Since 2020, Okta has been on a journey to understand and address its climate impact, a commitment that has deepened with time. The year 2025 brought a series of record-breaking climate disasters, reinforcing the urgency and importance of our work.
This year’s update will cover our progress against our established science-based targets (SBTs) and highlight our expanded work in 2025 to embed sustainability more broadly across Okta and to drive a larger, more positive impact. Our climate strategy remains focused on where we can have the greatest impact - energy efficiency to reduce consumption. We believe this is good for business and for our stakeholders - our investors, customers and communities. More on our climate strategy can be found here.
Our Framework for Impact
Our sustainability program's mission is to secure sustainable and responsible growth for Okta, driving long-term value for our company and our stakeholders including our customers and investors. We anchor this mission in three core pillars:
- Company: We focus on reducing the environmental impact within our own company operations and offices, influencing how we use and deploy AI, and shaping the way we build our core products.
- Customer: We accelerate Okta’s growth by deepening customer relationships and transparently meeting their sustainability and disclosure requirements.
- Ecosystem: We think beyond our own walls to elevate sustainability across our industry by working with our supply chain, collaborating with our peers, and engaging our partners.
Expanding Okta’s positive environmental impact
In the past year, we focused our sustainability strategy on helping to improve new and critical areas of our business. Here's a look at how we broadened our programs, and helped drive efficiencies. Here’s a look at how we broadened our programs to new and critical areas of our business.
- Sustainable AI: As the industry and Okta invest more heavily in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to drive innovation and security (Okta secures AI agents), Okta has developed a Sustainable AI strategy.
Our Sustainable AI strategy is consistent with our climate strategy - measure, reduce, invest in renewable electricity, and engage our vendors. Currently we are developing models to estimate our AI environmental impact, we have developed an employee resource on how to use AI more sustainably, we are expanding our 100% renewable electricity program to cover our top AI enterprise tools, and we are engaging with our AI vendors. Using AI more efficiently - using AI for the greatest impact, choosing the appropriate/lightest model for the use case, prompting efficiently, choosing vendors with strong environmental practices - will save both money and energy. In terms of ecosystems, in 2025, we focused on engaging with our cloud service providers and AI vendors to leverage our purchasing power to push for more sustainable industry-wide actions, and we shared our best practices, including our employee resource, with peers.
- Sustainable Finance: We proactively engaged our banks to share our priorities around sustainable investing and working to reduce the environmental impact of our treasury investments. This work served as a natural extension of our vendor engagement program and strategy.
- Meetings and Events: We took steps to reduce the footprint of our two largest events, Sales Kickoff (SKO) and our annual customer conference, Oktane. Some of the initiatives included: implementing airport shuttles to reduce single-occupancy rides, reducing beef on menus and donating surplus food to minimize waste, implementing comprehensive recycling programs, and shifting to sustainable and recyclable signage.
- Employee Engagement: We expanded our employee engagement with an additional Okta Climate Week, adding new educational events like a well-attended session on Sustainable AI. We also launched our Climate Champions program providing opportunities for employees to get involved in regional events, Earth Month, and volunteering.
- Green Lease Exhibit: To embed sustainability directly into our real estate operations, we developed a sustainability exhibit for our leases. This exhibit includes recommended language on key areas, such as utility data sharing, setting science-based targets, opting into 100% renewable electricity, and HVAC electrification. We have already successfully incorporated this language into two of our lease negotiations and are actively working to finalize its rollout across our future property portfolio.
Progress Against Our Climate Targets
While working to expand our impact, we remained focused on the core targets we’ve set for our business.
- 100% Renewable Electricity: We are proud to report that in FY2025, we once again achieved our goal of matching 100% of the electricity used by our offices, remote workforce, and third-party cloud service providers, with 89% of our renewable energy having social impact co-benefits associated with the projects such as the community action portfolio through 3Degrees and our partnership with Powertrust.
- Workplace Emissions (Scope 1 & 2): In FY2025, we continued to right-size our real estate portfolio, selecting new, highly efficient, and all-electric buildings. Our real estate team has prioritized sustainability during site selection, developed green lease language, and continued to build out energy-efficient spaces. Our reduction efforts are helping us work towards our FY2030 target of 67% absolute reduction of scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions a FY2020 base year.
- Business Travel & Commuting (Scope 3): We have encountered challenges in achieving our Scope 3 travel target, as emissions have increased in connection with our business growth. However, we are actively working to mitigate this by tracking and sharing carbon emissions with leadership bi-annually and integrating sustainable travel into our events. We also made a multi-year investment in Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) certificates through United’s Eco-Skies Alliance and continue to support the Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance (SABA) to help decarbonize the aviation sector.
- Vendor Engagement (Scope 3): As of the end of FY2025, 34% of our suppliers by spend have set validated SBTs. This past year, we continued to offer our vendors resources to include educational webinars and consulting services, and we are embedding sustainability into the entire vendor lifecycle. Most significantly, we launched our first sustainability contractual addendum - adding language on SBTs and GHG inventories to supplier contracts - which we are now rolling out to suppliers to drive further accountability across our supply chain.
While we are proud of our progress, we are continuing to build our sustainability program to deliver impact, strengthen our partnership with stakeholders and create value for the business.
