Infosys

Carbon per million dollars of revenue. The legacy industry-standard reference (CDP, MSCI). Useful for cross-sector context, but distorted by margin — high-margin firms appear artificially efficient. Read alongside the operational and asset intensities for the full picture.

OpEx (operating expenditure) is the running cost of the business — staff, services, energy, materials. This shows how carbon-intensive operations are per million dollars of spend. Removes the margin distortion that revenue-based ratios introduce.

EVIC (Enterprise Value Including Cash) is the firm's total capital footprint — equity + debt + cash + minority interest. The EU's standard intensity measure (SFDR PAI 3) — answers: how much carbon does each million of capital deployed in this business produce?

PP&E (Property, Plant & Equipment) plus leased real-estate assets is the firm's physical infrastructure on the balance sheet. This shows the carbon intensity of that physical footprint — uses Scope 1+2+3 for consistency with the other headline intensities. Surfaces stranded-asset risk for asset-heavy firms.

Carbon per FTE (full-time-equivalent employee) — the diagnostic measure for people-leveraged businesses where headcount, not capital, drives delivery. Captures the office, energy and travel footprint per person.

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• · RE100

Infosys is the first Indian company to participate in the RE100 initiative. Has set up 14.4 MW of rooftop and ground mount solar PV panels plus a 40 MW captive solar power plant at Sira, Karnataka — totalling 60 MW installed solar capacity. Also procures green energy via third-party power purchase agreements (PPAs) and uses green tariff mechanisms for C&I consumers in Hyderabad and Bhubaneshwar. As a result, 57.9% of electricity for India operations comes from renewables. Target: 75% renewable energy globally by 2030.

Infosys offsets unavoidable emissions through grassroots social development projects in rural India. Since 2016, implemented 8 efficient cookstove projects, 4 biogas projects, plus rural electrification and integrated community projects. Over 240,000 rural families continue to benefit. These are avoidance-based community offsets rather than durable carbon removals (DAC/BECCS/biochar).

• Energy efficiency in green-certified buildings + Command Center monitoring

  Buildings are the primary energy consumers. Infosys has 28.9 mn sq.ft. with the highest level of green certification and monitors 35 mn sq.ft. of office space through its Command Center which schedules 'auto-pilot operations' using built-in intelligence. Focus areas: lighting, air-conditioning, automation, UPS, building façade, data centers and server rooms. Energy intensity reduced from 13.0 to 10.96 MWh/US$ mn revenue.

• Scope 2: low-EPI new buildings + retrofit existing + renewable sourcing

  Scope 2 strategy: design and build or lease new offices with low Energy Performance Index (EPI), retrofit old buildings to improve EPI, and source renewable power. Combined with energy efficiency, achieved 49.92% reduction in Scope 1+2 GHG emissions over the BAU scenario.

• Scope 1: DG set efficiency, HVAC fugitive emissions, EV transition

  Scope 1 levers include better operational efficiency of Diesel Generator sets, better management of fugitive emissions from HVAC units, and transition to Electric Vehicles (EVs) for company-owned vehicles.

• Employee commute decarbonisation (EV cabs, carpooling, buses)

  Provision of buses for mass transport, promotion of carpooling, EV cabs (over 1,12,000 km traveled using EV cabs), and ~741 EV charging points installed at campuses. Promotes low/zero-emission commute modes among employees.

• Business travel reduction

  High-quality video conferencing facilities, carbon footprint alerts integrated into travel booking, and EV cabs to optimize business travel emissions. FY22 business travel emissions were 19,695 tCO2e.

• Energy efficiency, green buildings & smart automation

  Buildings are our largest source of energy use. We pursue retrofits to lighting, HVAC, UPS, façade, data centers; 28.61 mn sq. ft. have highest-rated green building certification (LEED Platinum / IGBC); 35 mn sq. ft. covered by smart automation BMS. Over 15 mn sq. ft. retrofitted under fresh-air program. Energy intensity reduced from 22.4 to 10.57 MWh/US$ mn from FY20 to FY22.

• Hybrid working model to reduce commute & office emissions

  The Infosys Hybrid working model toggles between work modes to reduce commute and office energy footprint while keeping productivity. 97% of employees leveraged remote/flexible work options in FY22.

• Remote work / business travel reduction

  96.5% of workforce working remotely in FY21. Enabling WFH reduced overall Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions by ~46% (for emission categories within carbon neutrality boundary). Business travel emissions only 8,068 tCO2e (2.7% of total) and employee commute 4,717 tCO2e (1.6%) in FY21 — though WFH added 64,634 tCO2e (22.1%).

• Building energy efficiency & green-building standards

  Over 26 mn Sq.ft of workspace accorded highest level of green building certification. In FY21 implemented 15+ energy efficiency projects across HVAC and lighting (e.g. Pune campus 9,000 CFL→LED retrofit saving ~0.8 mn kWh/yr; R-22 refrigerant phase-out saving 1.18 mn kWh/yr). Smart automation deployed across 30 mn Sq.ft. Electricity intensity dropped from 23.6 to 13.0 MWh/US$ mn revenue between FY19 and FY21.

• Capital goods: life-cycle approach + supplier ESG

  Adopting a life cycle approach (LCA) for capital goods and buildings to consider upstream/downstream emissions. Building LCA used to compare alternative materials and construction tech. Driving climate action across supply chain — committed to ESG assessments for top 100 suppliers; 46 completed to date.

• Scope 3 employee commuting: hybrid work + EVs + carpooling

  Scope 3 strategy includes hybrid working model (~75% of employees leverage remote working), promoting EVs among employees, promoting carpooling, public transport, and low to zero-emission modes of commute. Reduced absolute Scope 3 emissions by 50.15% over the 2020 baseline.

• Business travel optimization

  Business travel is being actively optimized as part of Scope 3 reduction strategy. Major events organized by Infosys in 2023 made carbon neutral with detailed travel emissions calculated and compensated by Infosys carbon credits.

• Green data centers (PUE 1.67 weighted avg)

  Data centers account for ~10% of global power consumption. We targeted PUE <1.12 (vs global avg 1.8); achieved weighted-average PUE of 1.67 across India sites (range 1.35-2.76). Through high-density virtualization 70+ racks released; chilled-water in-row cooling with hot/cold aisle containment, passive cooling, smart PDU and BMS deployed.

• Supply chain / capital goods ESG engagement

  Capital goods is the largest single scope-3 category at Infosys (66,558 tCO2e in FY22). We initiated an ESG assessment of our top 25 suppliers (40% covered) and launched a broader responsible supply chain assessment covering top 100 suppliers, addressing governance, ethics, labor, H&S and environment per Infosys SCoC.

• Responsible supply chain & Supplier Code of Conduct

  1,587 suppliers assessed for social and environmental impact in FY21; 248 identified as having significant impact and reviewed; one vendor terminated. 71% of spend is local (India). All key suppliers sign Supplier Code of Conduct covering ABAC, human rights and sustainability. ESG due diligence performed on all new suppliers via third-party tool.

• Client low-carbon transition (Sustainability Practice Unit)

  Set up Sustainability Practice Unit in 2020. Completed 20+ projects in FY21 facilitating client decarbonisation across CCUS, energy storage, renewables, energy efficiency, brownfield modernization, clean energy generation/trading and electric mobility. Signed MoU with bp to develop integrated energy-as-a-service platform piloted at Pune campus.