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Intel and the environment

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Corporate Responsibility

Overview

At Intel, corporate responsibility and innovation go hand in hand. For decades, we have set ambitious sustainability goals and embedded ethical practices across our global operations.

Corporate Responsibility Report

By integrating corporate responsibility across our business, we have driven meaningful results and challenged ourselves to achieve higher levels of performance over time. Each year, we release a comprehensive report about our efforts, performance, and ambitions.

Executive Summary Report

Get a quick overview of our recent corporate responsibility highlights and strategy.

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Customize your own report with exactly the information you need and download additional resources like Intel’s GRI index, our UN Global Compact mapping, water and GHG emissions data, political contributions, past reports, localized reports, and more.

Report highlights

People

We believe that sustainable organizational success begins from within, rooted in our commitment to our people and understanding that technology is about connecting ideas, people, communities, and possibilities.

Helping Our Managers Grow

We received 80% favorable scores on trust and empowerment metrics in our 2025 Manager Engagement Survey. To address requests for enhanced AI tools, we launched a Manager AI chat series, collaborative learning platforms designed to build AI proficiency, and a Manager Exchange Community of Practice for peer-to-peer collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Empowering the Next Generation

We seek to broaden participation in STEM education and expand technology access in the communities we serve. In 2025, we launched the Semiconductor Education Pathways Program, which aims to strengthen education pathways from K-12 through post-secondary education, as well as help prepare and upskill professionals for the semiconductor industry.

A Safe and Healthy Workplace

We are committed to providing a safe and injury-free workplace, and we invest in programs designed to improve employees’ physical, mental, and social well-being. In 2025, our employees made over 930,000 visits to our on-site fitness centers.

Sustainability

Through conservation, strong collaborations, and application of technology, we have long worked to reduce the environmental footprint of our operations and products. We work across three main focus areas: climate, water, and waste.

99% Global Renewable Electricity

In 2025, we achieved 100% renewable electricity for our U.S., Europe, Israel, Malaysia, Vietnam, and China locations, and 97% in Costa Rica, bringing the global total to 99%.

Advancing Toward Net Positive Water

We conserved approximately 11.2 billion gallons of water in our operations and community collaborations in 2025 and enabled restoration of 2.8 billion gallons through watershed restoration projects.

Global Waste Solutions

During 2025, we sent approximately 3% of our total waste to landfill. We also applied circular economy practices to approximately 69% of our manufacturing waste streams via reuse, recovery, or recycling.

Technology

We are laser focused on developing the best products for our customers while working to broaden participation in the technology industry and solve challenges in areas such as climate change, healthcare, education, and the responsible use of AI.

Foundry Innovations

We released our initial processors manufactured using our new Intel 18A technology, which we expect to serve as the manufacturing process for multiple generations of client and server CPU products.

Advancing Energy Efficiency

As growing compute demand drives increases in global energy consumption, we continue to offer both higher product performance and improved energy efficiency with each new generation of products.

Broadening Tech Industry Participation

We remain committed to advancing inclusion and accessibility for millions of people by providing the technology and associated skills needed to access educational, economic, and community resources.

Take a Deeper View

To give our stakeholders greater insight into our sustainability work, we regularly report on our plans and progress in a number of areas.

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Climate Transition Action Plan

Our Climate Transition Action Plan outlines the steps we plan to take over the next three decades toward more sustainable products and operations to achieve our net-zero targets.

Annual Green Bond Report

In 2022, Intel issued a total of $1.25 billion (B) in green bonds to fund eligible sustainability projects. This report describes the company’s use of proceeds over the previous year.

Water Restoration Progress Report

This report summarizes progress toward our commitment to restore more than 100% of our fresh water consumption—a key component to achieving net positive water.

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Explore our integrated approach to corporate responsibility

Our long history of leadership in corporate responsibility is a competitive advantage for our business. Our commitment to corporate responsibility—built on a strong foundation of transparency, governance, ethics, and respect for human rights—creates value for Intel and our stakeholders by helping us mitigate risks, reduce costs, and build brand value. Read about our strategies, guiding principles, and policies below.

Investor Relations

We’re dedicated to transparency in investor relations and financial reporting.

Board and Governance

We’re committed to the highest standards of corporate governance and business ethics.

Public Policy

We’re devoted to helping people and businesses thrive in an increasingly global economy.

Supplier.Intel.Com

We work to continuously improve transparency and promote corporate responsibility throughout the global electronics supply chain.

ESG Materiality Assessment Process

We have conducted formal ESG Materiality Assessments for more than a decade, with each assessment building on the one prior. While the formal process is undertaken at least every two years, we consider our Materiality Assessment to be a living document, to be adapted in line with the dynamic environment in which we operate.

Our guidelines and guiding principles

Intel's Values

Our values define who we are and how we act every day as employees and as a company. They speak to everyone within our workforce.

Code of Conduct

Our Code of Conduct sets the expectations for integrity and ethics that all employees follow.

The Responsible Business Alliance (RBA)

Intel fully supports the vision and goals of the RBA within our global operations.

Intel Political Accountability Guidelines

Intel’s policy describes practices, decision processes, and accountability for our political activities.

Intel Global Human Rights Principles and Approach

Intel is committed to maintaining and improving systems and processes to avoid causing or contributing to adverse human rights impacts in our own operations, our supply chain, and our products.

Responsible AI Principles

We are approaching responsble AI through a comprehensive strategy centered around people, processes, systems, data, and algorithms, with the aim of lowering risks while optimizing benefits of our society.

Intel Statement on Combating Modern Slavery and Ensuring Transparent Supply Chains

Intel is committed to respecting human rights, and we expect our suppliers to respect human rights.

Intel’s Support of the SDGs

We are working to help achieve many of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through our corporate responsibility and sustainability strategies.

Our policies

Intel Corporate Accessibility Policy

Intel is committed to a culture of accessibility. We use science and technology to eliminate barriers and empower people.

Intel Climate Change Policy Statement

Addressing climate change requires broad leadership by both the public and private sectors, including alignment to globally recognized roadmaps and standards.

Responsible Minerals Sourcing Policy

Intel is committed to sourcing minerals in a manner that safeguards the human rights of everyone in our global supply chain.

Global Environmental, Health, and Safety Policy

Intel is committed to caring for our people and the planet in all aspects of our business.

Global Water Policy

Water is a critical natural resource that is of strategic importance to our business and the communities in which we operate.

Our Commitment to Quality Excellence

Intel continuously strives to deliver quality and reliability in all its products, building on five decades of relentless innovation.

Intel Energy Policy

We are committed to caring for people and the planet from the development of our products, through our supply chain and manufacturing.

Global Tax Policy

Intel’s focus on ethical business practices is the foundation of our global tax strategy.

Footnotes

Our website and the reports, press releases, and other documents provided thereon include claims that relate to our greenhouse gas emissions and environmental initiatives and strategy, including claims regarding greenhouse gas emissions, reductions, efforts, and other environmental aspirations. Information regarding these claims, including third-party limited assurance of our greenhouse gas emissions, is available in our disclosures (including archived reports) on this web page.