Qualcomm has supported the Paris Agreement since 2015, with Nate Tibbits, the company’s senior vice president of Government Affairs, calling it a “strong step forward toward a low-carbon, sustainable future” in a blog post. At the time, Tibbits revealed that the chipmaker was setting out to reduce its Scope 1 & 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 30% by 2025.
But, with the 2021 UN COP26 summit as a backdrop, Qualcomm recently updated its sustainability pledge to address the Paris Agreement’s call to action more aggressively. Qualcomm is now promising to achieve net-zero emissions by 2040 by first reducing its Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 50% from base 2020 levels by 2030. Next, the company will reduce of its Scope 3 emissions by 25% from where they were in 2020.
