The importance of EHS and ESG data is growing significantly, and ERM’s insight and expertise will be crucial for enabling businesses to make sense of and generate value from this information."
Steve Nunn
President and CEO, The Open Group
ERM joins the Open Footprint Forum
Photo credit: Joe Casey, United States
ERM is pleased to announce that we have joined The Open Group Open Footprint™ Forum, the vendor-neutral technology consortium aiming to create open standards for footprint-related data, including emissions and consumptions (e.g., water, land and energy).
Accurate and transparent environmental footprint data is critical – not only for mandatory compliance reporting and meeting customer and partner demands, but also for taking action on ambitious emission reduction goals.
“Accurate and transparent environmental footprint data is critical – not only for mandatory compliance reporting and meeting customer and partner demands, but also for taking action on ambitious emission reduction goals,” said Sammy Lakshmanan, Global Head of Digital Services, ERM and Co-Chair of the Open Footprint. “We’re excited to join the Open Footprint Forum and collaborating to develop open standards that will help organizations better manage their footprints and unlock the power of data.”
Focusing on greenhouse gas emissions data initially, the Open Footprint Forum will work to define, design and deliver Open Footprint Data Platform standards. Accurate data on emissions, consumptions, and base calculations in this area will enable businesses to compare the footprint of goods and services in the value chain across every industry. Alongside these standards, the Open Footprint Forum will create an open source-based system, which will be accessible to all organizations.
ERM’s membership in the Open Footprint Forum will provide our clients with early access to common ways of reporting and benchmarking sustainability data across the Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) communities.