The report covers seven focus areas within environmental, social, and governance (ESG): energy, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, waste, water, and biodiversity, social responsibility, and governance. 

Diversity and inclusion is also gaining traction among advisory firms. 

TCO Certified helps get the purchaser's voice directly into the IT supply chain, where the majority of a smartphone's lifetime sustainability impacts are found. Criteria are designed to drive change where it matters most. With a wide choice of certified product models from well-known brands, it is the certification of choice for purchasers wanting to select IT products responsibly.

An organization can become more operationally efficient and demonstrate a return on investment (ROI) when meeting sustainability goals. The ROI can potentially include reduced power consumption, waste reduction for packaging, cost-effective heating and cooling solutions, supply chain efficiency, and more.

Gas-insulated switchgear, widely used in MV secondary substations, conventionally contain SF₆, which has excellent dielectric and arc-extinguishing properties, but, at the same time, is the world’s most potent greenhouse gas, with a global warming potential 25,200 times that of CO₂.

By virtue of OriginMark’s material traceability and unique assembly relationship data structure, valuable embodied carbon data can be computed based on an aggregate total and origination of materials inside the individual components, whether that’s a single uninterruptible power supply (UPS), a data center, or a customer’s multi-location presence across Aligned campuses. 

The current moment represents an opportunity for companies to demonstrate their ability to respond to change.