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Carbon Data as an Operational Input: How Leading Businesses Are Embedding Sustainability Across Functions
Most organisations are still running sustainability like an annual project. Data gets collected, a footprint gets produced, a report gets filed…and the cycle starts again twelve months later.
That model is no longer fit for purpose. ISSB-aligned reporting standards are raising the bar on what climate disclosure requires internally: audit-ready data, continuous maintenance and governance structures that sit alongside financial reporting, not separate from it. But the more significant shift is not about compliance. It is about what organisations do with that data once they have it. The businesses moving fastest are those that have stopped treating their carbon footprint as a compliance output and started treating it as an operational input that informs procurement decisions, product design, commercial conversations and board-level risk assessment.
In this session, George Wade, Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer at Zevero, draws on real examples from businesses that have made this shift, exploring what it actually takes to embed carbon data across functions: the workflows, the accountability structures and the cross-functional processes that make emissions data a foundation for decisions rather than an annual deliverable.
You will leave with a clearer picture of where most organisations are currently falling short, what good looks like in practice and the internal steps required to get there.
