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
