Notes from a Digital ESG Journey

A reflection from many conversations across the sustainability, data governance and standards communities on what is desired, possible and practical in terms of implementing Digital ESG.

This will explore:

• *Can you count every fish in the ocean?
• * Scope 1 emissions
• * Scope 2 – emissions for on-premise computing
• * Scope 3 – emissions for cloud infrastructure
• * Offsets
• * Water usage
• * The implications for resilience and sovereignty on how and where (provider and geography) is data stored
• * The handling of electronic waste
• * Aligning environmental metrics to opportunities for data minimisation
• * The specific impact of AI
• * The social aspects – Sustainability by design, digital inclusions
• * Wrapping up with governance calls to action