Communities face connected pressures
Governments, organizations and communities face connected pressures: energy costs, resource scarcity, infrastructure constraints, climate exposure, supply-chain inefficiency, environmental degradation, waste, emissions, and uneven access to the benefits created by sustainability investments.
Sustainability activity is often fragmented. A business may pursue energy efficiency without linking savings to its supply chain, its products' end of life, community benefits or ecosystem effects. A community initiative may generate participation and local knowledge without a durable means of recording contributions, recognizing value or sharing benefits. Public institutions may have policy objectives and datasets, yet lack a common operational layer that connects projects, measured outcomes, participating organizations and end users.
ELAS-3-CITY is proposed as a practical digital operating model through which the principles of the United Nations 10YFP — lifecycle approaches and sustainable supply chains — can be applied locally, organizationally and across community ecosystems.
001Elasticity first
Adaptive response to resource constraints and incentives.
002Lifecycle approach
Products, services, facilities, operations and end-of-life.
003Value beyond cash
Measure environmental, social and utility value, not only finance.
004Transparency first
Governed, auditable recognition and circulation of verified value.
005Community-owned benefits
Value circulates back to the people and communities that help create it.
What is ELAS-3-CITY?
ELAS-3-CITY is a sustainability and ecosystem-value platform that supports the measurement and management of savings, utility and engagement outcomes across an interconnected participant ecosystem — across supply chain, compute and energy.
The detailed proposed capabilities, operating model, control architecture and implementation requirements are restricted to the signed-recipient section of this dossier. ELAS-3-CITY is therefore introduced here only at concept level.