Advancing Humanity
Since our founding, KLA has used our expertise and innovative thinking to overcome monumental challenges and improve lives. We continue to advance humanity with technologies and ideas that inspire action by making strides in leadership, opportunity, innovation and stewardship.

Focused on Driving Sustainable Profitability and Growth
Our Areas of Impact
Advancing Leadership
75%
VP promotions are from within KLA
Our solutions move industries forward, but our people make it happen. We empower today’s leaders—and tomorrow’s—by infusing our foundational values into everything we do.
Advancing Innovation
$3.3B
invested in R&D over the past 4 years
Through significant investment in research and development, KLA makes the best use of our diverse ideas, collaborative teams and passion for excellence to advance innovation and tackle our customers’ most complex problems.
Advancing Opportunity
$5.5M
total community giving in 2021
We strive to help build a world where everyone can reach their full potential. That means keeping our employees healthy and happy, nurturing an ethical, inclusive and diverse culture, strengthening our communities, and ensuring that we uphold human rights and safe working conditions across our supply chain.
Advancing Stewardship
63%
of company-wide waste is diverted from landfills
By introducing programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, conserve water and decrease waste streams we’re advancing stewardship and shaping a more sustainable future.
Our ESG Journey
Proactively managing our environmental, social and governance (ESG) impacts is an integral part of our mission to advance humanity. Our ESG strategy serves as a roadmap to get us there—informing our decisions, holding us accountable for progress within our business and our communities, and helping our customers achieve their own ESG goals.
We are on a journey to continually improve our understanding of the evolving ESG topics most relevant to KLA, manage them accordingly, and drive improvements in our performance. In August 2022, KLA announced a new target to reduce Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 50% by 2030 from our 2021 baseline and a target to achieve net zero Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2050. The Scope 1 and 2 reduction goal is informed by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) Corporate Net-Zero Standard.
Progress achieved in 2021:
- Announced our goal to use 100% renewable electricity across our global operations by 2030.
- Developed a new and improved greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory baseline.
- Completed limited third-party verification of our GHG inventory for Scopes 1 and 2, Scope 3 business travel, and our renewable energy progress.
- Conducted first in-depth climate risk and opportunity assessment following the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
As we look ahead to further reduce our climate impact, we will evaluate and announce progress toward the development of Scope 3 emissions reduction goals by the end of 2023.

Global Impact Report
Making an impact that contributes to advancing humanity has long been a part of the KLA DNA, and we remain committed to our purpose in everything we do — through leadership, opportunity, innovation and stewardship.
Advance
Celebrating Earth Day 2023: KLA Employees Get Close to Nature
Apr 25, 2023
In keeping with KLA’s vision to work for a brighter future, employees in Taiwan, Israel, Singapore, the United States and...
KLA Publishes 2021 Global Impact Report – Shares New Climate Goals
Aug 25, 2022
KLA is publishing its latest Global Impact Report, detailing progress of our environmental, social and governance (ESG) programs, results and...
KLA Israel Showcases Sustainability-Themed Hackathon Projects
Jun 15, 2022
Sixty-five hackers in 10 project teams at KLA Israel came together in their third annual hackathon, with this year’s event...
Earth Day, Every Day at KLA
Apr 21, 2022
As the world celebrates Earth Day on Friday, April 22, KLA recognizes the work its employees do around the world...
KLA’s 2019-2020 Global Impact Report
Aug 5, 2021
We are proud to announce the launch of our Global Impact Report, covering KLA environmental, social and governance (ESG) activities...
Advancing Humanity Through Environmental, Social and Governance Activities
Aug 3, 2021
Our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) activities are an integral part of our mission to advance humanity through devices and...

KLA Foundation
KLA Foundation is committed to advancing humanity by investing in our communities to create a more equitable, inclusive and accessible world. We believe making an impact requires listening, ongoing collaboration, patience, and a holistic understanding of human needs. KLA Foundation strategically partners with organizations that know their communities best to create upstream solutions for sustainable change and empower our employees to get involved in causes that are close to their hearts.
ESG Resources
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CDP Reports
CDP is a not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states, and regions to manage their environmental impacts. Our annual CDP reports disclose how we measure and manage our risks and opportunities related to climate change and water security. -
KLA’s Global Human Rights Standards
At KLA, we are committed to upholding the human rights and dignity of all people. Working ethically and complying with our legal obligations have always been central to the way we conduct business.