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11/29/23, 10:38 AM Interview: Bentley Systems, Driving Sustainability for Industries Digitally
In conversation with Rodrigo Fernandes, Director ES(D)G at

Bentley Systems, as he discusses the importance of sustainability

across industries and Bentley Systems’ contribution in developing

digital strategies focusing on sustainable infrastructure.

Can you tell us about Bentley Systems’ Sustainability

Approach?

We identify four core sustainability challenges that we can help the

industries with to empower Sustainable Development Goals in their

fields. These core sustainability challenges are Clean Energy

Transition, Climate Action (including mitigation or decarbonizing, but

also resilience and adaptation), and Land and Water resources. We

put land and water resources in the same group, mostly because

they link, you cannot think about water without thinking about how

you extract the water from the land and the resources that you need

to manage. And finally, it’s what we call Healthy Communities, or if

you prefer Healthy Cities, here we include aspects like sustainable

mobility to connect communities, by transportation in multiple ways.

Addressing these four categories or challenges is really important

for us.

In terms of our industries, priorities or investments, these core

aspects are major part of our focus and discussions. And instead of

going into each one of these, there is one aspect that we feel that is

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