Sustainability in digital infrastructure supply chains
Course Overview
This course builds on the fundamentals of sustainability due diligence and the specific challenges facing digital infrastructure supply chains. It highlights the typical environmental and human rights challenges and provides practical strategies for action that companies can take.
About This Course
Companies with digital infrastructure and technologies from smartphones to fiber networks rely on complex global value chains that often carry significant sustainability risks.
In this course you will explore environmental risks such as greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, and e-waste, alongside common labour and human rights risks related to mining, manufacturing, assembly, and other parts of typical supply chains of digital infrastructure companies. You’ll also gain insight into how climate action, circular strategies, stakeholder engagement, and responsible procurement can help address these risks in a meaningful way.
The course combines global frameworks, sector-specific tools, and real-world examples to guide companies in creating more ethical and resilient digital value chains.
Enroll in this course if you work in or with the digital sector and want to strengthen your company’s environmental and human rights performance across its supply chain. For the best learning experience, we recommend taking this course after completing the "Sustainability Due Diligence in Supply Chains" course.
Target Group
Professionals in procurement, sustainability and product development in the digital sector seeking to mitigate supply chain risks and meet global standards.
Section 1: Introduction
- Recap on Sustainability Due Diligence
Section 2: Environmental risks in digital products, services and infrastructure supply chains
- Typical environmental risks across the supply chain
- Climate change and carbon
- Biodiversity and environmental services
- Resource efficiency and circular economy
Section 3: Typical labour and human rights risks across the supply chain
- Typical labour and human rights risks across the supply chain
- Taking action on human rights risks in your supply chain
Quiz
Certificate of attendance