Internal Stakeholder: Employees and shareholders

External Stakeholder: Shareholders and investors, suppliers, residents, customers, end users, cloud-service providers

• Operating measurement system indicating the impact of digital technologies on sustainability criteria
• Inclusion of CDR perspective in sustainability report
• Consider IT energy expenses (e.g., carbon footprint) when designing a sustainability concept
• Consideration of carbon footprint while making purchasing decisions
• Integration of sustainable conditionality regarding business partnerships
• Assuming responsibility for business cycles (waste management)

• Use of digital solutions and AI approaches to identify and monitor carbon footprint
• Use of digital technologies to foster efficiency gains (electronic charging stations, demand response management, smart grid access, sharing economy, efficient recycling, smart logistics)

• Materiality analysis: Searching for potential areas of improvement through digitization
• Establishing a strategic connection between digitization and climate goals: Assessment of potential areas of change
• Identifying roles and responsibilities
• Evaluating opportunities to integrate digitization strategies with energy management systems,
• Benefitting from “lessons learned” and creating synergies between sustainability and CDR strategies
• Awareness-raising measures targeting existing positions
• Provision of documents and guidelines on the implementation of defined processes
• Integration of digital responsibility initiatives in environmental statements
• Alignment of sustainability objectives with project proposals
• Inclusion of CDR in reporting processes
• Responsible parties form an ethics board
• Reviewing the constant inclusion of environmental strategies in processes directed towards restructuring IT
• Internal and external communication
• Proactive communication to justify data collection
• Highlighting conflicting lines with data protection and solve them transparently
• Collaboration and exchange with external stakeholders on best practices (e.g., NGOs, associations)

• Increase transparency and comprehensibility of product life cycles: Usage of Internet of Things to interconnect processes
• Implement circular economy to reduce the use of primary resources
• Introduce resource recovery cycles (e.g., transformation of waste into secondary raw materials)
• Extending product usage to reduce rate of raw material extraction and waste generation
• Usage of sharing platforms to access rare products
• Implement a circular supply chain: Replacement of traditional material inputs with raw materials from biodegradable, renewable or recovered materials
• Name sustainable targets in Code of Conduct or established CDR handbook
• Survey digital emissions: “digital carbon footprint”, including also external energy consumption (e.g., computing centres, outsourced services)

• Circular economy including a sustainable product design that addresses sustainability targets directly
• Environmental Digital Agenda (BMU)
• BMVJ Sustainability goals of CDR Initiative (BMJV)
• Sustainability standards of GRI, SDG, DNK, SASB
• Energy management system 50001
• ISO 14001 Environmental Management System
• ISO 26000
• GHG Protocol
• ISO 14064-1
• TCFD
• EU Taxonomy

• CDR practice guide by Saskia Dörr
• econsense blueprint for implementing digital responsibility in companies
• nachhaltig.digital

• Sustainable Business Canvas
• Business Ethics Canvas (link)
• WeSustain Software for recording CO2 emissions
• Quentic
• SoFi thinkstep
• Sphera
• Adobe resource calculator
• 14001 Environmental Management System and Energy Management System
• Effectiveness analysis (audit and control)
• SWOT and materiality analysis