Climate Change Data

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Green IT/IS

Environmental Achievements

• Reduced overall emissions, waste and hazardous materials
• Shifting towards virtualization to reduce the number of servers
• Policies that encourage installation of software to reduce overall emissions
• Policies that encourage installation of software to make material sourcing and acquisition more environmentally friendly
• Policies that encourage installation of software to make the product distribution and delivery more environmentally friendly
• Firm policy to dispose of IT waste in the most environmentally friendly way
• Analyzing power consumption of IT equipment
• Green IT/IS Improving the energy efficiency of data centres
• Green IT/IS Reducing the cost of running data centres
• Green IT/IS reducing the cost of powering IT infrastructure
• Purchasing more environmentally friendly IT

Social Achievements

• Increasing the number of employees by recruiting women in management and employing disabled people
• Adopting telecommuting as an energy-saving way for employees to work
• Policies that encourage online collaboration tools (beyond email) to substitute for travel

Governance Achievements

• Executive leadership places high priority on environmental sustainability
• Strategic plan for environmental sustainability specifically addresses the role of IT as a consumer of electrical power
• Green-IT policy
• Green IT goals are included in the defined service levels
• Ensuring that suppliers meet Green criteria and their products support the business’s Green objectives

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• High cost of Green IT solutions
• Unclear business value in greening IT/IS
• Lack of business leadership on Green IT/IS, inadequate skills and training
• Absence of enforceable government regulations and lack of government incentives for green IT/IS
• Shortage of the awareness of environmental sustainability
• Green IT needs to expand knowledge
• Management policy focuses on profit only
• Lack of behavioral innovation for the individual
• Insufficient awareness of social responsibility
• Lack of awareness of the profession’s ethics
• Lack of government efforts
• Insufficient of companies’ experience in management and training
• Inadequate data in compute Green IT value

Mitigation Strategies

• Clear strategy for green IT goals in line with IT strategy and business strategy
• Transform IT strategy into IT operations transparently and reliably to ensure effective coordination between business and IT
• Training employees on ways to use green IT/IS
• Providing incentives and flexible government regulations to adopt and implement green IT/IS policies

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement

• Ensuring that suppliers meet Green criteria and their products support the business’s Green objectives

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities