Why Environmental Sustainability Matters to Us
Protecting the Future. In Every Sense.
Environmental sustainability matters to Arkivum because long-term preservation requires long-term responsibility. As we safeguard data for future generations, we’re committed to minimising the environmental impact of the infrastructure that supports it. Put simply: preserving the past shouldn’t come at the expense of the planet. Here we outline our plan to become one of the most environmentally friendly digital preservation solution providers.
Our Net Zero Commitment
We’re proud to announce that Arkivum has committed to reaching Net Zero across all our operations by 2040.
- We’re now publicly registered with the SME Climate Hub, reflecting our pledge to measure, report, and progressively reduce carbon emissions across all scopes from office energy and cloud-infrastructure use to business travel, commuting, procurement, and supply-chain footprint.
- Going beyond the usual Scope 1 & 2 emissions (fuel, electricity), we acknowledge the importance of Scope 3 covering upstream and downstream emissions tied to our services, our suppliers, and the entire lifecycle of the hardware and cloud infrastructure we rely upon.
This ambition is part of our broader mission: we aim to help our customers meet increasingly aggressive climate-action and environmental sustainability goals, while continuing to deliver trusted, compliant, long-term eco-friendly digital preservation.
What This Means for Our Services
Digital Preservation
By consolidating long-term digital archives in efficient, secure, and managed infrastructure, we avoid waste and duplication helping organisations reduce their ecological footprint compared with ad-hoc, duplicated storage or frequent migrations.
Cloud-Optimised Infrastructure
Our SaaS platform used globally across sectors such as research, heritage, life sciences, and corporate archives is designed to be resource-efficient, leveraging best-practice approaches to data storage, redundancy and management.
Scalable & Future-Proof
Rather than repeatedly migrating and re-storing data a process that often consumes energy, resources and generates inefficiency Arkivum provides a scalable, long-term solution that minimises the environmental cost of long-term data retention.
Our Approach
Transparency, Accountability and Continuous Improvement.
We’ll baseline our carbon emissions, and report publicly on our progress each year.
We intend to align with recognised standards including the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) for carbon accounting and reduction.
We’re committed to reviewing our procurement, travel, supplier policies and the environmental impact of our infrastructure as part of an ongoing journey.
Aligned With Our Values
At Arkivum, our core values, quality, integrity, proactive collaboration, and innovation shape how we build and deliver digital-preservation solutions and how we run the business. Environmental sustainability isn’t an add-on; it’s embedded in our decisions, processes and product design. We protect information for the long term, and we do so in ways that minimise environmental impact.
Join Us on the Journey
Whether you’re a heritage institution preserving cultural collections, a life-sciences organisation storing research data, or a company safeguarding corporate archives by choosing Arkivum, you’re partnering with a provider committed to both data longevity and environmental responsibility.