{"id":118255,"date":"2024-09-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/?p=118255"},"modified":"2024-09-25T08:05:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T15:05:20","slug":"driving-business-value-with-esg-data-readiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/sustainability\/2024\/09\/25\/driving-business-value-with-esg-data-readiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving business value with ESG data readiness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Customers from many industries have been reaching out to us to discuss how they can move beyond their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting, to where they can also spot opportunities to drive sustainability progress and reduce carbon across their value chains. At Microsoft, we\u2019ve been tackling related questions for nearly two decades, and in 2020 we committed<\/a> to becoming carbon negative, zero waste, and water positive, and to protecting more land than we use. We share our successes and setbacks annually in our Environmental Sustainability Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, we\u2019re sharing additional learnings\u2014from our efforts and those of our global ecosystem of partners and customers, and from advice we\u2019ve received from external sustainability experts\u2014in the Leader\u2019s Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation<\/a>. The guide offers practical tips to help business leaders consider what steps can help their organizations build a culture and infrastructure around ESG data, and provides context for taking the Microsoft ESG Data Readiness Assessment<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For quick examples of industry-specific considerations addressed in the guide, see the chart below<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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