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Specialist Digital Sustainability Advice to Manage ICT Carbon Footprints
Organisations may look for specialist advice in several areas to address digital sustainability and manage their carbon footprint. By leveraging such specialist advice, organisations can move from passive reporting to actionable, informed insights, effectively mitigating risks, enhancing brand image, and contributing positively to global climate action.
Carbon Accounting and Emissions Measurement
Expertise in developing an inventory of emissions across an organisation, product, or service, creating a baseline for improvement over time. This includes understanding and applying the GHG Protocol standards for Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.
IT Sourcing Strategies
Revising policies for technology sourcing to reduce IT carbon emissions, such as optimising the number of end-user devices, extending hardware lifespans, and implementing aggressive recycling programmes. This extends to setting green standards for vendors and suppliers, requiring GHG emissions disclosures, and incorporating carbon emissions into purchasing decisions.
GreenOps Integration
Assistance in turning digital sustainability visions into reality by establishing GreenOps practices. This includes baselining digital carbon emissions, eliminating waste, driving the adoption of the circular economy, and crafting actionable remediation roadmaps aligned with net-zero aspirations. It often involves integrating GreenOps into existing FinOps practices to deliver tangible results in cloud waste reduction and emissions savings.
Metrics and Performance Management Systems
Establishing a "green ROI" metric that accounts for both costs and carbon saved. This involves setting a baseline, measuring progress, and tracking impact in near real-time, prioritising measurement where the impact is highest (e.g., end-user devices, power consumption).
Holistic Digital Transformation
Transforming and modernising enterprise infrastructure, applications, and services to be more sustainable, cost-effective, and automated. This includes enabling remote work to reduce emissions from commuting and office infrastructure.
Training and Culture Development
Building organisational awareness and commitment, ensuring IT teams can explain climate change fundamentals and the need for GHG reduction, and fostering a culture that prioritises efficiency in IT resource usage.
Cloud Sustainability and Optimisation
Guidance on understanding and measuring cloud-related emissions, particularly Scope 3 emissions from hyperscalers like Amazon AWS, Google, or Microsoft Azure. This involves advice on scrutinising cloud providers for their sustainability performance, 24/7 Carbon Free power and seeking those with strong Power & Water usage effectiveness ratings hosted in lower embodied carbon facilities. Ensuring their ability to provide accurate, granular, and timely Scope 3 data, including water use, with API access and ISO 14064 verification. Specialists can also help with migrating workloads to greener cloud services and optimising cloud usage to reduce emissions.