Net Zero for Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) – Now What?
Discover how TMT companies are adopting sustainability strategies to reduce risk exposures, improve baseline performance and create sustainable businesses over the longer term.
Path to Net-Zero: Plenty of 'E', but less 'S' or 'G' in tech, telecom
Many of the biggest technology and telecom companies have set ambitious environmental goals, although their social and governance issues complicate their appeal to sustainability investors.
The top five biggest technology companies by market capitalization — Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. — have spent the past decade or two achieving carbon neutrality and even moving into carbon negative territory. The top three U.S. telcos — AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and T-Mobile US Inc. — subsequently joined the bandwagon, setting their own carbon neutrality and renewable energy targets over the past three years.
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Sustainability in Tech
Sustainability is one of the most critical issues of our time, having a transformative effect on industries and societies. The fulfillment of many sustainability mandates can only be accomplished through continued digital transformation and IT innovation.
Learn how we are supporting the technology sector in the transition to a more sustainable and equitable society.
S&P Capital IQ Pro platform: Integrated sustainability intelligence with financial and industry data
Combining essential sustainability data intelligence with financial and industry data, research and news, alongside vivid data visualization and analytical features, the S&P Capital IQ Pro platform provides integrated insights to get ahead in the transition to a low carbon, sustainable and equitable future.
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451 Research Datacenter KnowledgeBase
The 451 Research Datacenter KnowledgeBase dataset provides datacenter location, services, and utilization data to support cloud services, sustainability, energy, media, and critical infrastructure analysis. Users will have access to a global database of 7,600+ colocation and wholesale datacenter facilities, covering more than 90 data points per facility.
Trucost Sustainable Development Goals Analytics
The Trucost Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Analytics dataset quantitatively measure the SDG alignment of a company's products and services. This dataset enables you to benchmark companies against each other in terms of their SDG performance, while also offering portfolio-level metrics to measure risk exposure and SDG alignment.
Trucost Environmental
The Trucost Environmental data measures environmental impact across key dimensions for over 15,000 companies. This data can be used to assess environmental costs, identify, and manage environmental and climate risk as well as conduct peer and portfolio analysis from a climate and environmental perspective.
Trucost Carbon Earnings at Risk
The Trucost Carbon Earnings at Risk dataset enables users to assess company-level exposure to current and future carbon pricing scenarios. Integral to this analysis is the calculation of the Unpriced Carbon Cost, which is defined as the difference between what a company pays for carbon today and what it may pay at a given future date based on its sector, operations, and under different climate change scenarios.
Trucost Physical Risk
Trucost's Physical Risk dataset assesses company exposure to physical risk at the asset-level based on a database of over 2 Million + assets mapped to 15,000+ listed companies in the S&P Market Intelligence database.
Trucost Paris Alignment
The Trucost Paris Alignment data assesses company-level alignment with the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C from pre-industrial levels.
Leverage this dataset to track your portfolios and benchmarks against the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees C and 2 degrees C climate change scenarios. The dataset allows users to identify the scale of reductions required by 2025 and beyond to meet the Paris Agreement goal.
Case Study:Integrating Net Zero Analysis in a Company’s Reporting System
This top chemical company leveraged the latest available technologies to create an internal data management and reporting system that leveraged visualization capabilities to provide deep insights about the business. To capitalize on these advanced capabilities, the head of sustainability wanted to have his team’s environmental assessments for net zero available on the upgraded system. First, he needed to take the analysis of the company’s carbon footprint, and those of its major suppliers and customers, to a new level.
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