Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility at Synopsys Inc

Shaping the future of Smart Everything brings great opportunities and important responsibilities – the future is not smart if it is not sustainable, just and secure. Our Smart Future ESG strategy provides a framework for how we address our own operational impact on the world and our ability to influence others to do the same. We leverage our strategy and our corporate governance processes to assess and manage the ESG matters that are relevant to our business.

By focusing on the resilience of our business and taking into account the interests of our key stakeholders – including our customers, employees, business partners, and local communities – we believe we will drive business success and generate value for our stockholders, while at the same time, make meaningful progress with respect to environmental and social issues within our ecosystem, such as climate action, inclusion and diversity in our workforce, and social impact in our communities.
We call this strategy Smart Future.

Environmental Sustainability

Every year businesses face escalating calls to not only join but lead the transition to a low-carbon economy. We hear those calls and we agree. Through our technologies, we’re empowering our customers to design more energy-efficient and powerful chips that enable new applications and product lines, expanding our circle of impact worldwide. We are also working to influence greener practices across our supply chain and the wider technology industry, and through continual internal optimization. We are driving down our own environmental — impacts supporting key environmental advances for people, communities, and the planet while driving business success.

We believe a Smart Future is a sustainable future and we’re working to make it a reality.

Community Impact and Philanthropy

We generate positive community impact, solve social challenges around the world, and create access to opportunity by mobilizing the resources of Synopsys, Inc. and The Synopsys Foundation, as well as our employees’ contributions of time, expertise, and charitable giving.

By working to deliver meaningful change, we bring our Smart Future strategy to the local level and live our commitments across three primary focus areas: education, community, and environment.

Delivering Positive Change

Our Synopsys for Good program is managed by our social impact team and executed in partnership with employee Community Leads and Community Involvement Teams around the world. We take a regional management approach to philanthropy and employee community engagement, and utilize a globally accessible online portal to manage volunteer projects, monetary and volunteer-time matching gifts, and employee giving campaigns.

The Synopsys Foundation makes grants to eligible organizations in the communities where Synopsys operates, focusing on programs and services that prepare students for the future with STEM education, address essential needs and inequities in the community and work to mitigate climate change.