Sustainability
Harnessing the power of Akamai Cloud to create a sustainable and equitable future for the world.
We have a big challenge ahead
The IPCC warned that it is “now or never” to stave off a climate disaster by limiting global warming to below 1.5°C. As a leader of the modern internet, Akamai plays an enormous role in the climate transition. We are working across the industry to pioneer ways to move beyond the megawatt-hour and focus on the emissions impact of our electricity consumption and generation. Across our Sustainability microsite, we detail our approach, actions, and progress toward our 2030 goals.
Our 2030 goals
As a leader in the internet ecosystem, Akamai takes responsibility in reducing environmental impacts by pursuing five 2030 goals across
Akamai Cloud.
Understand your emissions impact using Akamai
We recognize that our customers share our vision of reducing emissions, including those generated by their IT suppliers. That’s why we created the customer Carbon Calculator, an emissions measurement approach based on the individual customer’s use of Akamai Cloud. Integrated into the Akamai Control Center, the Carbon Calculator reports the emissions associated with a specific subset of customer traffic, allowing customers to understand Akamai’s emissions reduction efforts. Check out our innovative approach to understanding your impact when using Akamai Cloud.
Customers can see at a glance the total bytes delivered and the calculated emissions from this traffic. The report also provides a view of emissions by country, color-coded by the volume of bytes and emissions.
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Our global environmental management system
Our EMS is designed to reduce our environmental impact and manage risks across our entire value chain. We use these tools daily for tracking, monitoring, measuring, and reporting to ensure we meet all aspects of the ISO 14001 standard and achieve our 2030 goals.
Partnerships contributing toward our goals
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Please see the Reports and Disclosure page of our microsite.
Akamai supports the Paris Agreement to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions substantially. Limiting the global temperature increase in this century to 2°C, while pursuing efforts to limit the rise even further to 1.5°C, is essential. To further our decarbonization commitments, we have aligned our program with the Science Based Targets initiative to set our emission reduction in line with the Paris Agreement and continually evolving climate science. Please see the Science-Based Targets page of our microsite for more information.
Please refer to the Reports and Disclosure page of our Sustainability microsite, and our ESG page for details on our transparency and process.
Please see the Akamai Cloud Computing page of our Sustainability microsite for details.
Learn more about our program on our ESG page; details regarding our corporate governance can be found on our Corporate Governance page.
Akamai works with our recycling partners to provide critical lifecycle management services (LMS) for our global operations. The LMS process offers opportunities to reuse and redeploy hardware assets that are still useful, and properly decommission and recycle those that are at the end of their useful life.
Implementing LMS across Akamai Connected Cloud continues to help us extend the useful life of our hardware assets and has contributed to increased efficiencies across our operational footprint.
Contact Akamai Sustainability
Working in partnership, we can create a more sustainable future. To contact our team, please indicate your sustainability-focused interest or request in the comment box.
We can help you to:
- Get engaged with our sales team to learn more about Akamai’s sustainability program
- Set up a meeting with the sustainability and/or ESG team
- Learn more about the Akamai Carbon Calculator
- Find out more about our best practices, procedures, and long-term goals
- Get connected and engaged with our industry partners