Sustainability Baseline Report
The Sustainability Baseline report provides a comprehensive overview of your organization’s carbon footprint, breaking down emissions across key categories, subcategories, and locations. It also evaluates hardware-specific impacts and explores the potential benefits of cloud migration for server emissions. These insights are designed to reveal your organization’s carbon hotspots with the goal of enabling you to drive and measure meaningful emission reductions.
The Value of the Sustainability Baseline Report
The Sustainability Baseline report empowers decision makers to:
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Identify high-impact areas contributing to the organization's carbon footprint across categories, hardware, and locations. |
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Strategically plan for emissions reduction through hardware lifecycle optimization, location-specific initiatives, and cloud migration. |
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Align sustainability efforts with corporate goals and compliance requirements to drive long-term environmental and operational benefits. |
Sustainability Baseline Report Pages
The Sustainability Baseline report includes four report pages to render different sustainability perspectives on your organization's inventory:
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Category Carbon Footprint
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This page includes the following details:
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Breaks down total emissions (kgCO2e) by category (computer, mobile phones, and so forth) and subcategory (laptops, desktops, servers). |
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Highlights the relationships between technology currency (lifecycle stages), category, subcategory, and carbon footprint. |
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Displays emissions data by subcategory and device, with detailed tables showing emissions from each scope level across categories and devices. |
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Provides a table that shows your organizations inventory that needs to be updated with sustainability information. The content of this table can be used to initiate gap-fill requests or otherwise investigate these assets to better understand their sustainability impact. |
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Hardware Carbon Footprint
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This page includes the following details:
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Manufacturer Insights—Displays total carbon footprint by manufacturer, identifying top emitters. |
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Top 10 Hardware Models—Displays top 10 hardware models with the highest emissions. |
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Sustainability Baseline Summary—Includes emissions data by category, subcategory, manufacturer, and technology currency risk. |
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Carbon Emissions Baseline Summary—Includes emissions data by product, model, and technology lifecycle stage. |
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Total Carbon Footprint Summary—Consolidates emissions data for each manufacturer, product, model, energy efficiency indicators (for example, ENERGY STAR ratings), green scores, device counts, and total kgCO2e. |
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Location Carbon Footprint (when location data is available in your inventory data)
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This page includes the following details:
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Top 5 Locations—Displays the top 5 locations by emissions and a map for better geographical insights. |
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Organizational Breakdown—Presents emissions by business unit and location—offering a detailed view of carbon hotspots. |
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Sustainability Report Summary—Integrates emissions by business unit, cost center, and location to enable targeted sustainability actions. |
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Server Emissions Impact
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This interactive page enables you to:
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Estimate the potential reduction in carbon footprint by transitioning on-premises servers to cloud computing. |
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Input the number of on-premises servers to calculate the energy and carbon savings from cloud adoption. |
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Understanding Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 Emissions
Emissions are commonly divided into 3 scopes for sustainability reporting:
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Scope 1
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Direct emissions from sources an organization owns or controls--such as on-site fuel combustion. One example is the emissions from backup generators running on diesel.
Scope 1 emissions are greenhouse gas emissions that a reporting company generates using its assets. These assets are within the company's scope of control. In other words, they result from things the company owns or directly controls, which is why Scope 1 is referred to as direct emissions.
Examples of Scope 1 emissions sources include the following:
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Onsite manufacturing equipment. |
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Gas-powered vehicles, including forklifts, delivery vans, and other company-related mobile equipment. |
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Refrigerants used for commercial cooling equipment, refrigerators, and air conditioning systems. |
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Accidental leaks and spills, such as refrigerant leaks and chemical spills. |
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Fugitive emissions, which are unintentional emissions from things such as industrial processes, refrigerators, or gas transmission lines. |
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Any controlled or owned asset fuel burning. |
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Scope 2
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Indirect emissions created by the reporting organization from the consumption of purchased electricity, steam, heating, and cooling are considered Scope 2 emissions. Scope 2 emissions are considered indirect emissions because although the reporting organization's activities generate greenhouse gas emissions, they occur at another source, such as at an energy company's site. These emissions can vary dramatically across locations.
Examples of Scope 2 emissions sources include the following:
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Electricity for powering machinery or vehicles. |
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Natural gas heating for buildings. |
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Power for data centers and computing servers. |
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Scope 3
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Other indirect emissions that occur in the value chain of the provider, including both upstream and downstream emissions. For example, emissions from building of the data center, manufacturing of IT equipment, commuting of employees, and disposing of waste.
Scope 3 emissions encompass all other emissions resulting from an organization's operations that aren't part of Scope 1 or Scope 2. As such, Scope 3 comprises emissions produced by entities up and down the organization's value chain, from the raw materials it sources to the disposal of its products. This category of indirect emissions makes up most of an organization's carbon footprint which includes upstream and downstream emissions.
Examples Upstream Scope 3 emissions categories:
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Purchased goods and services. |
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Fuel and energy activities that are not part of Scope 1 or Scope 2. |
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Operationally generated waste. |
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Upstream leased assets. |
Examples Downstream Scope 3 emissions categories:
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Solid product processing. |
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End of Life treatment of sold products. |
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Downstream leased assets. |
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