SAP took home the Responsible AI Impact Award at London Climate Action Week 2025. The event drew 45,000 delegates across 700 sessions, pushing urgent climate action ahead of COP30 in Brazil.
The week centered on three main themes:
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Decarbonize and build resilience: Businesses are treating climate disruption as a core risk. SAP is helping customers turn physical climate risks into actionable data that ties adaptation investments to financial returns.
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Mobilize climate finance: London’s mayor launched a climate finance task force. SAP links sustainability data with financial and risk metrics, helping companies access green bonds and new funding by making climate disruption costs visible on balance sheets.
- Digital innovation and AI: AI is speeding up emissions forecasting, supply chain optimization, and real-time resource management via digital twins. SustainableIT.org awarded SAP for embedding ethical, human-centered AI across its business tools.
Monica Molesag, SAP’s global head of Sustainability Communications, highlighted their AI Ethics Policy grounded in UNESCO ethics standards, focusing on AI that assists, not replaces, human decisions.
Three SAP tools stood out:
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SAP Green Ledger: Posts carbon and financial data side-by-side to map climate disruption costs.
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SAP Green Token and Sustainability Footprint Management: Use AI to automate supplier emissions data and map materials to emission factors fast.
- SAP Sustainability Control Tower: AI-assisted ESG reporting with audit-ready templates and visualizations.
SAP plans to integrate Sustainability Control Tower into SAP Business Data Cloud later this year, unifying sustainability and business data on one platform.
The message: Treat ESG data like financial data, with rigor and governance. That turns climate action from a moral duty into a business necessity.
Monica Molesag stated:
London Climate Action Week 2025 made one truth unavoidable: climate leadership now hinges on trusted data and innovative technology, including human-centred AI. Across sessions, AI and unified data were repeatedly cited as the accelerants of climate progress, whether mapping Scope 3 emissions or modelling extreme weather scenarios.
By breaking down silos among sustainability, finance, procurement, and operations, SAP is enabling businesses to act faster on everything from climate disclosure to adaptation investment. When ESG data is managed like financial data — with rigor, governance, and relevance — it becomes a strategic asset.
Together, these capabilities turn the rallying cry of London Climate Action Week 2025 “from morality to materiality” into a practical playbook: embed sustainability where business happens and use responsible AI to scale impact without compromise. From emissions to adaptation to finance, the future of climate leadership is not just digital, it’s enterprise-deep.
