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The Sustainability Podcast by David Daoud David Daoud of Compliance Standards LLC
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This is David Daoud of Compliance Standards LLC, an analyst firm that tracks various segments of Green IT, including recycling. This podcast is dedicated to discussing all things related to electronics recycling, data security, the environment, product design, and much more. For those of you who are interested in how technology, new and old, is shaping our environment and lives, stay tuned and join us to hear about the latest and participate to the debate.
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Sustainability Leadership Series: A Discussion with Fulton Connor, Tempus CEO
In this episode, David Daoud of Compliance Standards hosts Fulton Connor, CEO of Southern California-based Tempus. Tempus is an IT Asset Disposition company that handles corporate IT assets when to end their first lifecycle. The discussion is unscripted and touches on key aspects of the ITAD sector, from customer behavior to the future with AI and ESG.
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How to Market ITAD in a Complex Digital World
Since September 2023, #Google began to roll out what it called a “helpful content update” that is likely to have significant impact on companies’ marketing efforts and strategies. The #ITAD sector may be affected by this move, because unless marketing executives in these companies take notice of what matters and adjust accordingly, their ability to reach an outside audience, market their brand, market their products, educate their customers and grow, will be highly compromised. In this podcast, David Daoud of #compliancestandards describes the implications of the new Google algorithm and offers solutions to comply and thrive.
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Regulators in Europe and US Push Against Greenwashing ESG and Sustainability in Investment Funds
The abusive and misleading use of terms like ESG and Sustainability prompted the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) to publish new guidelines to address the confusion facing investors, including an 80% investment threshold required to characterize a fund as a sustainable investment fund. In the US, the SEC has been under pressure by 21 congressional Democrats to publish a rule that would prevent investment funds from abusing terms like ESG, sustainability, green, etc., and force them to be more transparent about the funds they characterize as sustainable. Here is a brief overview.
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A Look at the ITAD Industry’s Evolving ESG Reporting Tools
Companies that offer IT Asset Disposition services (ITAD), have long paid attention to reporting the outcome of their operations from a financial to operational standpoints, as well to an environmental standpoint when possible. Many leading ITAD vendors spent large amounts of resources to track how they are doing on the environmental front and
convince their customers that they had a good handle on reporting such tracking and outcome. The truth is that until very recently, environmental reporting has not been a major request from clients, yet a few ITAD companies offered data to their customers as a value-added
service. For a few leading ITAD companies, this movement started as early as 2003 when the “Green IT Debate” raged. Then, I engaged with a small number of ITADs that began building tools necessary to track the
flow of devices and what happens to them afterwards.
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The Politicization of ESG: How Various Business, Social & Political Groups have Divergent Views on ESG
There has been a disturbing movement in sustainability investing lately that went somehow unnoticed. After being key drivers of ESG and environmental responsibility, seeking to pressure corporations to adopt more transparent metrics on their environmental, social and government practices, many American investors pulled back from their own sustainable investment commitments in the first quarter this year.
In this podcast, David Daoud of Compliance Standards looks at the motives of the groups that are on the opposite sides of the ESG debate.
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Questioning Lenovo’s ‘Sustainability-as-a-Service’ Strategy
In 2020, an @HP paper sought to make its case in favor of printing as a service. The argument was interesting. It started by equating the “print-as-a-service” model to subscription services like cable TV or streaming platforms. It even brought to the paper the idea of a ‘meal kit service’ for weeknight dinners as an example of what such service is all about. As a tech company, it naturally included comparisons with cloud computing and software. The efforts by HP, @Kyocera and others to promote print as a service are understandable, and they completely make sense. Selling hardware is not always a sustainable model. It’s a risky one. In particular when demand for hardware and prices drop over time. This time, @Lenovo is trying something even harder to sell. Selling the idea of “Sustainability-As-a-Service.” Will it succeed? David Daoud argues that this will be a much harder sale to make.
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