ESG Reporting & Disclosure

Hi Everyone!

Super excited to share that our Net Zero Marketplace now has a News section with some great content on sustainability as well as Net Zero Cloud.

Honored to be a part of the initial round of articles - more to come!

My first entry is focused on auditability in Net Zero Cloud and some best practices for thinking through how to implement as mandatory disclosures push us from voluntary to limited and eventually to reasonable levels of assurance of ESG data.

The FY24 Salesforce Stakeholder Impact Report is here!

I’m thrilled to share Salesforce's annual Stakeholder Impact Report, which is a comprehensive overview of all the amazing impact we drive across the business, and our version of an ESG report. This year’s report is extra special as we champion AI for impact and celebrate 25 years of leading with our values.

A few top FY24 impact highlights include:

• Accelerating ethical and sustainable AI with our guiding principles
• Driving the clean energy transition with a first-of-its-kind Distributed Renewable Energy Certificates (D-RECs) purchase
• Helping Trailblazers find their next role in the Salesforce ecosystem with the new Trailblazer Career Marketplace
• Launching the Salesforce Accelerator – AI for Impact, leveraging our 1-1-1 model to create AI solutions for education and climate
• Engaging more than half of our employees (45,000+ and counting!) across our 13 Equality Groups

Earth Day Conversation: AI & Sustainability

This Earth Day, Salesforce's Emissions Reduction expert, @Boris Gamazaychikov, teamed up with BSA | The Software Alliance for a powerful conversation on the power of AI in advancing sustainability efforts!

You can watch the full video here and learn about:

• How AI can identify hidden patterns to optimize energy use
• Using AI to streamline operations and reduce waste
• Leveraging AI to predict future trends and stay ahead of the curve in sustainable practices

This conversation is a must-listen for anyone interested in learning how AI is revolutionizing sustainability efforts and driving positive change for our planet!

And that's not all! Salesforce just released our brand new Sustainable AI Policy Principles , a roadmap for responsible AI development that benefits both businesses and the environment. Read all about it in our latest newsroom post.

Let's celebrate Earth Day by leveraging technology for good and making a positive impact!

@* Net Zero Cloud * @ESG Reporting & Disclosure @* Net Zero Marketplace *

Welcoming our new members to the ESG Reporting & Disclosure group!

At Salesforce, we strongly believe in the power of community. The sustainability world needs passionate people dedicated to making positive changes within their organizations and there is wealth of knowledge and inspiration each member of this group can share about their journey.

At the end of each month, we'll be offering new members the opportunity to introduce themselves so we can all better understand and empower each other! With that, please welcome @Annika Kolter, @Benjamin Odjoade, @Ashleigh Connors, @Shivanshi Patel!

If you're willing to, please comment on this post who you are, where in the world you're located, what your role is and what your company's ESG goals are!

We're so excited to have you as part of this community group dedicated to a more sustainable future.

Happy Friday everyone! With the launch of the Impact Hub, we are working hard on rolling out more content. We have some good things in the works, but would love to hear from you. What topics would you like to see covered? What format of content is your favorite (webinars, workshops, white papers, etc.)? 

NYC Event Alert!

We are very excited to bring the C-Suite Sustainability tour to New York City next week!

Salesforce and Deloitte are co-hosting an evening featuring Robert Eccles, Alison Taylor, Amy Quintana Avalos, Olga LaBelle, and Eben Harrell in a panel on “Sustainability as the Driver for Business Transformation and Long Term Value Creation".

Alison and Bob will discuss new research, conducted in partnership with GlobeScan and Salesforce, on the evolution of sustainability across the c-suite about how to generate long term value creation. We will explore how professionals in finance, information technology, and sustainability view the importance of sustainability today and how some are leveraging regulations like CSRD not just to ensure compliance, but act as a catalyst to drive enterprise-wide sustainability transformation.

Speakers include:

Robert Eccles, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford,

Alison Taylor, Stern School of Business, NYU (author of Higher Ground)

Amy Quintana Avalos, Chief Sustainability Business Officer, World Kinect

Olga LaBelle, VP, ESG, Warner Music Group

Eben Harrell, Sr. Editor, Harvard Business Review (moderator)

Introduction by John O'Brien, Managing Director, Sustainability and Climate, Deloitte and Brian Komar from Salesforce.

If you are interested in attending this event, please indicate your interest here and someone will be in touch with you as space allows.

The SEC will be voting (finally!) on their final climate disclosure rule next Wednesday! Rumors are abound that Scope 3 has been stripped out of the final rule.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/sec-tees-up-vote-next-week-on-climate-disclosure-rule/

AI for Sustainability: How Generative AI Can Accelerate Corporate Action and Outcomes

New and emerging requirements for organizations to communicate their social and environmental goals, plans, and progress have transformed the ESG landscape. The new regulations and focus on ESG have increased both the pace and complexity of sustainability professions, worsening the administrative and reporting burden on sustainability professionals and decreasing the capacity to drive outcomes. Fortunately, the recent emergence of generative AI technology promises to lessen this burden, particularly as it pertains to compiling information. In this webinar, Jon Powell, Global Head of Sustainability Practice at Salesforce, and Kenneth Wee, Managing Director at Accenture, will lay out how generative AI can be applied to ESG reporting tasks, how organizations can get started in this journey by thoughtfully incorporating generative AI in a trusted way, and how these actions may help unlock significant value and positive impact for organizations across the globe.

These pioneers will explore…

• The promise (and potential perils) of leveraging generative AI to support sustainable outcomes, avoiding hype and focusing on real-world evidence
• Practical use cases that can help to significantly reduce growing administrative burdens on ESG teams
• What the future of generative AI may look like and how companies can begin positioning themselves now to reap the potential benefits

WATCH THE WEBINAR NOW!

How can your organization leverage AI for ESG reporting?