Infosys cuts carbon emissions by nearly half in FY21

Infosys reduced its overall carbon emissions by 46% in the year ended March 31, as most of its employees worked remotely due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

India’s second largest IT services provider reported a 46.12% reduction in carbon emissions from fuel and global energy consumption, while emissions from sources such as business travel, employee commute and capital goods dropped by 84.5%, it said in its latest Environment, Social and Governance Report.

“Enabling work from home effectively has helped bring down our overall Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions by about 46%, while paving the way for a hybrid workplace of the future,” the ESG Report 2020-21 said.


Infosys said 96.5% of its employees were working remotely.

The Bengaluru-based company, whose overall carbon emissions for FY21 stood at 290,865 tonnes, attributed 41.4% of this to capital goods and 23.5% to global energy consumption, while work-from-home accounted for the third largest chunk at 22.1%.

Infosys said it remained carbon neutral in FY21, after having achieved the same in the previous year as well.

In FY21, 50% of its electricity consumption was from renewable energy sources, up from 44% in its previous sustainability report.

“...we remain carbon neutral in fiscal 2021,” Infosys CEO Salil Parekh said.

“More recently, we also formed an Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) Committee of the Board to guide the Board in discharging its oversight responsibility on matters related to organization wide ESG initiatives…,” Parekh added.

Infosys said in the ESG report that 1.2 million students from Indian engineering colleges had now registered on its digital skilling platform InfyTQ, which offers technical and professional skill training to help students become industry-ready upon graduation.

Its talent reskilling platform, Infosys Wingspan, had 2.02 million users, including 400,000 employees of clients, in FY21.

These programmes are in line with Infosys’ ambition to impart digital skills to over 10 million people, including employees, students, clients’ workforce, teachers and communities by 2025.