Climate Change and Adaptation

Climate Change and Adaptation
Faced with the changing industrial structure and technological trend, enterprises must actively innovate for sustainable operation. Compal understands that relying on more mining, more consumption and more use of resources, it can no longer obtain a long-term competitive advantage. When society, market and nature require us to pay for the use of energy and natural resources, only by becoming “greener” than others can we completely make a change. Therefore, we shall actively respond to the operational risks brought by climate change, avoid impacts and losses, and seize relevant opportunities to gain market opportunities.

Greenhouse Gas Management
The impact, adjustment and mitigation of global climate change has become one of the most important environmental issues in the world. In order to strengthen the green practices of Compal, we must first understand the performance of our existing environmental actions, hoping to make continuous improvement from the inside out and create sustainable value for the Company. Compal uses the carbon emisssions inventory to evaluate the effectiveness of the greenhouse gas management, and confirm the accuracy of the data through a third-party verification unit.

Goals  and  Progress
Since 2009, Compal has carried out greenhouse gas surveys (Scope 1 and Scope 2) in 2009, ahead of all industry peers, and finished the validation work in 2010. We recalibrated and set 2019 as the benchmark year for carbon emission, so that it is closer to carbon reduction benchmark. It is tiered into short, medium- and long-term reduction goals. For each year 4.2% of reduction shall be achieved from its previous year, and 50% reduction as the mid-term goal in 2030. Gradually achieve the goal of RE100 and net zero emissions by 2050. We have joined SBTi, one of international initiatives, and expect to reach the target of carbon reduction by 2024.
 
Impoprtant Processes of Greenhouse Gas Inventory
2010 The greenhouse gas survey was conducted for the first time using 2009 data, and was later validated by an outside party
Compal produced the world's first netbook that passed ISO14067/CD and PAS2050 certification for carbon footprint
Compal participated in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) for the very first time
2011 Compal's netbook was certified by the Environmental Protection Administration in Taiwan for Carbon Footprint Label
2013 The greenhouse gas survey was expanded to include the Chengdu and Chongqing Plants
Participated in "Kunshan City Carbon Footprint Restructuring and Upgrade Project;" collaborated with the Industrial Technology Research Institute in promoting carbon footprint analysis among suppliers
2014 For the first time, the greenhouse gas survey was expanded to include 3 business flights by employees of Taiwan Headquarters
2015 Organizational inventory was expanded to include the Nanjing and Bacheng Plants
2017 Organizational inventory was expanded to include the Chongqing and Renbao Plants. Both facilities completed the survey
2018 Organizational inventory was expanded to include Compal Brazil Plant
2019 Added and verified Scope 3 inventory for CQA
2020 Organizational inventory was expanded to include Compal Vietnam plant
2021 Organizational verification was expanded to include Compal Vietnam plant
2022 Organizational inventory expanded to include all subsidiaries in consolidated financial report
 
 

Greenhouse Gas Survey
Since 2010, Compal has been conducting the ISO 14064-1 greenhouse gas inventory with external verification for plants in Taiwan and China. The GWP value from the 5th IPCC Report issued in 2013 was adopted from 2020 onwards due to a revision of the standards. The default fuel coefficient used the IPCC 2006 edition while the power coefficient for our plants referred to the latest published figures from National Development and Reform Commission of China and Bureau of Energy (Taiwan).
Compal has included scope 3 of GHG emissions in the inventory since 2021. By measuring carbon emissions at all stages including raw material extraction, manufacturing, distribution, usage, and waste disposal, we can further expand our climate impact. This will help Compal to learn about the contribution of its upstream and downstream activities to emissions. To identify activities with higher emissions in the value chain, thus providing more precise guidance to implement emission reduction strategies. We expect to realize the carbon-neutral vision of Compal's corporate operations by introducing low-carbon manufacturing, promoting low-carbon product design, strengthening sustainable supply chain management processes, and applying ESG key performance indicators to build a corporate probing management system.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions (tCO2e)
Greenhouse Gas Reduction

The nature of Compal’s industry means that GHG emissions are concentrated in externally purchased energy. 8,008,485 kWh of solar power, 113,604,723 kWh of hydro power and 20,000,000 kWh of renewable energy certificates were also purchased to reduce actual carbon emissions by 80,762,012.682 KG CO2e.

With reference to the GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3), Compal has identified scope 3 emissions based on its operational characteristics and product features, and devised corresponding reduction solutions.

In 2022, emissions per NT$1 million of revenue decreased by 0.142 compared to the 2019, and we are now striving to realize the target of a 50% reduction by 2030.

Action Strategies and Plans

The impact of climate change, and natural disasters such as high temperatures, droughts, and floods pose the greatest risk to Compal's operations. To address these changes, the relevant departments of Compal's global plants have conducted risk assessmentsand and set up Emergency Disaster Response Plan(EDRP). Each plant conducts process drills based on the EDRP regularly to familiarize all relevant employees with contingency measures for different disasters and enhance the corresponding skills. Furthermore, the EDRP will be reviewed each year to make relevant improvements. By following the EDRP and related action plans, each plant should be equipped with the capability to realize the goal of  Business Continuity and be able to minimize the negative impacts of climate change.. At the same time, to achieve Compal's carbon-neutral vision, we are actively engaged in various initiatives, such as increasing the use of renewable energy in our global plants, setting up storm water monitoring system, elevating low-lying plant, improving the use of food products with a lower carbon footprint in our employee restaurants, and using electronic gift cards.
Items Scope of Implementation Description
Renewable Energy Kunshan, Nanjing, and Chongqing 8,008,485 kWh of solar power, 113,604,723 kWh of hydro power and 20,000,000 kWh of renewable energy certificates were purchased to reduce actual carbon emissions by 80,762,012.682 KG CO2e.
E-vouchers Taipei Headquarters Every employee is entitled to 5 gift vouchers per year, including the three major holidays, their birthdays and end-of-year bonus. The use of e-voucher not only saves paper, conserves water resources but also prevents the waste of manpower and energy used in transportation.
"Energy and Environmental Monitoring" platform Kunshan, Nanjing, Chongqing, Chengdu, Pingzhen Build a real-time dashboard to understand the energy consumption and water consumption of the plant in time. Calculate daily energy usage budget based on production capacity and provide energy saving tips to employees at any time. To create new methods to improve energy efficiency, and to choose energy-saving products when energy-consuming equipment needs to be replaced.
 
 
Updated on July 18, 2023