HONG KONG – NVIDIA today released its Fiscal Year 2026 Sustainability Report, reporting that its Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions nearly tripled, from 3,638,432 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MT CO2e) in FY2024 to 10,700,940 MT CO2e in FY2026—almost equal to the annual emissions of a medium-sized country like Lebanon [1].
The increase was primarily driven by upstream emissions from producing the components, materials, and manufacturing services required for its GPUs and AI systems, meaning that the fabless tech giant is increasingly shifting the emissions burden to its manufacturing hubs in Taiwan and South Korea, where hundreds of NVIDIA’s ecosystem partners operate [2]. The sustainability report also shows that Scope 3 emissions account for more than 99% of NVIDIA’’s total carbon emissions.
Rachel Yu, Greenpeace East Asia Climate and Energy Campaigner, said:
“Jensen Huang reiterated in the sustainability report that AI is a ‘five-layer cake’ with energy being the foundation. He admitted that ‘the energy challenge is real. It’s solvable,’ and pointed to renewable energy as a key part of the solution. However, NVIDIA’s foundry suppliers in East Asia are heavily relying on fossil fuels. From what the company has reported to date, we have yet to find any evidence of NVIDIA making renewable energy investments in its supply chain.”
In the sustainability report, the company did not disclose any details about concrete efforts to support its suppliers in their renewable energy transitions, such as power purchase agreements (PPAs) or direct investments in renewable electricity infrastructure. Meanwhile, based on Greenpeace’s previous research, NVIDIA was found to be lagging behind its industrial peers on cleaning up its supply chain, while other major tech companies like Google are taking action to support their East Asian suppliers’ renewable energy transitions. A recent study on NVIDIA’s supply chain decarbonization progress by Greenpeace East Asia also shows that only about a quarter of the electricity consumed by the company’s top suppliers in East Asia was from renewable energy [3].
“When confronted by Greenpeace East Asia activists in Taipei last month, Jensen Huang acknowledged the importance of investing in renewable energy with its suppliers. With NVIDIA’s supply chain emissions almost tripling, the case for immediate, concrete action to decarbonize its manufacturing supply chain is urgent. It needs to start with setting clear, time-bound renewable energy targets for its supply chain in East Asia,” said Yu.
Greenpeace East Asia demands that NVIDIA:
- Expand its 100% renewable energy target from its own corporate operations to cover its entire manufacturing supply chain by 2030
- Direct NVIDIA’s capital into supplier-led renewable energy infrastructure across East Asian manufacturing hubs.
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Notes:
[1] Based on Worldometer’s CO₂ emissions by country data, Lebanon’s annual GHG emissions in 2024 were 11,004,120 tons.
[2] Taiwan hosts more than 500 NVIDIA ecosystem partners and produces more than 1 million rack components for the NVIDIA Vera Rubin infrastructure. In South Korea, SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics are NVIDIA’s primary memory chip suppliers.
[3] According to the analysis by Greenpeace East Asia, the renewable electricity ratio among the top 20 manufacturing suppliers in East Asia was only 24.09% based on the latest Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) questionnaire responses as of March 2026.
Media Contact:
Yujie Xue, International Communications Officer, Greenpeace East Asia, +852 5127 3416, [email protected]
