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What is the Open FootprintTM Forum?

Currently, the lack of standards for storing, defining, FORUM and accessing Green House Gasses (GHG) scope data, including CO2 and carbon, has major business implications. For example, in a supply chain with multiple participating companies, when the recipient of the supply Become a Member chain wants to calculate the total carbon footprint of an Get Involved and Gain Influence end product, it is virtually impossible since each supply in Defining Open Standards and chain participant has stored data using its own standards. Certifications Having individual standards is wasteful. The supply chain is just one example; however, there are several other Being a Member of The Open examples where it makes no business sense to have Group gives organizations early individual standards for GHG data. access to the latest information

and developments regarding open The Open Footprint Forum provides an environment for standards and best practices, and access to one set of standards across ALL INDUSTRIES. enables them to participate in our (Spanning all industries is very important to the supply highly influential Forums and Work chain.) For that, we deliver: Groups. We provide a collaborative, vendor-neutral environment where • One flexible data platform member representatives can: • One set of data definitions • One set of metadata definitions • Network with a world-class • One API (Application Program Interface) to access the community of peers, experts, and data industry leaders • Have early access to information Having implemented a copy of the Open Footprint Data on industry developments Platform, each company will use the same definitions, • Gain insight for future decisions which means the carbon values can be added together. from both major customers and No time or money is wasted, plus we can focus our time technology suppliers and effort on applications that make use of the data. This • Influence outcomes that benefit creates business value, where we can really differentiate their organizations and innovate. • Grow professionally and enhance their credibility in the industry • Receive education in best practices

© 2021 The Open Group. All rights reserved. The Open Footprint initiative is more than a set of The Open Footprint Forum welcomes all persons standards. It is also: interested in joining the Forum, including but not limited to Business, Sustainability, and IT Subject • Reference Architecture Matter Experts (SMEs). • An Open Source-based Reference Implementation Why Join?

The Forum will deliver a near real-time By joining the Open Footprint Forum, your implementation that companies can implement organization will: in their own environment (Cloud/On-Premise), resulting in a fully operational setup. • Be seen as a leader in the development of open, interoperable environmental footprint The Open Footprint Forum’s first deliverable is measurement standards and solutions Minimal Viable Product One (MVP1), scheduled for benefitting all companies and society at large launch in Q1 2021. MVP1 will cover GHG Scope • Help to drive down the cost of measuring and 1 and Scope 2; the Open Footprint Data Platform; managing environmental footprint, for your the Open Footprint Reference Architecture; and organization and for your supply chain the Open Source Reference Implementation. • Ensure that the standards and data platform that will emerge from the Open Footprint After MVP1, the Forum will begin work on MVP2, initiative will meet your organization’s needs focusing on GHG Scope 3 and support for • Gain early access to the emerging standard Calculations. Once the Forum has addressed and data platform GHG, we will then focus on non-GHG, such as • Become part of the environmental footprint Water, Landfill, etc. data measurement ecosystem

In parallel, the Open Footprint Forum is in contact Without the Open Footprint Forum, organizations with various reporting bodies (such as SASB, would resort to acquiring or building incompatible WEF, GRI, etc.) to explore how we can better and expensive custom solutions that don’t align our standards with their reporting standards. interoperate throughout their supply chains. In addition, we are connecting with WBCSD to understand how we can work together.

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The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral Please contact Heidi Karlsson consortium, whose vision of Boundaryless Information Flow™ ([email protected]), Forum Director of will enable access to integrated information within and The Open Footprint Forum, for more information. between enterprises based on open standards and global interoperability. The Open Group works with customers, suppliers, consortia, and other standards bodies. Its role is ArchiMate, DirecNet, Making Standards Work, Open O logo, Open O and Check Certification to capture, understand, and address current and emerging logo, Platform 3.0, The Open Group, TOGAF, UNIX, UNIXWARE, and the Open Brand X logo are registered trademarks and Boundaryless Information Flow, Build with Integrity Buy with Confidence, requirements, establish policies, and share best practices; to Commercial Aviation Reference Architecture, Dependability Through Assuredness, Digital Practitioner facilitate interoperability, develop consensus, and evolve and Body of Knowledge, DPBoK, EMMM, FACE, the FACE logo, FHIM Profile Builder, the FHIM logo, FPB, Future Airborne Capability Environment, IT4IT, the IT4IT logo, O-AA, O-DEF, O-HERA, O-PAS, integrate specifications and open source technologies; to offer Open Agile Architecture, Open FAIR, Open Footprint, Open Process Automation, Open Subsurface a comprehensive set of services to enhance the operational Data Universe, Open Trusted Technology Provider, OSDU, Sensor Integration Simplified, SOSA, and efficiency of consortia; and to operate the industry's premier the SOSA logo are trademarks of The Open Group. certification service.

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