Better Health for All
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NVIDIA's core technology, including GPUs and AI platforms, significantly contributes to better health outcomes. Its products enhance medical imaging systems, reducing MR image reconstruction time by 95%
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and accelerating genomics analysis by 35-50x with 99.99% accuracy
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. The Clara platform, MONAI Toolkit, and BioNeMo framework accelerate drug discovery, enabling partners like BrainStorm Therapeutics to identify potential therapies in nine months
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. NVIDIA's AI powers intelligent surgical platforms and an FDA-cleared AI-assisted colonoscopy tool for polyp detection
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. NVIDIA-backed firms use AI for early-stage drug performance prediction
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and disease modeling
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. In terms of health externalities, NVIDIA's Earth-2 platform delivers AI-driven global climate simulations 500x faster and 10,000x more energy efficient than traditional models
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. Its AI-powered wildfire detection system monitors over 30 million hectares
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, delivering alerts within five minutes
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, contributing to positive community health by mitigating environmental risks. The company demonstrates healthcare data responsibility through NIM microservices that ensure data security and compliance
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, supported by a 94%+ cybersecurity training completion rate
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. NVIDIA also invests in healthcare education through the Signs platform, an AI-powered tool developed with partners to teach American Sign Language
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, aiming to bridge communication gaps for the deaf community
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Fair Money & Economic Opportunity
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NVIDIA Corporation is a technology company focused on designing and manufacturing GPUs and related software, not a financial institution.
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As such, it does not offer lending, deposit, or other consumer financial services. Consequently, all KPIs under the 'Fair Money & Economic Opportunity' value, which are specifically designed to assess financial institutions on aspects like underserved client share, pricing fairness, exploitative fee exposure, financial inclusion initiatives (related to loan/insurance books), customer finance data accessibility, fair lending compliance, wealth-building outcomes, profit reinvestment in community finance, financial literacy initiatives, debt burden ratio, geographic inclusion (for financial access points), and financial product simplicity, are not applicable to NVIDIA's core business operations. The company's activities, such as workforce diversity and inclusion, employee development programs, and support for startups, while contributing to economic opportunity in a general sense, do not align with the specific financial service definitions of these KPIs.
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Fair Pay & Worker Respect
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NVIDIA reported a U.S. OSHA recordable incident rate of 0.08 and a lost-time case rate of 0.01 in FY25, with no global fatalities.
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The overall voluntary employee turnover rate was 2.5% in FY25.
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The company maintains strong pay equity, with the lowest reported median pay ratio for women/minorities to men/majority being 99.2% for Hispanic/Latino employees compared to White employees in the U.S. in FY25.
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In FY25, the CEO to median employee pay ratio was 166:1, with the median employee total compensation package at $301,233.
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14% of the employee population was covered by collective bargaining agreements in FY25 across several European countries and Israel.
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In FY24, NVIDIA oversaw the remediation and repayment by suppliers of recruitment fees to workers discovered through audits.
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Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing
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Since 2016, all Master Service Agreements executed with suppliers require compliance with the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) Code of Conduct.
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Strategic suppliers are expected to undergo biennial Validated Assessment Program (VAP) on-site, third-party audits.
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In FY25, 91% of strategic suppliers were audited in the past two years, and in FY24, 93% were audited in the past two years.
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Honest & Fair Business
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NVIDIA maintains a global, publicly accessible Anti-Corruption Policy, last updated March 1, 2023, which prohibits bribery and corruption
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, explicitly disallows facilitating payments
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, and emphasizes compliance with the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
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This policy applies to all employees, officers, and directors
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, and requires third parties to comply
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, with General Counsel approval for those interacting with government or customers.
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The company mandates accurate books, records, and internal accounting controls.
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In fiscal year 2025, over 99% of employees completed anti-bribery and anti-corruption training
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, with additional targeted training for high-contact roles.
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Regarding independent verification of ethical claims and compliance, NVIDIA engaged an external third party to perform limited assurance on select metrics for fiscal years 2023, 2024, and 2025.
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The company also conducts third-party verified Life Cycle Assessments and Product Carbon Footprints for greenhouse gas emissions
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, and an annual third-party ISO 9001 assessment for its quality-management system.
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Furthermore, 91% of strategic suppliers underwent biennial Validated Assessment Program (VAP) on-site, third-party audits in the past two years to validate self-assessment questionnaires
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, supporting NVIDIA's claims regarding responsible supply chain management.
Kind to Animals
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NVIDIA's core business as a technology company means it has no direct animal exploitation, animal-derived products, animal testing, or animal agriculture operations, resulting in N/A scores for most related KPIs.
