The Sustainability Data Sovereignty Governance Solution is designed to help organisations manage and utilise sustainability data in compliance with Australian data sovereignty laws while achieving environmental goals. As sustainability initiatives increasingly rely on data collection, analysis, and reporting, organisations need to ensure that their sustainability data is stored, processed, and accessed in ways that comply with local regulations. This offering helps businesses control the lifecycle of sustainability-related data, ensuring it remains within Australian jurisdictions while contributing to their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals.

Versent’s solution integrates AWS services with data governance policies to provide a secure, compliant platform for managing sustainability data, including carbon emissions tracking, energy usage monitoring, and environmental impact assessments. By embedding data sovereignty into sustainability programs, this framework enables organizations to meet legal requirements, enhance transparency, and optimise sustainability initiatives without compromising data security or compliance.

Highlights:

• Data Residency and Compliance: Ensure sustainability data is stored and processed within Australian borders in accordance with local regulations.

• Sustainable Data Management: Tools to manage and govern the collection, storage, and analysis of sustainability data for transparency and accountability.

• ESG Reporting and Compliance: Integration of automated reporting tools that align sustainability initiatives with compliance requirements and corporate ESG goals.

• Secure Data Analytics: Implement secure data analytics pipelines for sustainability metrics, carbon tracking, and environmental performance, ensuring compliance with sovereignty and sustainability objectives.

• Data Privacy and Sovereignty: Ensure that sensitive sustainability data, such as operational and environmental data, remains protected and adheres to Australian data privacy laws.

Deliverables: • Sustainability Data Sovereignty Policies: A comprehensive set of data governance policies that ensure compliance with data sovereignty laws in sustainability projects.

• ESG Data Management Platform: Implementation of a platform for collecting, managing, and analyzing sustainability and ESG data while ensuring sovereignty compliance.

• Data Residency and Access Control: Configure AWS services to enforce data residency and restrict access to authorised Australian personnel and systems.

• Automated Sustainability Reporting: Tools and integrations to automate sustainability data reporting for compliance, including alignment with frameworks such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Australian environmental laws.

• Carbon Footprint Tracking: Solutions for monitoring and reducing carbon emissions across cloud operations, ensuring data from these systems is securely stored within Australia.

• Sustainable Cloud Optimisation: Recommendations and tools to optimise AWS cloud usage for sustainability, reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions while maintaining compliance with data residency and privacy regulations.

• Ongoing Compliance Audits and Monitoring: Continuous monitoring of sustainability data flows to ensure compliance with data sovereignty laws, along with periodic audit reports.