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Environmental Policy and Management

Environmental Policy and Management

Environmental, Health and Safety Policy and Committment

Acer endeavors to achieve balanced development in economy, environment and society. We understand that all our products, services and activities have potential impact to the environment and community where we conduct business, so we are devoted to environmental protection. When the company needs to conduct business mergers and acquisitions or business cooperation in response to market needs and organizational development, due diligence will be conducted objectively. We are also dedicated to providing a safe and healthy workplace for employees believing that occupational health and safety is the foundation of sound and responsible business operation. We ensure all employees understand their roles and responsibilities and require our suppliers, service providers, contractors, outsourcing partners, logistics companies, mergers and acquisitions and value chain partners to reduce environmental impact though life cycle assessment management and abide by Acer’ environmental, safety and health policy to jointly achieve our commitments to the environment and our health and safety performance.

Environmental, Health and Safety Policy

 

 

Acer's environmental safety and health policy was revised in 2025 and reviewed, approved, and supervised by the board of directors of Acer.

Scope

This Environmental, health and safety policy is applicable to Acer Group. We take this environment, health and safety policy into consideration in all aspects, and require employees, customers, suppliers and partners to take actions together with Acer that consistent with the standards of this policy.

Acer's environmental safety and health policy was revised in 2025 and reviewed, approved, and supervised by the board of directors of Acer.

Management Guidelines

  • Set up an environmental, health and safety management unit, led by the top management. We set quantitative goals and prioritize actions every year. In the meantime, continuously to implement, promote, supervise, and improve related plans to ensure the achievement of goals and effective implementation of the system.
  • Comply with ISO standard, the relevant laws and commit ourselves to going beyond industry standards.
  • Stay abreast of global climate change issues, commit to the use of renewable energy, strive to improve energy efficiency actively and prevent pollution. In addition, setting energy use and waste reduction targets, increasing resource productivity and reducing environmental impact.
  • Sharing sustainable expertise and experience to value chain partners and suppliers to exert social influence.
  • Employ green design, carefully select suppliers and materials, and provide safe products with low environment impact.
  • Consulting external stakeholders in the development or implementation of the environmental policy.
  • Provide a safe and healthy workplaces to protect the physical and mental health of those who work for us and minimize occupational health and safety risks.
  • Deepen the awareness of ESH among all employees through training and disseminating. By setting up a consultation and audit activities, which require involvement of all employees, to continuously improve and enhance the performance of environment, health, and safety.

 

Supplementary Provisions

 

  • The Environmental, Health and Safety Policy and its amendments shall come into force after resolved by the Board of Directors.
  • The policy was approved on Aug 7, 2025.
 

Commitment to the Environment

Design and Development

Our product design incorporates considerations of recyclability, easy disassembly, low pollution, energy saving, and resource saving.

  • Energy Saving:Through product design, we strive to improve product efficiency.
  • Resource Saving:Actively make use of recycled materials by incorporating the concept of circular economy.
  • Low Pollution:We strive to reduce the impact of our products on the environment.

Operations and Management

  • We take the potential impact of climate change into consideration in our overall operations, and formulate plans for risk response and mitigation measures.

Procurement and the Supply Chain

  • Suppliers must adhere to the RBA Code of Conduct, Responsible Minerals Procurement Management Policy, and Restricted Substances Control Guidelines, as well as implementing responsible and green procurement.
  • Through continual cooperation with our supply chain partners, we boost the green competitiveness of our overall supply chain.

Transportation and Logistics

  • We are committed to improving transportation efficiency and reducing energy consumption during transportation.
  • Our product packaging minimizes materials usage through using reusable and recyclable materials.

Environmental Goals

GHG

 

Environmental Goals

  • Acer commits to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across the value chain by 2050 from a 2020 base year
  • In 2030, operation carbon emissions (Scope 1, 2) will be reduced by 50% compared to the base year of 2019 (SBTi-approved targets)
  • In 2030, value chain carbon emissions (Scope 3) will be reduced by 35% compared to the base year of 2020 (SBTi-approved targets)
 

2024 Achievement Status

  • 38.7%
  • 39.6%
  • 38.8%

Renewable Electricity

 

Environmental Goals

  • 100% renewable electricity usage by 2035
 

2024 Achievement Status

  • 60%

Water

 

Environmental Goals

  • Total water consumption in 2030 needs to be reduced by 30% compared to the baseline year 2019
 

2024 Achievement Status

  • Target not met. Total water consumption increased by 6.2% compared to 2023, driven by an increase in the number of employees and office locations worldwide. However, per capita water consumption decreased by 8.1% compared to 2023.

Waste

 

Environmental Goals

  • The amount of waste disposal in 2030 needs to be reduced by 30% compared to the baseline year 2019
 

2024 Achievement Status

  • Target not met. The increase of 4.9% in total waste compared to 2023 was primarily driven by the expansion in global workforce and office sites. However, per capita waste generation decreased by 9.1%.

Environmental Management

To achieve the sustainable goal of environmental protection, we require two categories of global office locations—those with more than 100 employees and those with less than 100 employees but engaged in high-risk operations—to implement the Environmental Management System (EMS) through third-party certification or internal management. At the same time, these offices must establish working groups that follow the PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) management cycle to carry out various tasks, including environmental risk assessments. Statistics show that the global EMS coverage rate reached 100% during 2023-2024.

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