Company: IDCC
Filing Date: 2025-02-06
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001405495-25-000011
Chunk: 13

Company: InterDigital, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-06
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 13
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 practices to track and reduce our carbon footprint, including environmental considerations, and reporting related to data center needs;

•investigating and reducing unnecessary energy consumption;

•continuing to manage our environmental footprint with our office improvements; and

•supporting our employee community in reducing commuting impact through embracing a hybrid office schedule and offering mobility programs.

 As a pure research business, we consider our carbon impact through our “handprint” and the ways our innovation and contributions to global standards empower energy efficiencies and sustainable outcomes. Our research not only offers significant advances in the operational performance of various systems, but also reduced environmental impact through efficiency improvements, reduced power consumption, and by altering the way that products are used, serviced, or maintained worldwide.  We were named by LexisNexis as one of the top 100 companies whose innovation is helping progress towards achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

InterDigital ranks among the industry leaders for highest patent quality for 5G and video codec patents. 5G technology is designed to efficiently use energy throughout its ecosystem and will play a significant role in promoting and attaining sustainability goals. We have published white papers exploring how 5G and the emerging IoT ecosystem might shape sustainability efforts for the ICT industry. While the proliferation of connected devices can drive increases in energy consumption, innovative solutions can mitigate these outcomes to help lower our carbon footprint and engage more sustainably. In fact, one of our reports found that by 2030, IoT deployment and its subsequent disruption of various industries is projected to save more than eight times the energy it consumes – which could help to save up to 230 billion cubic meters of water and eliminate up to one gigaton of CO2 emissions. Additionally, 5G technology has significant potential societal benefits, including promoting productivity-led economic growth, increasing medical diagnostic capabilities, creating more sustainable cities and communities, improving remote education, and reducing inequalities in education and income. We believe that the benefits to be derived from 5G are substantial and will be felt throughout society.

The foregoing discussion includes information regarding sustainability matters that we believe may be of interest to our shareholders generally. We recognize that certain other stakeholders (such as customers, employees and non-governmental organizations), as well as certain of our shareholders, may be interested in more detailed information on these topics. We encourage you to review our most recent Corporate Sustainability Report (located on our website) for more detailed information regarding our Corporate Sustainability governance, goals, priorities, accomplishments and initiatives, as well as the Corporate Governance section of our most recent Proxy