Accenture and Salesforce Team Up with Mastercard to Deepen its Sustainability Efforts
September 17 2021 - 7:59AM
Business Wire
Expanding its commitment to
sustainability, Mastercard is one of the first global
companies to use Salesforce Sustainability Cloud to track
and analyze carbon emissions of its value chain
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) are enhancing
Mastercard’s ability to measure and analyze carbon emissions across
its value chain. By using Salesforce Sustainability Cloud,
Mastercard is gaining comprehensive insights around the emissions
of its suppliers, helping it to work more effectively with the
organizations in its partner network to take meaningful climate
action.
Accenture collaborated with Mastercard to assess its supplier
landscape and deliver Sustainability Cloud, a platform that
provides robust capabilities to track, analyze and take action on
supplier-level carbon emissions data. Having a view of the carbon
footprint of its supply chain – coupled with automated dashboards
that provide real-time, actionable insights – will help Mastercard
achieve its Science Based Target to reduce absolute Scope 3
greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2025 from a 2016 baseline.
“As Mastercard continues to build a more sustainable digital
economy, we know that fostering collective climate action, in
partnership with our suppliers, is key to our success,” said
Kristina Kloberdanz, chief sustainability officer, Mastercard.
“Working with Accenture and Salesforce to further enhance our
visibility into carbon emissions data is a critical step in
decarbonizing our partner network and meeting our broader net zero
targets.”
As one of the first global companies to use Sustainability Cloud
to analyze the carbon footprint of its supply chain, Mastercard
helped innovate product functionality, such as how Accenture
calculates supplier emissions at scale in an innovative new way
through the tool.
Peter Lacy, chief responsibility officer and global
sustainability services lead at Accenture, said, “Leading companies
like Mastercard recognize that sustainability is a business
imperative that must be embedded across its business to drive
impact for all stakeholders, including its customers. Drawing on
our extensive sustainability services and technology experience, we
are proud to have teamed with Salesforce to help Mastercard
accelerate progress toward its sustainability goals.”
“We’re in a climate emergency and need every business to take
bold climate action,” said Suzanne DiBianca, chief impact officer
and EVP of corporate relations at Salesforce. “Mastercard is
mobilizing the full scale of its business, technology and partners
to inspire action. It’s been an honor partnering with Accenture and
Mastercard on their sustainability journey, and leveraging
Salesforce Sustainability Cloud to prioritize data-driven climate
action to help achieve impactful change at scale.”
The collaboration with Mastercard builds on Salesforce and
Accenture’s expanded alliance which combines Accenture’s
Sustainability Services, Salesforce Sustainability Cloud, and
Salesforce Customer 360 to help companies embed sustainability into
their business, meet growing customer and stakeholder expectations,
and contribute to advancing the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals.
About Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services company with leading
capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched
experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries,
we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and
Operations services — all powered by the world’s largest network of
Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 569,000
people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity
every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace
the power of change to create value and shared success for our
clients, people, shareholders, partners, and communities. Visit us
at www.accenture.com.
About Salesforce
Salesforce, the global CRM leader, empowers companies of every
size and industry to digitally transform and create a 360° view of
their customers. For more information about Salesforce (NYSE: CRM),
visit: www.salesforce.com.
About Mastercard, www.mastercard.com
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments
industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital
economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions
safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks,
partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help
individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses
realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ,
drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our
company. With connections across more than 210 countries and
territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks
priceless possibilities for all.
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Hannah Unkefer Accenture 206-839-2172
hannah.m.unkefer@accenture.com
Kalynn Sharum Salesforce 415-309-2054 ksharum@salesforce.com
Erin Goodhand Mastercard 646-659-8136
erin.goodhand@mastercard.com
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