Microsoft business sustainability strategies: PwC

Organizations around the world are striving to combat climate and reduce their carbon footprints. Beyond establishing environmentally sound operations, businesses can increase the value of their sustainability data while competing for market share and achieving growth and profitability goals. Case in point: utilizing advanced data management and AI can simplify complex systems, accelerate the creation of green solutions, engage the workforce, and help reduce reporting costs.

Together, PwC and Microsoft offer a powerful strategic approach to leveraging sustainability data and AI. Unifying and analyzing data can boost efficiency, drive financial transformation, foster tax innovation, enhance supply chains, reduce risk, and increase stability. This collaboration not only helps you achieve decarbonization goals and comply with regulations requirements but also helps, creating significant value across various sectors and within partner ecosystems.

Sustainability and the potential of data

Essential for climate-friendly strategies, sustainability data often remains underutilized due to integration challenges. By merging this data with operational and strategic insights, companies can enact real-time changes and improve future reporting. It's imperative for businesses to move beyond simple reporting and confirm that sustainability data is always accessible and embedded in daily operations.

Enhancing your approach to sustainability data can strengthen connections across your organization and create opportunities for positive change. With thorough, actionable data, your organization can make real progress toward net-zero goals, evaluate the carbon impact of suppliers, respond to customer needs, and confirm your practices are genuinely sustainable.

The elements of your business strategy should incorporate a sustainability angle that is data-driven and transparent, which can only be achieved if your data is both efficient and accessible. Microsoft and PwC provide the tools and guidance to help organizations realize the potential of their data.

PwC supports your organization’s sustainability journey

Microsoft technology has the potential to significantly reduce an organization's carbon footprint while helping address the change-management considerations involved in becoming more environmentally friendly. Here are a few of our service offerings:

PwC’s Sustainability Services: Decarbonization

Help accelerate sustainable business transformation with Microsoft technology and the guidance of more than 2,000 PwC sustainability specialists in 60 countries. Start your decarbonization journey.

Sustainability Data Insights

Help show organizations how they can use their data to model the effects of climate on operations, implement climate-friendly practices and unlock new sources of value. Transform your sustainability data management and analytics.

Sustainability integration

Businesses should move beyond basic reporting by integrating sustainability data into their operations, confirming it is readily accessible. Keeping up with changing regulations requires elevated sustainability and data management, and PwC can help your business use its data to support success.

Smart venues

Help increase business value and address consumer priorities with smart venues. We bring precision and strategy to Microsoft technology implementation so your organization can establish sustainability as a core part of your infrastructure, people experiences, resource consumption practices, transportation and more. Learn more about why sustainability matters to your smart venue.

Elevate your sustainable growth

Businesses are using technology to enhance their understanding and utilization of sustainability data. Leveraging AI and advanced data, this platform may help improve sustainability transparency, foster sustainable growth, and deliver insights beyond reporting, while reducing compliance costs.

Find out how solutions for Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability enable more seamless sustainability progress.

Microsoft Sustainability Manager

Use historical data to help reduce environmental footprint and meet emissions targets.

Sustainability data solutions

Use generative AI to unify data, align goals, and assess impacts.

Emissions Impact Dashboard

Easily view and summarize your business's cloud-related emissions and savings.

Environmental Credit Service

Standardize and clarify carbon credits to help achieve net-zero emissions.

Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager

A CSRD template helps manage data risks, implement controls, and comply with regulations.

Agriculture organizations

Azure Data Manager for Agriculture unifies data to reduce waste and boost efficiency.

Download the white paper Overcoming the climate transition challenge: How PwC and Microsoft transform sustainability into a growth driver

Case study: Driving change in retail

A recreation products retailer needed to improve its strategy for better emissions reporting and data management. PwC helped the business use Microsoft Sustainability Manager to develop scalable, creative uses for their data — ones that save work hours, improve product sustainability and support a future of carbon-conscious operations.

Case study: Decarbonizing heavy industry

When a steel manufacturing corporation needed to reduce its carbon footprint, PwC and Microsoft provided a pathway to innovation. We helped this organization automate and modernize its systems with Microsoft Sustainability Manager, Copilot and other Microsoft tools, resulting in rapid, valuable business insights; through advanced analytics and the migration of 10 years of data into a Microsoft framework, this company was able to develop a new strategy for greenhouse gas reduction in just three months.

Case study: Assessing an emissions impact

An insurance firm needed to understand the carbon cost of its employees’ commutes—but trying to gather the data from more than 55,000 employees proved challenging. PwC turned to Microsoft technology — including Power BI and Power Apps — to help the firm improve employee-survey response rates, thereby supporting more efficient sustainability reporting.