5.3 Inform, raise awareness, and train for sustainability

Materials: Medium
Energy: Medium
Water: Medium
Emissions: Medium

Drive sustainability awareness both externally and internally with active encouragement and routine training offered where necessary.

Inform and aware: Human-testable
Inform and deliver training to all affected parties, including product teams, colleagues, and organizational decision-makers – both managers and clients – in both general and digital climate literacy, as well as your own sustainable technology policies.
Routine training: Human-testable
Provide active and routine training where possible to develop, establish, and refresh skills relating to sustainability. This can be delivered as in-house training, courses, workshops, events, webinars, meetups, or other ongoing or on-demand methods that support your team in achieving sustainability objectives.
Active participation: Machine-testable
Encourage participants to reduce their environmental impact. Share climate and sustainable initiatives and ideas. Provide resources on sustainable design, best practices, and concepts to assist them.

Environment
Keeping your team informed and educated may promote systemic change in the way they build, the way they manage their work and technical infrastructure, and even the way they do business or live their day-to-day lives – even outside the workplace.
Operations
Publishing clear sustainability goals and sharing resources encourages organizational affected parties to examine their own current status quo and make their own progress.