Sustainability & digitization go hand-in-hand

Our Sustainability Advisory Services can be used step-by-step or stand-alone in a full digitization journey based on your specific needs. We can support you in becoming compliant with current sustainability reporting legislation and advise you on how your ESG data can be leveraged beyond just reporting to realize its full potential.​

The services focus on​

• Sustainability Maturity Assessment – assessing the current state on several angles of your sustainability efforts and ESG data estate from where we envision your future state​
• Digital Sustainability Strategy – creating a strategy and roadmap on how to reach your envisioned future state through digital transformation​
• Sustainability & CSRD Reporting – actionable, detailed transformation plans on implementing the sustainability reporting solutions we see meet your needs to comply with necessary regulations​
• ESG Data platform & Insights- demonstrating your future vision by identifying the technology, solutions, and AI capabilities to leverage

In order to envision your future state, you need to know where you stand today. ​

Together, we conducted an assessment of your current maturity level within sustainability. The assessment aligns with our Connected Company Accelerator program, and we utilize the assessment format we developed for several domains, including sustainability. Throughout the assessment, we look into several areas related to your sustainability efforts and ESG data estate, such as strategy, impacts, organization, governance, data collection, and reporting.

To properly navigate along the way to your future state, you need to know in what direction you are heading. ​

We support your digital sustainability transformation in making the right choices and setting the right direction. We do this by creating a strategy and roadmap for how you will reach your envisioned future state as a sustainable business and leverage your ESG data estate.

Sustainability reporting 2.0, pushed by the CSRD, is now covering the full ESG spectra.

Since your business likely needs to disclose hundreds of data points regarding digital solutions, automating your reporting is necessary to avoid drowning under an unbearable manual workload.​

We identify the sustainability reporting solutions that best suit your needs to comply with necessary regulations and establish actionable, detailed transformation plans for implementing them.

An ESG data platform with real-time insights is the key for you to gain the ability to make informed data-driven decisions within sustainability.

We advise you on how to gain access to data within your existing technical landscape and along your value chain in the best way possible, enabling you to take data-driven decision-making into your long-term sustainability strategy, planning, and day-to-day operations. ​

In order to ensure you how to get there, we demonstrate your future vision by identifying the technology, solutions, and AI capabilities to leverage.

The Microsoft Sustainability Manager unifies your data to monitor and manage environmental sustainability performance, from calculating sustainability footprint and analyzing ESG performance to providing data governance.​

Calculate sustainability footprint

• Data integration from disparate sources​
• Supplier data capture​
• Data standardization in data models ​
• Environmental calculations ​
• Lifecycle assessments​
• Product carbon footprint measurement​

Analyze ESG performance against goals​

• Continuous progress tracking​
• Dashboard visualization ​

Provide data governance​

• Audit trails​
• Workflow management and governance​

Report impact and progress​

• Regulatory and voluntary agency reporting templates
• Stakeholder reporting

The sustainability data solutions in Microsoft Fabric reduce time to insights by standardizing data in a comprehensive ESG data estate, ready for advanced ESG analytics.

ESG data estate ​

• Compute, analyze, and disclose ESG metrics by centralizing and transforming disparate data into standardized ESG data lakes.​

Microsoft Azure emissions insights ​

• Report and analyze Microsoft Azure emissions data by collecting and processing subscription- and resource-level emissions data in a data lake​.

Environmental metrics and analytics​

• Build custom reports, environmental metrics, and insightful analytics for carbon, water, and waste by connecting to data in Microsoft Sustainability Manager.​

Social and governance metrics and reports​

• Compute, analyze, and disclose social and governance metrics by combining and transforming disparate data into a standardized data lake.

Microsoft Sustainability Reporting (Project ESG reporting) reduces complexity, enhances efficiency, and provides greater transparency for ESG reporting of both quantitative and qualitative metrics.

Create, complete, and approve ESG disclosures​

• Collaboratively create ESG disclosure reports across a range of standards and frameworks. ​
• Handles both quantitative and qualitative metrics​
• Approval and audit workflows help your organization ensure compliance and data accuracy. ​
• Extensibility for custom template creations​
• Integration opportunity with Microsoft Sustainability Manager integration for simplified data management​

Current supported standards and frameworks​

• Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)​
• Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)​
• International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 1 and 2​
• Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)​
• And more...​

Experience tracking required actions and documenting evidence for compliance initiatives with prebuilt templates aligned to major ​ESG reporting standards​.

Prebuilt templates aligned to major ​ESG reporting standards​

• Navigate standards per reporting item and ​compile data from multiple source systems.
• Explore and understand the scope of the CSRD requirements.
• Take inventory of your data protection risks.​
• Visualize metrics data against CSRD disclosure requirements.
• Invite internal or external auditors to audit your metrics data in Compliance Manager, where you can review and add comments.
• Stay current with regulations and certifications.​​

​Management of complex workflows​

• Prepare for audits and reporting

​More reporting capabilities are coming soon!

Calculate your carbon footprint using Power BI template apps and validate carbon accounting with the Emissions Impact Dashboard for Azure and the Emissions Impact Dashboard for Microsoft 365.

Emissions Impact Dashboard for Azure​

• Gives you transparency on the carbon emissions generated by your usage of Azure and Microsoft 365. ​Microsoft is the only cloud provider to provide this level of transparency to customers
• Microsoft is the only cloud provider that provides this level of transparency to customers when compiling reports for voluntary or statutory reporting requirements.

Emissions Impact Dashboard for Microsoft 365​

Reports data center emissions and active usage associated with the following applications:

• Exchange Online​
• SharePoint​
• OneDrive​
• Microsoft Teams​
• Word​
• Excel​
• PowerPoint​
• Outlook​​

The data model in Microsoft 365's Cloud for Sustainability allows you to retrieve data directly from existing systems. This allows for real-time monitoring of targets and helps define actions to reduce impact immediately. ​

In Footprint 365, you can use various methods, including spend-based, average-based, and hybrid methods, to report emissions. It provides detailed analytics where financial transactions can be used for both financial audits and CSRD reporting. The solution offers an audit trail, allowing each emission to be traced directly back to the source activity.

• Get a jumpstart in automated & integrated carbon footprint reporting based on Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations
• The same data stream that is used for financial accounting and audits leaves no room for error
• GHG Protocol aligned, covering most commonly material GHG emission categories
• A Power BI dashboard matched to CSRD disclosure

Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture (Microsoft ADMA) is a cloud-based solution for optimizing agricultural resources and reducing waste. It uses sensors, data analytics, and machine learning algorithms to provide insights into crop health, soil moisture, and weather patterns.​ Growers can use this information to make data-driven irrigation, fertilizer application, and pest management decisions.

• It helps increase crop yield, reduce environmental impact, and improve farmers' profitability.​
• Leverages high-quality datasets to accelerate the development of digital agriculture solutions.​
• Extends the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform with industry-specific data connectors and capabilities to connect farm data from disparate sources.​
• The platform integrates with other Microsoft tools, such as Power BI and Azure IoT, to provide a comprehensive solution for agriculture.