SEMI SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE REPORTS AND WHITEPAPERS
The Evolving Path for Waste in Semiconductor Manufacturing
The Evolving Path for Waste in Semiconductor Manufacturing
April 2026
This report was developed to support the adoption of circular design principles and resource recovery practices across the semiconductor manufacturing value chain. This report streamlines discovery, accelerates adoption, and creates greater visibility into how peers are advancing circularity.
Water Management Reports: 1) Procedures Guide 2) Baseline and Water Savings Guide with Maturity Scale
March 2026
These documents have been developed by the SEMI Water Management Working Group to provide insights into improving a company's water posture. Developed to go beyond the existing standards and the desired end-state, they give insights into new technologies, water balance calculations and setting useful goals for new solutions.
Cost Benefit Calculator
March 2026 (SCC Members only)
The SCC Cost Benefit Calculator is a practical framework for prioritizing semiconductor decarbonization projects. It is simple and flexible and offers a structured starting point for evaluating carbon emissions and making a clear, consistent and financially credible case for investments - the download is in 2 parts: 1) PDF - Guide on how to use the tool and 2) XLS - Spreadsheet for doing the calculations.
Taiwan’s Low Carbon Energy Procurement Challenges & Solutions Report
March 2026 (Public)
This report offers several policy recommendations and expectations to promote the sustained growth of renewable energy and address SEMI members’ demand for stable and high-quality green power in Taiwan. Available in both English and Mandarin.
Risks & Opportunities for Decarbonising Japan's Power Sector
October 2025 (Public)
A call for urgent action on Japan's energy transition for continued decarbonisation of the semiconductor value chain.
Product Carbon Footprint Strategy and Methodology Development
November 2025
This SCC Members-Only report aims to remove barriers emissions reporting and promote exchange of emissions data to enable product carbon footprint (PCF) calculations. This roadmap aims to identify critical issues that must be resolved and to outline a framework for implementing common methodological rules for our sector.
Ripple Effects: Water Risk & Resilience Across the Semiconductor Value Chain
October 2025 (Public)
This insights report presents a comprehensive assessment of water-related risks across the global semiconductor value chain. By analyzing 140 semiconductor production facilities across 89 unique water basins worldwide, the report establishes the first global baseline of water risk hotspots in the semiconductor sector.
Internal Carbon Pricing: Guiding the Decarbonization of the Semiconductor Value Chain
September 2025 (Public)
This paper provides a best practice guide to defining an Internal Carbon Price within the semiconductor industry. It helps companies understand the process, its benefits, and
the opportunities it offers. Our collective recommended strategy for implementing an ICP in your organization involves five key steps.
Writing the Next Chapter for Korea's Renewable Energy Policy (English and Korean)
Aug 2025 (Public)
This recommendation paper, published in both Korean and English) calls on South Korea to advance renewable energy procurement through diversified options, stronger Green Premium additionality and transparency, deployment of a Utility Green Tariff (UGT), and innovative PPA models—accelerating the clean energy transition and driving industry decarbonization.
Energy Collaborative Report: Key Challenges and Potential Solutions for Expansion and Procurement of Low-Carbon Electricity
Aug 2024 - June 2025 (Public)
These position papers present the SEMI Energy Collaborative's findings on the current challenges for Low Carbon Energy (LCE) installations and procurement in Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan, and suggest potential solutions for policy makers, LCE developers, and semiconductor industry players to further increase the pace and scale of access to LCE.
Scope 3 Category 11 GHG Assessment: Guidelines for the Semiconductor Sector
May 2025 (Public)
The Guideline establishes a comprehensive framework for promoting clarity and consistency in assessing and accounting for Scope 3 Category 11: Use of Sold Products (3.11) emissions across the semiconductor industry value chain. The Guideline was created by the leaders and members of the Semiconductor Climate Consortium (SCC) Scope 3 Working Group with the support of ERM and originally published in April, 2025.
Material Circularity Across the Semiconductor Value Chain: Prioritizing and Mobilizing Action
April 25 (Public)
This report – a collaboration between SEMI and imec – presents an inventory of 69 distinct materials prioritized for circularity along with the framework for ranking. The outputs will be immediately useful for decision-makers across functions in the semiconductor value chain for driving impactful circular initiatives at their firms.
S3 - Startups for Sustainable Semiconductors: A Model for Ecosystem-Collaborative Industrial Decarbonization
March 2025 (Public)
The program seeks to ease the friction startups may experience in accessing the industry, with the ultimate goal to accelerate decarbonization timelines of the semiconductor ecosystem as a whole. By collaborating in this way, intensive competition gives way to sector advancement on a larger and more efficient scale to the benefit of the sector and sustainability overall. This paper provides the framework and metrics of the program as a roadmap to other funders, as well as some background on the sustainability challenges facing the semiconductor industry for potential applicants.
Toward a Shared View on the Climate Impact of Digital Technology
February 2025 (Public)
This paper presents a holistic approach for considering the total environmental impact of the digital technology sector, both positive and negative. It proposes a standard definition, scope and methids for calculating digital technology handprints. Overall, it promotes a more accurate on the role of digital technology in achieving net zero.
Overview of F-GHG and Nitrous Oxide Semiconductor Abatement Technologies
February 2025 (Public)
This whitepaper examines the current landscape of abatement technologies used to mitigate GHG emissions in semiconductor manufacturing and industries that use semiconductor processes. It provides an in-depth analysis of the strengths and limitations of existing solutions, outlines infrastructure considerations, and explores future technologies that could play a vital role in achieving the industry's sustainability goals.
SCC Emissions Reporting Protocol Working Group: Baseline Research Paper
December 2024 (Mbr-only)
For membership information, please visit the Semiconductor Climate Consortium page or email us at [email protected].
Semiconductor Process Emissions Metrology for Improved Confidence in Reporting Greenhouse Gas Emissions
November 2024 (Mbr-only)
PFAS Explainer
June 2024 (Public)
The Rising Tide: Building a Climate-Resilient Semiconductor Value Chain
April 2024 (Public)
This report uses the Nasdaq Sustainable Lens™, an AI-powered ESG intelligence platform, to analyze and assess the maturity level of each segment of the semiconductor value chain based on publicly available sustainability and climate information of 100 leading semiconductor companies against TCFD recommendations. We reviewed over 2,200 corporate annual financial reports, sustainability reports, low-carbon transition and climate action plans and other sustainability and climate information released between 2021 and 2023. The platform uncovered five key takeaways which are highlighted in the report.
Scope 3 Category 1 GHG Assessment: Guidelines for the Semiconductor Sector
January 2024 (Public)
The Guidelines were created to establish a comprehensive framework that promotes clarity and consistency in accounting for Scope 3.1 emissions across the semiconductor industry. It provides guidance for overcoming shared challenges faced by companies in assessing Scope 3.1 emissions. The Guidelines' intended audience is SCC member companies and other organizations operating in the semiconductor industry, who seek to enhance their Scope 3.1 carbon footprint assessment. The Guidelines are founded upon established international standards, notably the GHG Protocol.
Transparency, Ambition, and Collaboration: Advancing the Climate Agenda of the Semiconductor Value Chain
October 2023 (Public)
The SEMI Semiconductor Climate Consortium’s BAR Working Group and BCG, created this report to provide the first inside out view of the semiconductor ecosystems’ Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions profile with the most comprehensive available data from the industry. If you are interested in participating in the ongoing work of the SCC, the Baselining, Ambition-setting and Roadmapping (BAR) Working Group of the SCC, contact us at [email protected].
