Climate-Related Risks and Opportunities
In 2025, abnormal climate events continued worldwide with increasing frequency: extreme heat, heavy rainfall, and drought conditions intensified, while sea-level rise continued to exceed national projections, underscoring the growing impact of climate change on business operations and value chains. Walsin Lihwa remains actively engaged, deeply aware of the far-reaching effects of climate change on long-term business sustainability. Following the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) management framework, the Company identifies and evaluates climate change risks and opportunities and their financial impacts across short-, medium-, and long-term scenarios, and advances mitigation and adaptation actions to reduce risk, enhance resilience, and create sustainable development opportunities. Since 2024, and in accordance with the IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards implementation plan approved by the Board of Directors, Walsin Lihwa has undertaken identification of sustainability- and climate-related risks and opportunities using the consolidated financial statements as the reporting boundary, ensuring consistency between sustainability disclosures and financial reporting entities. For related information, please refer to
3.1 Corporate Governance.
Climate Governance
▪Climate Governance and Management Framework
Walsin Lihwa's climate governance and management framework is subject to ultimate oversight by the Board of Directors, which guides management strategy, key action plans, and progress toward targets. The Board has established a Sustainable Development Committee, convened by an independent director, with the Chairman, independent directors, and internal advisors serving as members. The Committee is responsible for formulating the Company's sustainability strategy and vision, advancing sustainability-related work including climate issues, and formally reporting execution results to the Board at least once per year, ensuring Board oversight and decision-making on climate matters. At the operational level, the Sustainability Office is responsible for planning and directing the relevant business units in identifying and managing climate change risks and opportunities for Walsin Lihwa, and regularly reporting to the Sustainable Development Committee on international climate change trends, potential impacts, and the effectiveness of related response measures, ensuring the effective operation and continuous improvement of the climate governance mechanism.
Climate Governance Responsibilities:
Board of Directors
- The Board of Directors is Walsin Lihwa's highest decision-making body for climate-related risk management. It is responsible for reviewing overall climate issue management policies and major resolutions, and overseeing the effective operation of climate issue management mechanisms.
- The Board reviews climate-related risks and opportunities and incorporates them into annual budgets, business plans, and major capital expenditure proposals, ensuring that climate change issues are closely integrated with the Company's business development.
Sustainable Development Committee
- Reports the results of climate risk and opportunity assessments and related work progress to the Board of Directors annually.
- Implements climate issue management policies and major resolutions approved by the Board, and through a dedicated promotion center, carries out actions for climate risk mitigation and opportunity development.
Sustainability Office
- Regularly tracks international climate issue developments and regulations, and raises awareness among employees regarding global risk trends and climate issues.
- Responsible for identifying and evaluating climate-related risks and opportunities; regularly convenes cross-departmental climate issue management meetings, mobilizes the risk management group to identify climate-related physical risks, transition risks, and opportunities, formulates corresponding strategies, and regularly tracks progress and targets to continuously strengthen climate risk and opportunity management.
Linkage Between Senior Management Compensation and Sustainability Performance
Walsin Lihwa is committed to linking senior management compensation with the Company's long-term business strategy and sustainable development goals. In addition to existing financial and operational performance indicators, sustainability-related performance across environmental, social, and governance (ESG) dimensions has been incorporated as an important consideration in senior management performance evaluation and compensation decisions.
In the environmental dimension, Walsin Lihwa has incorporated climate management performance into the evaluation scope, including GHG reduction progress, energy use efficiency, the proportion of renewable energy used, and the implementation status of major climate risk and opportunity response measures.
Climate-Related Risk and Opportunity Management
To effectively manage climate change risks and opportunities, the Company's Sustainability Office coordinates the integration of climate-related risks into the Company's overall risk management framework, continuously tracking international climate policy and regulatory developments, the occurrence of extreme weather events, and incorporating estimates of potential financial impacts and related management costs. A rolling review management mechanism is employed to formulate corresponding response strategies, thereby enhancing operational resilience and risk tolerance.
Walsin Lihwa leverages a cross-departmental collaboration mechanism, whereby departments jointly conduct climate risk and opportunity assessments to comprehensively examine the potential impacts of climate issues on operations, supply chains, and asset allocation. Through training and internal communication, employees are briefed on global climate trends and the disclosure requirements of TCFD and IFRS S2, guiding each unit in identifying potential climate risks and opportunities within operational processes and evaluating their likelihood and magnitude of impact.
Following the TCFD framework and IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standard S2, the Sustainability Office regularly convenes cross-departmental climate issue management meetings. For high-risk and high-impact issues identified, corresponding management decisions are made, and appropriate risk management strategies—including reduction, transfer, acceptance, or control—are adopted to ensure risks are effectively managed.
▪Climate Risk and Opportunity Identification Process
Assessment Criteria
▪Risk and Opportunity Scenario Simulation
Walsin Lihwa follows TCFD guidance and references four climate change scenarios to complete the identification of climate-related risks and opportunities.
Climate Risk and Opportunity Identification Process
Climate Risk and Opportunity Assessment Results
Following the TCFD framework, Walsin Lihwa identifies climate risks and opportunities based on the "likelihood of occurrence" and "magnitude of impact" of each risk or opportunity, has identified three high-risk factors and three high-opportunity factors, producing climate change risk and opportunity matrices.
Moreover, since 2024, Walsin Lihwa has advanced climate issue management in accordance with IFRS S2 requirements, referencing industry disclosure topics from the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standards, TCFD topics disclosed in sustainability reports, and IFRS S2 industry issues, to compile 68 potential risk and opportunity issues relevant to the Company. Each business unit then assessed these issues for likelihood and impact, initially identifying 23 relevant risk and opportunity issues. Combining quantitative and qualitative results, 8 key sustainability- and climate-related risks and opportunities were ultimately selected.
Among these, two climate risks were identified: "Energy Management" and "Extreme Weather Events"; and three climate opportunities: "Entering New Markets", "Supply Chain Management", and "High-Efficiency Production and Distribution Processes".
Summary of Climate Risk Identification
Note: Time horizon definitions - Short-term: 2026; Medium-term: 2027-2031; Long-term: 2032-2036.
Summary of Climate Opportunity Identification
Note: Time horizon definitions - Short-term: 2026; Medium-term: 2027-2031; Long-term: 2032-2036.
Potential Impacts and Response Plans for Climate-Related Risks and Opportunities
Climate Opportunity Financial Impact Assessment and Investment Costs
Climate Issue Response Strategies
To address the risks and opportunities brought by extreme climate, Walsin Lihwa actively undertakes various carbon reduction actions, establishes GHG reduction targets within the Group, and has formed an energy conservation and emission reduction team, building a green and low-carbon operating model. Through continuous technological innovation and R&D, the Company improves green processes and advances green products.
Climate-Related Metrics and Targets
▪GHG Reduction
Climate change targets and progress toward achieving them: please
refer to Section
1.2 Energy and Greenhouse Gas Management.
▪Green Products
Targets and progress on R&D and applications related to green
products, including clean technology product revenue and R&D
investment: please refer to Section
4.2 Green Products and Operations.