FEATURE : SUSTAINABILITY
Customer-required reporting , public reporting and supply chain compliance reporting are shown as having significantly increased over the past two years since Forrester first conducted this study in 2021 . What can be done to improve incremental progress where respondents say measurement and reporting is limited to once per year or quarter ?
To encourage more regular reporting , businesses need to be able to view and measure their energy use and impact . Connected digital technologies play a pivotal role in constantly forming a detailed picture of an organisation ’ s carbon footprint , enabling the energy needs of factories , warehouses and offices to be tracked and monitored . Data is king – this ensures the unique needs of every building are clearly understood and can be optimised . Then , practical net zero plans become far simpler to create , implement and achieve .
THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THE TECHNOLOGY EXISTS TODAY TO MAKE A REAL IMPACT .
These digital platforms are powerful drivers of decarbonisation . Johnson Controls ’ OpenBlue platform , for example , magnifies reductions achieved with efficient operating equipment alone by some 50 % or more , while slashing utility bills and supporting the imperative of capital preservation . Harnessing software to enable and then capture these savings is a crucial part of meeting current and future carbon footprint regulations .
Roughly a third of respondents expect AI will have a significant impact on improving sustainability in company-owned spaces by providing them actionable recommendations to prevent downtime and optimise efficiencies before losses occur . How might that expectation play out ?
Equipment failures hurt business and the environment . When equipment goes down business is interrupted or stopped altogether and revenues can be lost . Emissions go up too since trucks need to roll to the affected facility to diagnose and attempt to repair the equipment . Often , trucks need to roll several times and emissions are multiplied since problem diagnosis , sourcing of needed parts and repair typically is not all accomplished in a single run . Moreover , if spare equipment is used temporarily , that equipment rarely is as up to date or efficient , and many times diesel generators also need to be fired up to support the spare .
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