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Just Transition

Achieving Social Equity and Inter-generational Well-being Through Green Transformation

The Paris Agreement emphasizes a just transition for the workforce. In its net-zero transformation, TCC follows its "Stakeholder Engagement Policy," maintaining dialogue with employees, local communities, suppliers, and consumers. TCC aims to tailor engagement strategies, understand stakeholder expectations, assess potential impacts, and build consensus.

The Paris Agreement: "The imperatives of a just transition of the workforce and the creation of decent work and quality jobs in accordance with nationally defined development priorities"

Stakeholder Identification Process

Through internal workshops and a prioritization assessment based on influence, impact, and dependency, TCC identified key stakeholders affected by the net-zero transition—primarily employees, local communities, suppliers, and consumers. We will continue to advance relevant initiatives to assist various stakeholder groups in addressing the challenges brought by the transition.

Potential Impact to Stakeholders and TCC's Action Strategies

Employees
Human capital is vital to a company's sustainable development. In the net-zero transition, employees may face skill gaps or role changes, especially in fuel replacement and digital transformation. TCC upholds the principle of diversity, inclusivity, and equal employment opportunities by offering support and training to help employees grow through the transition.
 Green Collar Skills Development 
TCC Carbon Academy provides courses from basic sustainability to specialized topics like GHG inventory and green power trading, covering soft skills, cross-industry, and industry-specific green collar skills. It also promotes sustainability awareness and critical soft skills across the workforce. As of April 2025, 2,722 employees have participated.

Just Transition Awareness Enhancement 
Since the end of 2024, top-down, diverse, just transition empowerment and capacity building programs have been implemented.
  • Board of Directors Governance Courses: Introduce core concepts of just transition through international case studies.
  • Carbon Academy: Offers online courses to help employees gradually understand just transition issues.
  • Hoping Power Plant Project: Adopts an interactive discussion model, guiding employees through just transition and plant transformation challenges. Courses and workshops address livelihood impacts from the plant's decommissioning, future risks for coal-fired plants, carbon fee pressures on cement, and the urgent adoption of alternative raw materials and fuels for carbon reduction.

Retraining and Transfer Programs 
According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025, automation and intelligence will create an estimated 156 million new jobs by 2030, while 92 million—mainly low-skill, routine roles in manufacturing and operations—will be replaced. Low-skilled and older workers face higher employment risks.
  • Creating New Positions: TCC is generating green jobs through renewable energy, energy storage, and green electricity trading, while oering regular internal transfer
    opportunities.
  • Internal Transfer System: To improve eciency and reduce energy use, TCC is introducing unmanned and intelligent equipment (e.g., autonomous mining trucks at Jurong, Yingde, and Chongqing Plants). Aected employees are oered training for dispatcher roles or support in transferring to other in-plant positions.
Local Communities
As part of the community, our plants strive to create positive impacts during the net-zero transition. By strengthening local ties, we raise awareness and support for carbon reduction, encouraging joint eorts to build sustainable communities.
 Awareness and Dialogue Enhancement 
Since 2022, we have promoted the Carbon Reduction Parent-child Bankbook to foster joint action with local communities, spreading environmental knowledge, boosting carbon reduction awareness, and communicating plans like the decommissioning of Hoping Power Plant's thermal coal units.
  • The program engages nearby elementary students with a bankbook and "carbon coin" rewards, connecting daily energy-saving actions to low-carbon product incentives.
  • It also extends to local communities, providing reusable tableware at village sports events to reduce single-use plastics. Partnering with the Heping Tribe's "Mothers' Class", the initiative integrates sustainability into community life, ensuring inclusive green transition benefits.
Suppliers
In collaborating with suppliers towards sustainable development, TCC is committed to establishing a cooperation-based value system. The core principle is to promote the low-carbon transition of the supply chain while upholding human rights, protecting the environment, and fostering biodiversity, thereby building sustainable partnerships.
 Green Transportation Solutions 
TCC subsidiaries are developing green transportation solutions. Taiwan Transport & Storage adopted electric tractors, cutting emissions by 32% versus traditional vehicles, while Ta-Ho Maritime used eco-friendly vessels, reducing emissions by 16%.
  • Using 2023 as the base year, TCC aims to cut Scope 3 upstream and downstream transportation emissions by 3% each by 2030.
  • Mainland China's Guigang Plant successfully encouraged transport providers to purchase electric trucks in 2025 to support green transportation.

Education and Guidance Resources 
  • Physical: Carbon inventory camps and reduction workshops help suppliers calculate emissions and prepare greenhouse gas reports. Governance workshops further support SMEs and tier-1 medium-high risk suppliers in building sustainability systems, policies, and targets.
  • Online: Launching in the second half of 2025, a 24/7 supplier sustainability learning platform will oer training covering safety and health, environmental protection, ethical governance, new sustainability knowledge, and TCC procurement regulations.

Communication and Engagement 
  • Engage in carbon and sustainability-related communications with suppliers annually through sustainability questionnaires and annual supplier conferences.
  • Partnered with 19 Taiwanese suppliers, forming the Green Supplier Alliance, committing to provide product carbon footprint information by 2025 and setting a target to reduce their own carbon emissions by 10% before 2030, achieving low-carbon transformation goals.
Consumers
Comprehensively assist value chain partners, including customers and consumers, in achieving sustainable development and low-carbon economic transformation. Also ensure consumers' rights to stable electricity consumption through energy business operations.
 Continuing to Develop Low-carbon Construction Materials 
Continue to develop low-carbon construction materials, with the goal of exclusively producing and selling low-carbon cement and concrete.

Developing Diverse Green Energy Sources 
Through its subsidiary TCC Green Energy Corporation, TCC is actively developing a diverse range of green energy sources (solar power, onshore wind power, geothermal energy, aquavoltaics, and ocean thermal energy conversion, etc.), and installing solar panels at operating sites across Taiwan and Mainland China to achieve self-generated and self-consumed renewable energy.
  • Established NHOA.TCC, integrating technical resources, and continuing to build energy storage systems in Taiwan, Mainland China, and Europe to support stable power grids.
 Communication and Engagement 
  • Continue to promote Portland Limestone (IL) cement concrete and low-carbon mix concrete to customers.
  • Partnered with representatives from over 100 construction companies to establish the Low-Carbon Construction Pioneer Alliance to jointly promote low-carbon cement concrete through practical actions.

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