Purposeful Innovation
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Corporate Responsibility
At Qualcomm, we believe in the power of technology to enrich lives through purposeful innovation.
Empowering people. Transforming communities. Protecting the planet.
At Qualcomm, we believe in the power of technology. We invent technologies that have the power to catalyze social change and the potential to have a positive impact on society for the better—for everyone.
With the world becoming increasingly connected, we’re embracing the tremendous opportunity before us and innovating solutions to tackle global challenges, inspire the workforce of tomorrow, and make a lasting difference. We’re continuing to push the boundaries of what’s possible to ensure we reach our sustainability goals while maintaining our commitment to creating a better future for the world.
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EXPLORE OUR RESPONSIBILITIES
Our focus
We focus our efforts in four key areas.
Corporate responsibility at Qualcomm focuses on driving sustainable innovation in wireless technology to transform how the world connects, computes, and communicates. We strengthen our approach to corporate responsibility by undertaking regular, third-party materiality assessments. These assessments include research, interviews with key leaders from across the Company and engagement with stakeholders. The findings help us prioritize the corporate responsibility issues that are most important to our business and our key stakeholders. By identifying our top corporate responsibility priorities, we can then focus our resources, programs and reporting on these core topics.
Our priorities include four areas where we believe we can make the greatest impact while also ensuring the long-term success of our business. These corporate responsibility focus areas integrate our material priorities which are: Purposeful Innovation, Diversity and Inclusion, Ethics and Governance, Sustainable Product Design, Privacy and Security and Public Policy and Regulation.
STEM Education
We inspire the next generation of innovators to develop the workforce in STEM-based careers.
Responsible Business
We uphold the highest level of integrity and privacy protection with responsibly designed products, respect for human rights, and managing environmental impact.
Our People
We promote equality to make Qualcomm an inspiring and inclusive workplace that advances the development of leading-edge technologies.
Our Strategy
Corporate responsibility is part of everything we do.
We focus our efforts in four key areas where we believe we can have the biggest impact — Purposeful Innovation, STEM Education, Responsible Business, and Our People. From our daily operations to our stakeholder engagements, our commitment to corporate responsibility allows us to set goals that contribute to the long-term success of our business and our bottom line, while managing our social and environmental impacts.
Our Corporate Responsibility Policy articulates our overarching commitments to innovate responsibly.
Our 2025 Goals
Our 2025 goals build on our progress achieved by our 2020 goals. These goals serve as the milestones that will enable us to focus on key outcomes and stay on track to achieve our 2030 Vision. By 2025, we will:
- Reduce absolute Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions by 30% from global operations, compared to a 2014 baseline.
- Ensure 100% of primary semiconductor manufacturing suppliers are audited every 2-years for conformance to the Supplier Code of Conduct.
- Enrich the lives of 27 million people by continuing to bring technology to underserved communities around the world through Qualcomm® Wireless Reach™.
- Reduce power consumption by 10% , every year1 in our flagship Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ Mobile Platform products
- Increase representation of Women in leadership2 by 15% .
- Increase underrepresented minorities leadership (URM3) representation by 15% .
- Increase overall URM representation by 20% .
- Continue to foster next generation of innovators by inspiring 1.5 million students and teachers across the globe through our STEM initiatives.
Our 2030 Vision
Our 2030 Vision is our roadmap to inform big-picture thinking on sustainability issues that are most important to our Company, and it will help us identify where we can collaborate with key stakeholders to create sustainability solutions. Our 2030 Vision helps us identify what success looks like for each of our priority areas:
- Develop transformative mobile technologies that are widely adopted in support of a sustainable world.
- Employ a workforce that more closely reflects the demographics of the local communities in which we do business.
- Be recognized as a global leader in business conduct and ethics.
- Maintain adherence to our supplier code of conduct in our extended supply chain.
- Ensure that respect for human rights is integrated into all key business decisions.
- Sustainability and transparent management of our climate and water impacts across our value chain.
- Actively engage stakeholders in our corporate responsibility programs.
Our 2030 Goals
- Reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 50% by 2030 from a 2020 base year.
- Reduce absolute Scope 3 GHG emissions by 25% by 2030 from a 2020 base year.
Our 2040 Goal
- Reach net-zero global GHG emissions for Scopes 1, 2 and 3 by 2040.
1Given equivalent features
2 Leadership is defined as individuals at the Principal and above level in technical roles, and Director and above in non-technical roles For technical positions, “URM” includes Black, Latinx, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, and American Indian or Native American.
3For non-technical positions, “URM” includes Black, Latinx, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, American Indian or Native American, and Asian.
Our structure
Who’s responsible for corporate responsibility at Qualcomm? Everyone.
We’ve integrated corporate responsibility throughout our Company, from our daily operations to our executive leadership and our Board of Directors. Our governance structure exists to facilitate accountability, transparency and the ongoing improvement of our programs.
The Governance Committee of the Board provides oversight on corporate responsibility matters, including environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. Our Corporate Responsibility Leadership Committee reports at least annually on the Company’s corporate responsibility and ESG policies, programs, initiatives and reporting to the Governance Committee of the Board.
Our Corporate Responsibility Leadership Committee is composed of executives and senior management from across the Company, including human resources, legal, government affairs, supply chain, ethics and compliance, investor relations, operations and finance. It provides guidance on global corporate responsibility issues that are most important to Qualcomm and our key stakeholders so that corporate responsibility remains a central component of our business strategy.
Our Corporate Responsibility Governance Committee implements directives from the Leadership Committee into companywide programs, measures progress on achieving our goals, reports accomplishments and challenges. This Committee includes managers and other subject-matter experts from across our Company such as investor relations, supply chain management, diversity and inclusion, STEM education, environmental sustainability, health and safety and legal, amongst others.
Our Approach
Ongoing, transparent communications.
Conversations with our key stakeholders are essential to assuring that our corporate responsibility strategy aligns with the current needs of our business and meets the expectations of the people, organizations and communities that have an interest in our Company. These include our investors, employees, customers, suppliers, government officials and representatives of nonprofit organizations, among others. We consistently seek ways to better communicate with stakeholders and obtain their feedback on a variety of corporate responsibility-related topics.
OUR POLICIES AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES:
At Qualcomm, we leverage Qualcomm’s leading-edge technologies to enrich lives, transform communities, and protect the planet.
To find out more about how we are working to achieving our corporate responsibility vision and meeting our goals, access please read our different policies and guiding principles.
2020 Qualcomm Corporate Responsibility Report
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