Where geography meets science to create a sustainable future
Explore how organisations can generate growth, while ensuring a socially and environmentally sustainable world for future generations
Definition
In today’s world, organisations are increasingly recognising the importance of operating sustainably, including the need to take action to mitigate climate change. What this means in practice is protecting the environment and contributing to society, while achieving economic growth and resilience. Esri technology is playing an increasingly significant role in helping organisations achieve their sustainability goals and meet regulation.
Leaders in business and government apply location technology to help inform and deliver their sustainability strategy. Examples of location intelligence use cases include mitigating climate change, understanding habitat, delivering biodiversity net gain, making communities more sustainable, supporting green energy projects and de-risking supply chains.
Environmental
Corporate and public landowners, such as NHS Fife, are adopting ArcGIS to help them understand habitats across their estates and manage their land in a more sustainable way.
Environmental
With the introduction of new legislation on Biodiversity Net Gain, housing and infrastructure developers are also employing ArcGIS to understand the environmental impacts of their projects. Many of Esri UK’s customers, including Anglian Water, already make effective use of ArcGIS visualisation tools to demonstrate biodiversity improvements over time.
Social
Housing associations, such as Thirteen Group, use ArcGIS to better allocate their resources and help make their communities sustainable, safer and healthier.
Social
Even if the world could reduce its carbon emissions to zero tomorrow, London would still be at risk from higher tides, caused by climate changes that are already in motion. City of London Corporation has used ArcGIS to accurately model likely future changes in the Thames and propose developments that will both reduce the risk of flooding and improve the sustainability of the riverside environment for future generations
Economy
Statkraft UK, are using ArcGIS to accelerate the transition to clean energy and facilitate the UK Government’s net zero ambitions.
Bringing it all together
Nespresso uses Esri technology to communicate its sustainability work to customers, a map being a far more effective tool than a report. They also use a sustainability dashboard so that stakeholders can visualise key information about the location of 100,000 farms in their supply chain.
Partly through legislation and partly through consumer pressure, organisations now face greater scrutiny and need to contribute to an economy that is prosperous but neither unfair nor harmful for the environment. A geographic approach is enabling Esri UK customers to:
Accelerate the transition to clean energy
Find optimal locations for alternative energy installations
Business Resilience
Share global threat intelligence to improve business resilience
Supply Chain
Understand and mitigate geopolitical risk in supply chains
Understand impacts on society, promote equity and help people live better, more sustainable lives. A geographic approach is enabling Esri UK customers to achieve their goals and publicise their achievements in an engaging way, promoting their mission and the integrity of their brand:
Food Security
Help decision makers balance the needs of agriculture and the environment. Enable planning more effectively to protect food security
Safer and healthier communities
Better allocate resources to help make communities sustainable, safer and healthier
Climate change mitigation
Model sea level rises and better understand risk to local communities
Monitor environmental changes and gain insight to inform new restoration programmes. Understand habitats across a landscape or estate and manage land in a more sustainable way. With the introduction of new legislation on Biodiversity Net Gain, housing and infrastructure developers are also employing a geographic approach to understand the environmental impacts of their projects.
Biodiversity Net Gain
Plan, baseline and demonstrate biodiversity improvements over time to meet Biodiversity Net Gain requirements
Carbon Offsetting
Identify opportunities for carbon offset rewilding, habitat restoration and reforestation projects
Extreme weather events
Model the future impact of climate change and coordinate response to extreme weather events
