Stories of impact

Stories of impact: How three companies prioritised ESG performance to pursue intelligence, improvements and innovative growth

BBC (UK): BBC’s journey to net zero

Sustainability topic: Emissions, energy efficiency

Risk: Sizeable carbon footprint due to the scale of their broadcasting and production operations

Opportunity: Use ESG data to inform actions to reduce emissions, improve energy efficiency and achieve net zero

Action: BBC implemented Microsoft Sustainability Manager to verify data, unlock insights to reduce emissions, track progress and view details of how targets were achieved - Read more

The Arnott’s Group (Australia): Data intelligence drives measurable progress and builds stakeholder trust

Sustainability topic: Emissions

Risk: Inefficient operations, credibility with stakeholders, limited growth

Opportunity: Build an interconnected supply chain management system to reduce emissions and deliver better products

Action: The Arnott’s Group unified its ESG data intelligence using Microsoft Sustainability Manager, which provided an integrated and automated view of operations across the organisation to reveal opportunities for process improvement and product innovation - Read more

Boliden (Sweden): Innovating how metals are mined

Sustainability topic: Safer mining operations

Risk: Increased accidents, dam instability

Opportunity: Maximise data intelligence and technologies to drive informed and innovative operational practices that prioritise worker safety and reduce environmental impact

Action: Boliden implemented Microsoft Azure products to connect on-site hardware and systems to high-demand computing and advanced data and analytics on the cloud, enabling the organisation to collect data on productivity and safety across remote and rugged areas. Adding in other data, for example, weather forecasts, allowed Boliden to innovate on and adjust practices in real time - Read more