Macroblock

With the duty of maintaining environmental safety and health, Macroblock is committed to meet the regulations related to environmental safety and health.
 

1. Regulatory compliance and other requirements:
   
   It conforms to the environmental safety and health related laws and regulations and meets the requirements of prohibited substance proposed by the customers, so as to mitigate the impact on the environment.
    
2. Purchase and develop green products:
   
   It purchases the products with eco-friendly label and the products that meet the conditions of renewable material, recycle, low pollution or energy conservation as certified by the Environmental Protection Administration. The green supply chain is imported in the full process, so as to develop/use the raw material with low pollution.
    
3. Promote energy conservation and implement waste reduction:
   
   The Company is a professional IC design company, and is mainly engaged in IC design and sale businesses. Without process and production operation in the Company, it belongs to the industry with low pollution and low risk. The emission source is only from the air-conditioning system and office lighting system, so it is inapplicable to ISO14001 or similar environmental protection system certification. The Company is dedicated to the environmental protection work in long terms, with the expectation to achieve the corporate growth and ecological preservation. In addition, to respond to the related information of RoHS, the products of the Company meet the related provisions under RoHS.

Annual CO2 emission of the past two years:

    CO2 emission of the Company is only from the power and water consumption of the air-conditioning system and the office lighting system:

    In 2018: The total emission from power and water consumption was 300 MT of CO2.

    In 2019: The total emission from power and water consumption was 623 MT of CO2.

    In 2019, it doubled compared with 2018. CO2 emissions were mainly due to the increase in new factories and  personnel.

   
GHG reduction policies:

1. ​The influence or impact degree of the Company on GHG discharge:
    
   1. Risk of the Company due to the laws and regulations related to climate change
       It is not a company listed under the first and second batches that shall report the GHG emission as announced by the “Stationary Pollution Source of GHG Emission to Be Reported in Public and Private Occasions”, so there is no risk of regulatory violation.
       
   2. Substantial risk of the Company due to climate change
      The Company is of IC design industry, without wafer plant. As for the substantial risk due to climate change, the power and water consumed by air-conditioning system and office lighting system will be increased.
       
   3. Opportunities brought for the Company by climate change
      In terms of product design, it may provide more power-saving schemes, so as to increase the probability of adopting the product.
       
   4. (Direct/indirect) GHG emission of the Company (specifying the inspection scope and time), and the external validation passed or not by taking 2017 as the reference year for inspection, it performs GHG emission inspection based on ISO14064, which is not validated externally. According to the self-inspection result, the annual GHG emission is equivalent to 274 MT of CO2, which is within【Scope 2】, and is generated from indirect emission of energy. 
       
2. Strategies, methods and goals of the Company for GHG management:
    
   1. Strategies adopted by the Company to cope with climate change or GHG management.
      
      The Company is of IC design industry, without wafer plant. It is indirect GHG emission mainly from the power consumed by air-conditioning system and office lighting system.
      The power consumption is reduced in a power-saving way. Moreover, the product efficiency is increased, and the power-saving architecture is adopted.
       
   2. GHG emission reduction goal of the Company
      
      As the emission source is mainly from the power and water consumer by the air-conditioning system and the office lighting system, the annual emission is positively related to the number of employees. Through advocacy of administrative management, it makes the air-conditioning system run more efficiently, so as to reduce unnecessary waste.
       
   3. Budget and plan of GHG emission reduction of the Company
       
      1. Currently, the Company turns off the lighting and air-conditioning systems at nights, to reduce the electricity and water consumption.
      2. The Company will use the electronic sign-off sheet continuously, so as to reduce the used paper and move towards the paperless goal.
      3. The underground parking lot of the building adopts the smart dimmable lighting scheme developed by the Company, which can save 60%~78% of the electricity expense.
      4. The plant of the Company has changed to use the power-saving lamps, which can save about 60%~70% of the lighting expense every year.
          
   4. Carbon reduction effect brought by the Company’s products or services for the customers or consumers.
      
      Under the changes of macro environment, energy saving and carbon reduction have become the primary requirements for the electronic parts and components. The main products of the Company are LED driver IC and LED related products. Therefore, our goal is to develop the power saving products constantly.