Boston, June 30, 2026 – Green Century Capital Management (Green Century) filed a shareholder resolution asking NVIDIA to report the climate emissions generated when customers use its products. The proposal, co-filed by Mercy Investment Services, received 18% of votes cast at the company’s annual meeting on Wednesday. Unlike its competitors, the world’s most valuable company as of June 2026 has not disclosed the full climate footprint from the use of its products, despite setting a 2030 target to reduce it.
“Investors want to know whether NVIDIA’s emissions are growing as fast as its business,” said Leslie Samuelrich, president of Green Century. “NVIDIA is asking investors to follow them blindly but without a full picture of the company’s carbon pollution, shareholders cannot evaluate whether it is on track to meet its climate and clean energy targets and address the related risks.”
Green Century secured a commitment from NVIDIA to set a renewable energy goal in 2023. Since then, the company has expanded the scope of its targets but has not disclosed whether it is on track to achieve them. NVIDIA says it aims to reduce the emissions intensity from the use of its AI processing products by 75% by 2030, yet recent sustainability reporting omits the product emissions data associated with the target, so its progress is unclear.
Trailing in transparency
NVIDIA’s peers, including AMD and Intel, estimate and share the amount of climate-warming emissions from the use of their products. Their reporting reveals that product use may account for up to three-quarters of chip designers’ total emissions. Annual emissions data are also an integral part of AMD and Intel’s sustainability reports and climate transition plans, which detail actions to cut planet-warming pollution.
Powerful public pressure
According to the International Energy Agency, data center energy consumption is projected to grow nearly four times faster per year than in all other sectors from 2024 to 2030. Because utilities may require coal and natural gas to meet more than 40% of increased electricity demand, a team at Cornell University expects AI growth to emit an additional 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2030.
Opposition to the environmental effects of data centers is as potent as the pollution they produce. Seventy percent of Americans as of June 2026 would oppose a new data center being built near their home. Community complaints have led to the cancellation of at least 20 proposed data center projects, and some $41.7 billion in investment, in the first three months of 2026. To quell public concern about meeting their public climate commitments, major tech companies bought record amounts of clean energy in 2025.
“NVIDIA’s drive for data center dominance comes with climate consequences,” said Green Century Shareholder Advocate Giovanna Eichner. “Reporting product emissions would help ensure the company’s growing environmental impact is matched by the accountability its customers and the public increasingly expect.”
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