Sustainable Infrastructure in Corporations
Sustainable infrastructure is becoming increasingly important for businesses. Governments are tightening regulations to limit carbon emissions, investors are linking financing to sustainability standards, and companies are under growing pressure to specifically reduce their resource consumption and carbon footprint. Data centers, telecommunications networks, and IT environments play a particularly central role in this context.
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If you want to document your digital infrastructure centrally, make resource usage and emissions transparent, and create a reliable foundation for more efficient and sustainable operations, our Asset Inventory and PLUS packages are the right choice.
Main Components of a Sustainable Infrastructure in Corporations
Comprehensive sustainable infrastructure management requires a two-pronged approach. One part focuses on GHG emissions, the other on overall efficiency and resource usage within the infrastructure. Implementing both is the best way to ensure you achieve your sustainability goals.
Highlights of FNT’s Infrastructure Management Solution for Corporate Sustainability
FNT provides businesses with the information and tools to reduce the carbon footprint of their digital infrastructure. Our solution supports energy efficiency and emissions reduction by enabling precise documentation of the infrastructure, including GHG emissions, and storing this information as part of an asset digital twin. Planning and management functionality embedded in the software enable tracking and optimization of resource use and resulting emissions.
Our solution consists of two parts:
- FNT Sustainability: This component documents detailed emissions data, capturing a full range of environmental impact factors—including embodied CO2, freshwater use, mineral resource depletion, and acidification—from both physical devices and virtual elements. It records these emissions during the use phase for each element in the IT, network, and data center infrastructure.
- FNT Command: This is the management platform where emissions data is stored and utilized, alongside comprehensive information about the entire infrastructure. Networks, applications, hardware, and services, as well as the relationships and dependencies between them, are documented in FNT Command along with the environmental factors from FNT Sustainability. The platform’s management features—covering analysis, visualization, planning, and process management, including workflows and work orders—help users identify and resolve inefficiencies, enabling more efficient and cost-effective operations. All of which makes the infrastructure more sustainable.
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FAQ: Improving Corporate Sustainability
There are many regulations, and they differ from country to country. Some of the most notable include:
- Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) – provides businesses with the global common language to communicate their environmental impacts
- Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) – develops sustainability accounting standards for public corporations
- Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) – requires EU countries to report on energy efficiency investments
- Corporate Sustainability Reporting (CSR) – requires large and listed EU companies to publish reports on their social and environmental risks and impacts
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are separated into three categories, or scopes. Companies use these scopes to understand their value chain emissions and identify areas for reduction.
- Scope 1 - Direct emissions from sources owned or controlled by the company, such as running vehicles and generators.
- Scope 2 - Indirect emissions from the purchase and use of energy, such as electricity, steam, heating, and cooling. These emissions are a consequence of the activities of the company but occur from sources not owned or controlled by it.
- Scope 3 - Similar to Scope 2 emissions, these indirect emissions are a consequence of the activities of the company but occur from sources not owned or controlled by it. They can occur anywhere in the company's value chain, including upstream and downstream activities.
Consequences vary by country or region. Some countries or regions legally mandate carbon reporting, and some have regulations that are not enforceable by law, but businesses can be penalized for non-compliance. Depending on where a business is located, there can be financial penalties assessed for non-compliance. Another financial consequence for failing to report is being ineligible for the many tax exemption programs governments worldwide offer as incentives to encourage sustainability efforts. To apply and prove eligibility, sound documentation and proof of progress is required. Finally, some investors require emissions reporting for access to their funding.
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