Fastly unveils emissions dashboard for ANZ firms’ compliance

Fastly has launched a sustainability dashboard for Australian and New Zealand customers to help them comply with supply chain emissions reporting regulations.

The new dashboard allows users to access and analyse data relating to carbon hotspots, generate exportable reports for annual disclosures, and automate the integration of emissions data into their existing business workflows.

Sustainability focus

Organisations across Australia and New Zealand face increasing pressure to address sustainability as a core element of long-term business strategy. Regulatory requirements now demand greater transparency around emissions, with supply chain data forming a critical element in overall sustainability performance. Businesses are required not only to collect this information but also to provide robust, traceable data in reports for stakeholders and authorities.

According to Fastly, the introduction of the dashboard is timely given that sustainability remains essential to long-term value creation, despite evolving geopolitical and economic challenges. Companies must demonstrate integration of environmental, social and ethical considerations to maintain eligibility in investment processes, hold customer loyalty, and attract or retain employees. Regulatory reporting is also increasingly mandatory, with the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme setting compliance baselines for enterprises with consolidated revenues of at least AUD $50 million, more than 100 employees, or consolidated assets of AUD $25 million or more.

Granular data and traceability

The Fastly dashboard provides detailed, up-to-date data on power use, renewable energy coverage, and carbon emissions associated with customers' activity across Fastly's edge platform. Details are also included on the electricity consumed by the data centres hosting Fastly's equipment, offering a broader perspective on the total emissions footprint for enterprise users' digital operations.

All metrics reported by the dashboard use a published methodology aligned with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, enabling users to demonstrate compliance with universal standards. This traceability seeks to facilitate both internal management and external disclosures to regulators and stakeholders.

The data is refreshed daily and mapped directly to each enterprise's use of the platform. According to Fastly, this arrangement is intended to make it easier for organisations to "spot carbon hotspots quickly and identify steps to optimise," as well as track usage changes in near real-time and link emissions information with their current observability tools for an integrated understanding of resource use.

Dashboard functions

The sustainability dashboard features daily updated data, offering "near real-time" visibility into the relationship between business activity and associated emissions, in contrast to annual review cycles. Users can segment data by timeframe, region or product area-such as Delivery, Compute and Shared-giving enterprises flexibility to focus on specific sources or business units.

For integration, Fastly's dashboard offers both CSV report exports and an API-based mechanism to feed emissions data directly into existing workflows and observability platforms, accommodating diverse business systems and user needs.

Regional analysis is another core feature, permitting breakdowns by country of electricity consumption and market-based emissions. Country-level perspectives help organisations pinpoint areas of higher-emission ("dirtier") traffic and enable them to consider changes such as improving caching strategies to reduce reliance on regions with greater dependence on fossil fuels. The dashboard also supplies renewable coverage percentages, supporting customers in monitoring how much of their processing is powered by clean energy.

Customer and company perspective

"At Fastly, we've always believed that a better internet is also a more sustainable one," says Derek Rast, Area Vice President, Australia and New Zealand at Fastly. "The sustainability dashboard commitment is a crucial step for our valued customers and the right thing to do from an environmental perspective for building a more sustainable future for the internet and for everyone who relies on it. Fastly's Sustainability dashboard ties emissions data directly to your Fastly workloads and with that visibility, users can finally make data-driven decisions about how to optimise for both performance and sustainability."

Fastly stated that the dashboard aims to save time for reporting teams and help companies meet stakeholder expectations for clarity and credibility in their climate reporting, particularly as scrutiny around such disclosures continues to increase across the commercial landscape.