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IPC COMMUNITY 84 SUMMER 2023 Colin Cupitt BAE Systems (OEM): Why is your company's sustainability mission so important? Our sustainability agenda directly supports our purpose "to serve, supply and protect those who serve and protect us." Our products and services enable governments to defend their lives and freedoms of people around the world, support international stability, and keep people safe. At the same time, our business supports the prosperity of nations with high-quality, well-paid sustainable jobs and by being a val- ued member of our local communities. Many of our programs are complex, pushing the boundaries of current technology. The products we design and build now will remain in service for decades to come, which empha- sizes the need to develop long-term sustain- able solutions. This is why we are supporting governments' national decarbonization pro- grams, working closely with our customers and partners in developing sustainable solution, as well as setting a target of achieving net-ze- ro greenhouse gas emissions across our own operations (Scope 1 and 2) by 2030. What led you to joining IPC's leadership council? BAE Systems recognizes the important work that IPC does in the field of electronics and is happy to support them. The particular focus of the Sustainability Leadership Council is to prepare the electronics industry to be better equipped to address the changing scope of sustainability and to ensure that upcoming legislation can be addressed in an effective way. This will minimize risk to our business, our supply chain, and our customers. What's on the agenda for initial leadership council projects for the rest of this year? The Sustainability for Electronics Leader- ship team has identified critical issues in sus- tainability and determined those that need to be addressed first. Initially this is focussed on standardization of terminology and tools to enable us to talk the same language and allow clarity to measures. A-Teams have been cre- ated to tackle supply chain communications, terminology for "sustainability for electronics" and GHG education and awareness. In the fall we are expecting an assessment from Anthesis on Materiality, with a goal to identify priority sustainability themes, topics, and trends rel- evant to the electronics manufacturing value chain. This will better define "sustainability for electronics" by identifying/prioritizing relevant stakeholder groups for engagement, benchmarking industry practices based on desktop research, conducting interviews with stakeholders and developing a "network map" to allow assessment of impacts caused and impacts incurred by the industry. Compiled by Sandy Gentry. Click to learn more about IPC resources for Sustainability for Electronics.