Environmental Policy
We measure what we cost the planet.
Measured, managed, reduced. Technology that moves Africa forward shouldn't cost the Earth — so we state what we operate, estimate what it emits, and hold ourselves to dated targets.
Last reviewed: August 2026
This policy applies to all Cloud23 operations globally: our Sandton (Illovo) office, delivery centres in Hyderabad and Romania, our remote workforce, our two-vehicle pool, business travel, and the IT estate supporting ~250–300 employees and contractors.
Reported per the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard (operational control).
What we run
Operational inventory
| Premises | 1 leased office (Illovo, Sandton) plus serviced space in Hyderabad and Romania. Hybrid-first — the SA grid (~1.0 kgCO₂e/kWh) dominates our Scope 2. |
|---|---|
| Vehicles | 2 company vehicles — our only direct combustion source. |
| IT estate | ~300 managed laptops on a 4-year refresh cycle. No owned data centres: 100% cloud-hosted. |
| Workforce | ~250–300 people across South Africa, India, Romania and remote. |
| Business travel | 10–50 return flights a year across the SA–India–Europe delivery corridor — our largest discretionary emission. |
The baseline
Estimated emissions
220–295
tCO₂e total · FY2025/26 (estimated)
0.8–1.1
tCO₂e per person
Professional-services norm: 1.5–3.5
- Scope 1 — vehicles5 tCO₂eTwo company vehicles, ~20,000 km each.
- Scope 2 — office electricity70–100 tCO₂eSA grid intensity dominates despite hybrid occupancy.
- Scope 3 — commuting110–140 tCO₂eHybrid model, ~2 office days a week. Our largest line.
- Scope 3 — flights20–30 tCO₂eSA domestic plus the SA–India–Europe corridor.
- Scope 3 — devices15–20 tCO₂eEmbodied carbon of ~75 devices refreshed a year.
These figures are estimates pending our first verified inventory (FY2026/27). We publish them anyway — a rough number owned beats a precise number promised.
What we will do
Seven commitments
- By end FY2026/27
Verified baseline
First measured (not estimated) GHG inventory
- ≤1.0 by FY2027/28, then −5% p.a.
Emissions intensity
tCO₂e per FTE
- Grow slower than revenue
Flights
Video-first, economy default, consolidated trips
- 100% — zero to landfill
E-waste
Devices redeployed, donated or certified-recycled
- 100% of new decisions from 2026
Premises
Green-rated criteria in every lease decision
- 100% of new cloud work
Cloud advisory
Carbon-aware architecture note per engagement
- Maintained at 100%
Paperless
Digital contracting, delivery and sign-off
Our work lowers our clients' footprint too
Migrating enterprise workloads to hyperscale cloud typically cuts their energy footprint: hyperscale data centres run at PUE ~1.1–1.2 versus ~1.5–2.0 for typical enterprise facilities, with far higher renewable procurement. We treat that as part of our impact — advising on lower-carbon regions and right-sized, serverless architectures where latency and regulation allow.
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