What It Takes to Fix a $3 Trillion Problem

Introducing IFS Zero – Agentic Emissions Operating System built for asset-intensive industries

Somewhere in your organization right now, someone is reconciling an emissions spreadsheet. They’re pulling numbers from five systems, chasing down a facilities manager for a meter reading, and hoping the figure they land on is close enough to stand behind.

It isn’t. And the planet can’t afford it.

The World Economic Forum put a number to this problem last month: between $1 trillion and $3 trillion lost to global GDP every year; direct economic damage from badly maintained, defective, and outdated equipment and infrastructure. The carbon cost is equivalent to the total annual emissions of China.

This isn’t a requirement of our standard of living. It is a failure of operational intelligence.

The failure starts with data. Manual collection consumes 60–70% of the reporting cycle. By the time your sustainability team has a number, it’s stale, disconnected from the operations it’s supposed to describe, and impossible to fully assure.

You can’t get to zero on estimates.

IFS Zero changes that.

Every emissions figure linked back to its operational source; meter, sensor, invoice, or system. Fully traceable. Audit-ready from day one.

One Platform. One Number. Audit-Ready. Action-Ready.

IFS Zero is an agentic emissions operating system built for the industries that make, service, and power our world including energy, oil and gas, manufacturing, mining, aerospace, transport. It reads directly from the systems that create emissions: your facilities, your equipment, your production lines, your service operations, your supply chain. Scope 1, 2, and 3. Measured from the source. Disclosed with full traceability.

It doesn’t sit alongside your operations. It sits inside them.

Where most platforms stop at compliance reporting, IFS Zero closes the intelligence loop. AI agents collect, validate, and map emissions data automatically; eliminating the spreadsheet challenge that consumes most sustainability teams’ time. An advanced calculation engine, built on years of IP across emissions, flaring, water, and waste, automatically matches activity data to the right methodology. And because IFS Zero connects directly to data already inside IFS Cloud, there’s no third-party extraction, no reconciliation, no waiting until quarter-end to discover you’ve missed your target.

Three Capabilities. One Closed Loop. 

Measure 

Near real-time carbon intelligence connects operational data to emission sources. Scope 1, 2, and 3 mapped and categorised automatically. Not quarterly estimates but live numbers from the systems that created them. 

Disclose 

Full audit trails, aligned to GHG Protocol. Supply chain emissions visibility that earns trust with investors, regulators, and customers simultaneously. Compliance without slowing operations that is built in, not bolted on. 

Optimise 

Sustainability embedded in the same system as cost and throughput. Not just what happened but what to do next. Climate pressure converted into measurable margin improvement.

The Mandate is Now. 

The World Economic Forum calls for a pivot from a disposable, build-new economy to a circular model of maintaining better — and argues that nearly a third of required global emissions reductions are achievable today, without waiting for unproven technologies. The data exists inside your operations. The question is whether you can see it, trust it, and act on it in time. 

IFS Zero is the answer to that question. 

One platform. One number. From operational data to decarbonization in one closed loop. 

IFS Zero. You can’t get to zero on estimates.