Environmental

Social

Governance

Environmental

• Carbon emissions measurement
  • Get a rough estimate of the company’s carbon emissions from free calculators (e.g., Carbon Trust, ON A MISSION, Planetly, Sustain.Life).
  • Sign up for Leaders for Climate Action (which also provides a free calculator to members!) and/or Tech Zero to join a community of like-minded founders who are also working toward net zero.
  • When ready, consider paid tools to conduct more-precise emissions measurement, as there are many great options available; for solutions reachable for smaller companies, we are most familiar with:
    • Globally: Pathzero, Plan A, Planetly, Supercritical
    • Japan: Zeroboard, booost technologies, Asuzero
• To start reducing the company’s emissions
  • What actions can be taken within the HQ or, if applicable, other offices? Encourage small actions from employees.
    • Go paperless
    • Optimize electricity usage, heating/cooling
  • Look into available solutions from major data storage providers that may already be used by the company.
    • Google Cloud
    • Microsoft Azure
    • Amazon AWS

Social

• Measure diversity metrics.
• Read across key themes.
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
  • Remote work
  • Employee benefits (Please note that these are often influenced by local laws and customs, e.g., here [US focused].)
  • Understanding risks around ethics and other important design elements (EthicalOS)
    • Forthcoming tools to better understand and assess AI risks (e.g., potential ethics failures)

Governance

• Map out the current composition of the board of directors, determine what the ideal skill-set matrix will be, and figure out how to adapt the board to that vision.
  • Include independence.
  • An expanded network is critical to finding the right board candidates.
• Data privacy and security
  • Review data privacy and security policy (benchmarking against peers and what they publish).
  • Draft and publish a data privacy and security policy, drawing on frameworks such as　Ethical OS and Tech Risk Zones