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## Sustainability 

Dialog’s commitment to global citizenship is woven into the fabric of the Company. Through innovative new technologies and environmental, employee or supplier policies, we strive to make a contribution to society and a difference in the world. 

## Environment 

Dialog’s environmentally responsible approach to business underpins everything that we do. We aim to minimise our use of natural resources and reduce and eliminate all types of waste, following the principles of redesign, reduce and recycle. We are ISO 14001 certificated and require all our suppliers to be accredited to, and comply with, this environmental standard. 

## Redesign 

Dialog offers a range of green IC solutions that minimise the number of components required within consumer electronic products, the energy they consume, and extend to their overall lifespan to reduce waste. In power management, our single chip solutions reduce the number of discrete components that need to be used within mobile devices, while delivering energy savings. 

The Company also offers a range of low energy short-range wireless ICs for a range of smart home devices, including energy monitoring, metering and management applications. 

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Dialog donated a “Rolfiets” (a wheelchair-bike with an electric motor) to a local school in Nabern, enabling teachers and caregivers to venture out on excursions into the countryside with kids with disabilities. 

Dialog matched the funds raised by an employee who ran the London Marathon in 2012 for Parkinson’s UK. 

In 2012, Dialog began actively developing next generation, highly controllable LED (Light Emitting Diode) technologies to deliver better quality light within homes and offices, aiming to significantly reduce energy usage and enabling consumers to benefit from bulbs with an average lifespan of around ten years in comparison to just three to four years with Compact Fluorescent (CFL) bulbs. 

## Reduce 

Dialog is working to systematically reduce CO$_{2}$ emissions and minimise the carbon footprint of our business, focusing on the impact of our design centres. The Carbon Disclosure Project recognised Dialog as one of ten successful companies achieving the “Scope-2-Indirect CO$_{2}$ Emission Reduction”, with a reduction of emissions of 34% in our design centres in 2012, despite the significant growth in our employee base, beating our target of 30% by 2014. In addition, we are actively reducing the quantity of hazardous substances used in our labs. 

We take the scarcity of natural resources seriously and consider the conservation of raw materials, such as metals, to be a priority. Dialog continues to identify potential methods to improve existing technologies and substitute alternatives, such as copper for precious metals, to minimise our impact on the environment and reduced costs without sacrificing quality and performance. 

## Recycle 

We have also implemented a rigorous recycling of precious metals, such as gold and silver, 

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from waste and damaged products. We have increased the quantity of recovered gold by 300% and recovered silver by 200%. 

Dialog only uses packing material qualified as “green packing”, implementing a “non-wood packing” delivery policy in 2012. We believe that reusing and recycling packing material and waste (including the PET and glass bottles used in our work areas) can contribute to the effectiveness of our resource management and sustainability. Our five design locations currently recycle 92% of packing and waste. We are striving for 95% by 2013. 

## Suppliers and employees 

As a fabless semiconductor company, it is important that all of Dialog’s manufacturing partners are equally committed to respecting the environment. Within our supply chain, we continually emphasis that environmental issues should be an instinctive part of any decision-making process, and suppliers should: 

■ Design and manufacture only environmentally friendly products; 

■ Monitor, reduce and eliminate all types of waste. This includes waste water, solid waste, wasted energy, ozone-depleting CO$_{2}$ emissions and other volatile organic chemicals (VOC). We work with suppliers relentlessly to maximise yields, minimising the number of chips that fail performance tests and need to be disposed of, alongside hazardous substances used during the production process; 

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