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Sustainability Data Strategy Guide

In this guide, you'll learn how Salesforce integrates sustainability data with Net Zero Cloud and the key steps to follow for your own organization.

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A 5-Step Framework to Sustainable Value Creation

Create business value with sustainability

Using insights from our most sustainability-mature customers, we've created a 5-step framework to sustainability value creation.

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Sustainability Data Strategy FAQs

A sustainability data strategy is a comprehensive plan for how an organization will collect, manage, and use its sustainability data to inform its business decisions and prepare for new reporting regulations. It helps to move a company from manual, siloed data to real-time, automated data flows.

The benefits of a sustainability data strategy include increased speed and efficiency in reporting, and a strong data foundation for an AI-powered future. It helps a company overcome challenges like unstandardized and stale data, which are common in sustainability reporting.

Challenges of sustainability reporting include manual data collection processes, unstandardized data, and a lack of real-time insights. These issues can make reporting time-consuming and can lead to a lack of trust in the reported data from stakeholders.

The key steps in creating a data strategy for sustainability include prioritizing data based on materiality and quality, determining the right timing for data collection, and building a business case for technology investment. It also involves training the right team and continuously improving the process.

A company can improve its sustainability data quality by integrating data from various sources into a single platform. This helps to standardize the data, which reduces errors and provides a more accurate and reliable foundation for reporting and analysis.