Climate Governance and Strategy
Governance
ASUS's Board of Directors serves as the highest governance body for climate action, with the Corporate Sustainability Committee established to review the Group's climate risk management and progress on carbon reduction targets. The Sustainability and Green Quality Management Center coordinates the Group's implementation progress, establishing a regular, tiered management mechanism to ensure that the Group's climate goals and strategies remain consistent and are effectively implemented.
Board of Directors
ASUS's corporate sustainability policy is approved by the Chairman, who serves as the Group's highest authority on sustainability-related matters, including approving climate change response strategies. Progress on climate action issues and goal management is reported to the Board regularly each year. Since 2022, reporting to the Board has been elevated to a quarterly basis to strengthen the Board's oversight of climate-related issues.
Corporate Sustainability Committee
In May 2025, the ASUS Board of Directors approved the establishment of the Corporate Sustainability Committee. Composed of five Independent Directors and two Co-CEOs, the Committee oversees four major sustainability issues across the ASUS Group (including all subsidiaries within the consolidated financial reporting boundary), including progress on SBTi carbon reduction targets. Each quarter, the Co-CEOs review the Group's climate risk management and subsidiaries' carbon reduction progress, which is reviewed by Committee members and reported to the Board.
Sustainability and Green Quality Management Center
The Chairman has instructed the CEO to serve as the highest-ranking management authority for climate change and sustainability, overseeing climate and other sustainability issues. The dedicated “Sustainability and Green Quality Management Center” has been established, with a Chief Sustainability Officer analyzing global sustainability trends and executing sustainability initiatives. Sustainability has also been incorporated as one of the task units under the Business Continuity Management Committee. Progress on climate management issues is reported to the Co-CEOs each quarter and subsequently to the Board.
Strategy
The threat of climate change continues to intensify, and “net-zero emissions by 2050” has become a core consensus in global climate action. According to UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2025, global greenhouse gas emissions reached a new historic high in 2024, and if current national policies remain unchanged, warming this century could reach 2.8°C—underscoring the urgency for industries worldwide to accelerate their low-carbon transition. ASUS follows the Net-Zero Standard of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and has established a three-stage climate transition pathway: the first stage prioritizes improving energy efficiency across its own operations and supply chain; the second stage expands the use of renewable energy, covering its own facilities; and the third stage addresses residual emissions constrained by technical or commercial feasibility through high-quality carbon credit offsets, driving the entire value chain toward net zero.
ASUS's Net-Zero Vision
2025
Improve Energy Efficiency
- Product energy efficiency 30% better than ENERGY STAR®
- Supply chain carbon reduction 30%
2030
Expand Renewable Energy
- Taiwan operations achieve RE100
2035
- Global operations achieve RE100
2050
Innovative Technologies
- Invest in innovative carbon reduction technologies
- Remove residual carbon emissions
- Progressively advance the value chain toward net zero
Climate Initiatives
SBTi
ASUS passed the SBTi Net-Zero Target validation in 2025. Following the 1.5°C reduction pathway, ASUS has committed to near-term targets for 2030 and long-term targets for 2050, covering its own operations (Scope 1 and Scope 2) as well as the supply chain and product use (Scope 3).
ASUS is progressively advancing the value chain toward net zero by improving energy efficiency, expanding the use of renewable energy, and adopting innovative technologies.
RE100
ASUS joined RE100 in 2021, committing to 100% renewable energy use at its Taiwan operations by 2030 and at its global operations by 2035.
In 2025, ASUS achieved RE55 renewable energy usage across its global operations centers. In Taiwan, locations including the ASUS headquarters and the AI Cloud Innovation Center receive wheeled solar power, and in the same year ASUS signed an onshore wind Corporate Power Purchase Agreement (CPPA), with wheeling delivery to formally commence in 2027, targeting RE85.
Taiwan Climate Partnership
As a founding member, ASUS is committed to leveraging its own experience to help upstream and downstream partners adopt renewable energy, digital carbon management, and improved energy efficiency to achieve carbon reduction goals.
In 2025, ASUS Co-CEO Samson Hu was appointed Vice Chairman of the Partnership and hosted a “Corporate Carbon Reduction Learning Event” in December of the same year, inviting Partnership members to visit ASUS. Through experience-sharing with sustainability benchmark enterprises, the Partnership accelerates carbon reduction actions and progress toward net-zero goals.
Taiwan Smart City Solutions Alliance
In 2025, ASUS Co-CEO Samson Hu assumed the role of Chairman of the Alliance for its 11th term, aiming to lead the dual transformation of digitalization and sustainability through concrete cross-sector integration of Taiwan's smart energy technologies and industry resources.
ASUS is also actively participating in the Alliance's newly established Virtual Power Plant (VPP) working group, serving as a member of the integration team to bring together resources and technologies across industry, academia, and government, and to promote policy support, standards development, and the exploration of innovative business models.
Net-Zero Green Lifestyle Alliance
Taiwan's Ministry of Environment established the “Net-Zero Green Lifestyle Alliance” as a matching platform between government, businesses, and green-living solution providers, promoting resource integration and the spread of low-carbon lifestyle practices.
Beyond becoming a participating company, ASUS Chief Sustainability Officer Charles Wu was invited to serve as an advisory committee member, providing recommendations from a business perspective and helping convey industry needs for adopting net-zero green living. ASUS's advocacy and legislative participation focuses on Taiwan, covering policy issues such as green consumption, low-carbon transportation, corporate green offices, sustainable procurement, and digital carbon management, aiming to help the government build a feasible and well-incentivized institutional environment that engages both businesses and the public in the low-carbon lifestyle transition.
