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Putting CLIMATE into Practice: Building an Inventory Management Plan

Katie Robinson is a Corporate Sustainability Strategist at Akamai. She focuses on the company’s emissions impact strategy and leads the development and deployment of Akamai’s environmental management system.

In a previous blog post, Beyond the Ledger: Why Akamai Is Redefining How We Measure CLIMATE Impact, we examined why traditional, balance sheet–style carbon accounting falls short when a company wants to measure real-world environmental impact. Our conclusion was straightforward: To make a genuine difference, corporate sustainability teams need to move past simply tracking “What is our share of global emissions?” and start answering a much tougher question: “What is the actual consequence of our business decisions?”

Shifting from a passive accounting model to an active, impact-driven framework is challenging.…