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However, NVIDIA actively participates in multi-stakeholder initiatives to develop industry-wide animal-free testing standards. The company has committed significant resources, including an up to $1 billion investment over five years in a co-innovation lab with Lilly, to integrate AI and robotics into drug discovery.
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NVIDIA also collaborates with Virtonomy to accelerate medical device development using in silico methods, explicitly aiming to reduce animal testing.
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No War, No Weapons
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NVIDIA cannot demonstrate zero exposure to controversial weapons. Public records show that NVIDIA's Jetson microcomputers were found in Russian military drones in May 2024.
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Additionally, procurement records indicate attempts by China's People's Liberation Army to acquire NVIDIA chips for weapons systems, including robotic dogs.
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Regarding sales to embargoed or sanctioned regimes, NVIDIA developed specific chip variants like the A800, H800, and H20 for the Chinese market in response to U.S. export controls.
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While some advanced chips are fully restricted to Tier 3 countries such as China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and Sudan, sales of the H20 chip to China were approved for licensed sales in July 2025.
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Despite bans, Chinese military bodies acquired NVIDIA's A100 and H100 chips in January 2024, and the Justice Department accused Chinese nationals of illegally shipping tens of millions of dollars’ worth of NVIDIA H100s to China.
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NVIDIA's core products, GPUs and AI accelerators, are identified as dual-use technologies with both civilian and military applications. The company has engaged in direct R&D for military-applicable dual-use technologies, including a $25 million contract from DARPA in 2010 for GPU technologies, collaboration with Lockheed Martin in 2022 for defense systems, and partnerships with MITRE in 2024
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and 2025
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for an AI supercomputer for U.S. federal government defense operations and an AI-powered 6G project potentially benefiting military communications.
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Planet-Friendly Business
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NVIDIA's total Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas emissions were 7,153,907 metric tons of CO2 equivalent in fiscal year 2025, an 86.86% increase from the previous year, with Scope 3 emissions publicly disclosed for 8 out of 15 categories.
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The company has not set a carbon-neutral target date.
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NVIDIA achieved 100% renewable electricity for its global offices and data centers under operational control in fiscal year 2025.
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The company has committed to new SBTi-validated emission reduction targets for a 50% reduction in absolute Scope 1 and 2 emissions and a 75% reduction in Scope 3 emissions intensity by fiscal year 2030.
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Water withdrawal was 3.14 cubic meters per $1 million revenue in fiscal year 2025, with 20% of facilities' water withdrawals located in water-stressed areas in fiscal year 2024.
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NVIDIA states its disclosures are aligned with the Task Force for Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
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Respect for Cultures & Communities
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NVIDIA's Corporate Social Responsibility reports for FY20
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and FY23
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do not mention any cultural appropriation incidents. The company's primary business model, focused on designing and manufacturing GPUs and software, does not typically involve operations that would necessitate Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) processes or impact physical cultural or heritage sites. Consequently, no cultural site disruptions were reported, and no specific cultural incident response framework was detailed in the provided articles.
Safe & Smart Tech
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A critical security vulnerability in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit, reported on September 1, 2024,
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was patched on September 26, 2024,
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taking 25 days for remediation.
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NVIDIA acknowledged this vulnerability report within 2 days, on September 3, 2024.
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In Fiscal Year 2024, NVIDIA piloted an AI Ethics Committee to advise on generative AI development.
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The company's AI development is guided by principles of privacy, safety, security, transparency, and non-discrimination, and it commits to safe and trustworthy AI, aligning with White House Voluntary Commitments.
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NVIDIA offers a Model Card Generator and open-source templates for transparent AI documentation,
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having enhanced over 100 model cards across all domains to meet the Model Card++ standard.
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NeMo Guardrails helps ensure LLM-powered applications are accurate, appropriate, on-topic, and secure,
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and the company conducts a Frontier AI Risk Assessment.
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Bias detection is emphasized in its AI certification programs.
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NVIDIA's Santa Clara headquarters is certified to ISO 27001.
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Zero Waste & Sustainable Products
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NVIDIA's GPU systems packaging was 97% recyclable by weight in fiscal year 2025.
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The company achieved an 84% waste diversion rate at its Santa Clara, CA headquarters in FY25.
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NVIDIA leverages digital twin technology to optimize product lifecycles from material sourcing to end-of-life disposal.
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Waste reduction initiatives include engaging a vendor for a gap analysis at its Santa Clara campus, using a global specialist e-waste recycling vendor, and supporting startups like Recycleye which uses AI for waste sorting.
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Since 2014, key silicon manufacturing and systems contract manufacturing suppliers have been required to report on their annual waste and reduction goals.
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NVIDIA provides information to consumers on how to recycle its branded products through labeling and its website.
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