The emerging challenge of measuring AI's corporate environmental footprint AI looks digital. Its footprint is not. Every AI system ultimately depends on physical infrastructure: servers, accelerators, networking equipment, data centers, cooling systems and, above all, electricity. As companies rapidly integrate AI into customer service, software development, analytics, productivity tools and enterprise applications, a new sustainability question is emerging: How much environm

Group Picture - CSO Roundtable Bangalore For years, the sustainability conversation has focused on awareness, commitments, disclosures and ambitious Net Zero targets. But as businesses move deeper into the climate transition, a different challenge is becoming increasingly visible: implementation. At the IICSR–NAB CSO Roundtable 2026 in Bengaluru, sustainability leaders, corporate representatives, technology companies, climate-tech entrepreneurs, consultants, NGOs, educators a

For years, net zero was presented as an environmental aspiration—a distant target to be pursued when economic conditions were favourable. That framing is no longer credible. Today, climate change is disrupting cities, destroying infrastructure, destabilising food and water systems, increasing insurance losses and exposing businesses to risks that conventional financial planning was never designed to manage. The question facing governments and companies is no longer whether th