methodology. As part of Intel’s 2020 goals, Intel implemented a new process with its suppliers to complete green chemistry screening and selection for 100% of its new chemicals, focused on reducing inherent chemical hazards to human health and environment. Now Intel is initiating an effort to create a new methodology and metric that will encompass the full lifecycle of each chemical to reduce the total chemical impact over time. This approach will go beyond the assessment of inherent chemical hazards to also include factors such as volume of use, waste treatment, and disposal. Intel envisions this initiative (informed by and developed in partnership with existing frameworks) will enable Intel, its suppliers, and customers to assess the full lifecycle impact of each chemical used in order to create greener and circular economy strategies and reduce the industry’s collective footprint.