{"id":7222,"date":"2021-10-07T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7222"},"modified":"2023-02-06T19:54:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T00:54:59","slug":"sustainability-bond","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/en\/news\/sustainability-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"Autodesk\u2019s first sustainability bond aligns impact and financial strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7227\" src=\"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Construction-Glumac-Joeris-0001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Construction-Glumac-Joeris-0001.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Construction-Glumac-Joeris-0001-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Construction-Glumac-Joeris-0001-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Construction-Glumac-Joeris-0001-700x467.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/> Autodesk is in\u00a0business to\u00a0enable a better world\u00a0designed and made for all. Customers across our industries rely on Autodesk to help solve challenges big and small. This presents a profound and urgent opportunity; we can empower\u202finnovators\u202fwith technology to harness their data and unlock insights to fuel\u202finnovation and create new paths to efficiency, sustainability, and growth. Providing tools to help our customers reveal actionable insights to improve the impact of design and make decisions, at scale, is central to our sustainability efforts. To\u00a0accelerate\u00a0these\u00a0efforts, I\u2019m excited to share that we issued our first\u00a0sustainability\u00a0bond offering\u00a0totaling $1\u00a0billion\u00a0to further align Autodesk\u2019s impact strategy with our financial strategy. The proceeds from the sustainability bond will fund existing and future projects in alignment with\u00a0Autodesk\u2019s\u00a0impact strategy, which aims to advance positive environmental and social outcomes in areas most\u202fimportant\u202fto\u00a0our\u00a0business and the needs of our customers\u00a0and other stakeholders. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7229\" src=\"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ADSK-3-core-strategies-graphics-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ADSK-3-core-strategies-graphics-1.png 1000w, https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ADSK-3-core-strategies-graphics-1-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ADSK-3-core-strategies-graphics-1-700x538.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> I am\u00a0also\u00a0acutely aware that our impact starts with us.\u00a0I\u00a0believe\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0imperative for us\u00a0to\u00a0set a good example\u00a0and\u00a0I\u2019m passionate about\u00a0the\u00a0powerful\u00a0role finance can play in driving sustainability issues forward.\u00a0I\u2019m proud\u00a0that,\u00a0as of our 2021 fiscal year,\u00a0Autodesk\u00a0is\u00a0net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across our business and value chain,\u00a0enabled\u00a0through the introduction of the\u202fAutodesk Carbon Fund\u202fand an updated price on carbon. Of equal importance is our\u00a0continued\u00a0work with our customers and industries to advance a more sustainable\u00a0future.\u00a0We know that to solve the challenges we face today, we need collective action. We believe the investments\u00a0from our sustainability bond\u00a0will benefit our\u202fcustomers and\u00a0other\u00a0stakeholders,\u202fwhile accelerating our collective progress\u202ftoward\u202fAutodesk\u2019s vision of\u202fa\u00a0better\u00a0world\u00a0designed and\u00a0made\u00a0for\u00a0all.\u00a0This\u00a0sustainability\u00a0bond\u00a0enables\u00a0our investors to join us in in our efforts to address issues in alignment with key\u00a0environmental, social, and governance (ESG)\u00a0indicators and the internationally recognized UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We intend to\u00a0focus on\u00a0projects related to both environmental and social initiatives,\u00a0including: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\"><strong>Eco-Efficient products, production technologies, and processes\u2013<\/strong>Developing and improving software capabilities to deliver insights that optimize the energy, waste, and water efficiencies and resilience of building, infrastructure, and industrial projects.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\"><strong>Sustainable water and wastewater management\u2013<\/strong>Providing technology to enable more cost\u2011effective and sustainably designed water distribution networks, water collection systems, water and wastewater treatment plants, and flood protection systems.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\"><strong>Renewable energy and energy efficiency\u2013<\/strong>Advancing initiatives to build on our achievement of net-zero GHG emissions across our business and value chain, continuing to reduce the carbon footprint of our operations through efficiency and renewables.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\"><strong>Green buildings\u2013<\/strong>Developing and improving technology to support the design, construction, maintenance or refurbishment of buildings to tackle total carbon impacts of the building lifecycle.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\"><strong>Pollution prevention and control\u2013<\/strong>Supporting carbon mitigation and removal projects in the areas of GHG mitigation technologies, products, and projects focused on the built environment, GHG capture and sequestration technology projects, and carbon removal and avoidance projects.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\"><strong>Socioeconomic advancement and empowerment\u2013<\/strong>Activating initiatives to advance economic opportunity and equity for underrepresented communities, promote greater diversity and inclusion, and improve access to quality education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Autodesk\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/investors.autodesk.com\/static-files\/607edbba-3b8d-4997-b9fb-099b84f311dd\">Sustainability Financing Framework<\/a>\u00a0will guide our investments, and\u00a0we&#8217;ll report back annually on\u00a0our progress.\u00a0This is\u00a0another milestone\u00a0in our journey to design and make a better world for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autodesk is in business to enable a better world designed and made for all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":7218,"template":"","categories":[374,18,29,376,322],"adsk_tags":[410,409,437,421,443],"class_list":["post-7222","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categories-business","categories-impact","categories-our_company","categories-perspectives","categories-sustainability-2","adsk_tags-diversity-belonging","adsk_tags-energy","adsk_tags-sustainable-construction","adsk_tags-waste-reduction","adsk_tags-water"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Autodesk\u2019s first sustainability bond | Autodesk News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The new sustainability bond will accelerate Autodesk&#039;s vision of\u202fa better world designed and made for all. 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