Sustainability, powered by technology

Accenture
Sustainability, powered by technology

Can technology tackle climate change? There is a pressing need. If temperatures keep rising, many parts of the world will have limited agency to adapt to a changing environment. The International Energy Agency says that by 2030 emissions must fall by 45% relative to 2010 to be on track to reach net zero.The private sector has a critical role to play in a net zero future—it brings to bear influence, investment and innovation. But companies have some big questions to answer as they look to introduce and scale sustainable digital solutions. How can technology be deployed to make businesses more sustainable? What role does the cloud have to play? What, where and how and should we be measuring? And can digital truly enable sustainability?In this series, some of Accenture’s and Asia-Pacific’s leading thinkers and executives will address these questions and more in “Sustainability, powered by technology”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

  1. 08/30/2022

    Is green software on the agenda?

    This month, Adam Green speaks to two green software experts about the environmental implications of code, how businesses should think about software in their ESG strategy and the best practices to building and running green software. Navveen Balani is Chief Technologist at the Technology Sustainability Innovation Group at Accenture, and Ziliang Zong is a Professor at the Computer Science department at Texas State University. Together, they discuss how software can have deleterious impacts on the environment through wasteful and inefficient design and use, the energy costs of sophisticated hardware, and why businesses have yet to fully acknowledge and respond to the challenge of greening IT. As companies look to the metaverse as a new era of the digital revolution, promising ever-increasing computing intensity, it’s crucial to get green software principles embedded. Navveen and Zilliang explore the influential role of CIOs in driving change, and best practices like green-by-design approaches, an IT decarbonisation plan and using software to lower overall commercial power use, especially through tools like AI. They also discuss the work of the Green Software Foundation in introducing standards, benchmarks and performance specifications to help green software development to scale. To read more about some of the topics discussed in this episode, please click on the following links: Measuring sustainability. Creating value In this 2022 report, Accenture drew the following conclusions around sustainability measurement Uniting Technology and Sustainability This 2022 study, drawing from a survey of 560 companies with over one billion dollars in revenue, shows how companies with more comprehensive sustainable tech strategies are performing better across the board and presents three key ingredients for success. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    30 min
  2. 07/14/2022

    Green metrics: Are we measuring sustainability right?

    This month, Adam Green speaks to a couple of Accenture’s most experienced leaders when it comes to measuring sustainability. Series regular, Sanjay Podder, Global Lead of Technology Sustainability Innovation, is back, and he's joined by Ambrose Shannon, Accenture's Global ESG Measurement and Analytics Lead. Together, they discuss why measuring ESG matters, what tools and technologies are available to companies to measure the reams of sustainability-related data available to them, and ask, just why do businesses struggle so much to measure something they know to be so important? Ambrose tackles the talent question: Do I need to turn my finance folks into climate scientists, or do we need to employ some climate scientists and have them become my corporate finance team? And Sanjay looks at the role of the CFO, and the entire C-suite, in holistically investing in the right technology to track, measure and report on sustainability. To read more about some of the topics discussed in this episode, please click on the following links: Measuring sustainability. Creating value In this 2022 report, Accenture drew the following conclusions around sustainability measurement Uniting Technology and Sustainability This 2022 study, drawing from a survey of 560 companies with over one billion dollars in revenue, shows how companies with more comprehensive sustainable tech strategies are performing better across the board and presents three key ingredients for success. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    25 min

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Can technology tackle climate change? There is a pressing need. If temperatures keep rising, many parts of the world will have limited agency to adapt to a changing environment. The International Energy Agency says that by 2030 emissions must fall by 45% relative to 2010 to be on track to reach net zero.The private sector has a critical role to play in a net zero future—it brings to bear influence, investment and innovation. But companies have some big questions to answer as they look to introduce and scale sustainable digital solutions. How can technology be deployed to make businesses more sustainable? What role does the cloud have to play? What, where and how and should we be measuring? And can digital truly enable sustainability?In this series, some of Accenture’s and Asia-Pacific’s leading thinkers and executives will address these questions and more in “Sustainability, powered by technology”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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