Top Sustainability and ESG Metrics to Track Across the IT Asset Lifecycle
Most IT teams are asked for ESG metrics for the first time when an auditor, a customer questionnaire, or a regulator wants a number nobody has ever calculated. This guide sets out what to track across the full IT asset lifecycle — procurement, deployment, operation, utilisation, and disposition — what each metric actually measures, where the data comes from, and which disclosure it feeds. It covers the environmental, social, and governance columns rather than treating ESG as a synonym for carbon, explains why embodied carbon and asset lifespan carry far more leverage than endpoint energy, and is blunt about the widely reported figures that will not survive assurance, including the avoided-emissions credit on your disposition certificate.
