30 Dialog Semiconductor Plc | Annual report and accounts 2012 |  Section 2 | Business review 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. 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. 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.  We have also implemented a rigorous recycling  of precious metals, such as gold and silver,  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.  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. 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. 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. 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; Recycle Redesign Environment Reduce Suppliers and employees From left:  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.