Sustainability Program Tracking
Organizations are challenged with identifying the least costly and most effective ways of meeting sustainability targets, such as carbon reduction, energy conservation, water reduction, and reduction of supply chain emissions. With the Sustainability Program Tracking module, you can compare the potential cost savings and emissions savings of candidate projects and choose the projects that are best equipped to meet your targets. After you select the project to initiate, you can track and manage the project by using the module.
In Sustainability Program Tracking, actions or projects can be organized in a simple two-tier structure, where you define a program and add actions to programs. Alternatively, you can use a more complex structure three-tier structure with programs, action plans, and actions.
In Sustainability Program Tracking, each action is associated with a data type, for example, the lighting adjustment action is associated with Electricity [kWh]. The action might be introduced to reduce the cost of electricity, the amount of electricity consumed, or the emissions from electricity.
- Annual cost savings
- Annual unit savings
- Implementation costs
When you track your projects in Sustainability Program Tracking, you can customize how to represent your projects either by customizing the existing field names and values or by adding new fields.
Sustainability Program Tracking can serve as a data repository for your projects. As well as tracking candidate and active projects, you can keep a record of those sustainability projects that were not approved because of implementation costs or poor potential savings.
You can distribute the task of data capture for projects across your base of IBM® ESG Suite users. Each user can log in to Sustainability Program Tracking and capture the project data for their locations or sites. Each user can see the projects that are associated with their location only.
Several reports are available to help you project the expected emissions, energy, and cost savings that are associated with your projects. You can use a scenario modelling tool to see the potential impact of each project on financial performance and sustainability performance into the future. The reports help you model possible scenarios and determine which projects are worth your investment.