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INCREASED AWARENESS
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TECHNOLOGY FOR GREEN BUSINESS
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DIGITAL SOBRIETY
Sustainability is everyone's responsibility. All over the world, companies from different sectors and of varying sizes have undertaken efforts to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Yet too often these efforts are slow, unfocused, and not sufficient enough to make a significant imact.
As we zero-in on our sustainable business efforts in this decade of action, it is imperative to create synergies between emission abatement technologies and climate finances. And, of course, providing absolute transparency across all environmental, societal, and governance parameters. This all starts with awareness and being vigilant in looking at what’s happening across different industries so we can identify sustainable best practices.
Learn about the "Sustain-abilities" all companies should be equipped with in the full report.
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408
of the top US businesses came together to call for a 50% reduction in US emissions by 2030.
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55%
is the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that CEOs from across the EU have called for by 2030.
C-level consciousness of sustainability is critical. It's what enables potent and impactful messages to permeate a business and enact positive, impactful, and long-term change.
Your corporate sustainability reputation must be built on clear science-based pledges, carbon management policies, operational standards, governance and compliance processes, along with a range of diversity and inclusion practices. All of these need to be realized through a coherent and transparent set of of strategies, projects, and actions.
Leaders are also realizing the risks of inaction. Learn more about 5 risks all leaders need to be aware of in the full report.
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92%
of CEOs think sustainability integration is critical
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48%
of CEOs are integrating sustainability into operations
Every area of our lives both contributes to emissions and is impacted by digitalization.
"IT for Green" explores that connection. The concept aims to rethink, repurpose and reinvent digital technology solutions in a way that results in more carbon, energy, and resource efficient processes and industries. By analyzing, calculating and preventing inefficient uses of energy, it can help us drastically reduce further emissions.
Technology can help us monitor, model, and manage the earth's resources at a speed and scale that we could never have dreamt of before.
Explore the role of technology in achieving "IT for Green" - we provide two examples of augmented meterological forecasting and carbon digital twinning, and how they can reduce emissions.
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10 years
The time the IPCC estimated we have left to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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50%
of carbon emission reductions to come from new technologies, according to US climate envoy, John Kerry.
We believe that it is our responsibility, as an industry, to consider every single aspect of what we do. Digital sobriety embraces the idea of designing less energy-hungry digital services and moderating daily digital use in order to reduce the overall emissions impact of digitalization.
This concept will result in a fundamental shift in how the IT industry applies design, data, and infrastructure to software development in a way that results in reduced energy consumption and increased energy efficiency.
What does a digital sobriety methodology look like in practice? Find out in the full report.
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3.7%
The IT industry accounts for about 3.7% of global greenhouse emissions.
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135kg
The equivalent amount of carbon dioxide produced by a typical business user just by sending emails each year.
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TECHNOLOGY FOR GREEN BUSINESS
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