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09/07/2026 3:17 pm
TL;DR: Its FY25 climate work reduced Scope 2 emissions by over 13% and improved emissions intensity from 12.7 to 9.6 metric tons CO2e per million USD revenue, according to Commvault. The governance signal is that sustainability metrics are now part of operational resilience, not separate from it, while linking cloud efficiency and resilience to broader sustainability goals.
NHIMG editorial — based on content published by Commvault: climate action, resilience, and sustainability progress
By the numbers:
- Scope 2 emissions dropped by over 13% in FY25, according to Commvault.
- Emissions intensity fell from 12.7 to 9.6 metric tons CO2e per million USD revenue, according to Commvault.
Questions worth separating out
Q: Why should security teams care about sustainability governance?
A: Security teams should care because sustainability governance often reveals whether an organisation can measure, own, and reduce operational waste across critical systems.
Q: How does workload efficiency affect governance quality?
A: Workload efficiency affects governance quality by reducing the number of unnecessary systems, dependencies, and exceptions that teams must monitor.
Q: What does formal climate disclosure tell practitioners about accountability?
A: Formal climate disclosure tells practitioners that governance becomes credible only when ownership, measurement, and reporting are explicit.
Practitioner guidance
- Map efficiency metrics to governance ownership Tie emissions intensity, storage usage, and workload efficiency to named owners in the same way you would assign accountability for IAM or NHI controls.
- Review infrastructure sprawl as a control issue Identify duplicated storage, redundant workloads, and underused services that increase both operational cost and governance complexity.
- Align resilience reporting with formal disclosure discipline If your organisation already reports against a framework such as TCFD, bring security and platform governance teams into the same reporting cadence so operational claims can be validated consistently.
What's in the full article
Commvault's full article covers the sustainability and climate-governance detail this post intentionally leaves for the source:
- The specific FY25 sustainability metrics and the operational changes behind them.
- The discussion of LEED-certified headquarters features and facilities choices.
- The collaboration context around the Net Zero Institute and climate accountability.
- The article's own framing of how data efficiency supports resilience outcomes.
👉 Read Commvault's climate action post on data resilience and sustainability →
Climate resilience and data operations: what IAM teams should notice?
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09/07/2026 3:35 pm
Climate resilience is becoming an operational governance discipline, not a branding exercise. The article ties emissions reduction to data-centre efficiency, cloud optimisation, and disclosure accountability rather than to isolated environmental gestures. That matters because the same discipline that reduces operational waste also strengthens control visibility across infrastructure, IAM, and workload management. Practitioners should treat sustainability metrics as part of broader resilience governance, not as a separate reporting lane.
A few things that frame the scale:
- Organisations maintain an average of 6 distinct secrets manager instances, according to The State of Secrets in AppSec.
- Only 44% of developers are reported to follow security best practices for secrets management, according to The State of Secrets in AppSec.
A question worth separating out:
Q: How can organisations connect resilience and resource stewardship?
A: Organisations can connect resilience and resource stewardship by treating waste reduction, workload optimisation, and reporting discipline as one operating model. If fewer resources are consumed to deliver the same service, the environment is usually easier to manage, and the governance posture is easier to defend.
👉 Read our full editorial: Climate resilience in data operations is becoming a governance issue
