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The Carbon Credit Market: An Opportunity to be Seized for a Sustainable Future
Carbon credits are already a rapidly growing market, and will soon become a crucial component – alongside the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions – in achieving carbon neutrality across all industries.
Environmental impactESGFinanceSustainable technology
Is the Cloud Damaging the Planet?
Recent media coverage, such as BBC’s Panorama program that aired on 6th February, would lead some to conclude that cloud computing stands in opposition to environmental sustainability. The claim is focused on the ‘greedy’ data centers that support consumer applications such as Facebook and TikTok, which seem so essential to modern life. However, there is a strong pro-sustainability argument for the cloud.
Data strategy & BIEnvironmental impactSustainable technology
Values-Driven Growth and Businesses as Responsible Global Citizens
Businesses that have rethought their strategies with their purpose and values at the core are enjoying important payoffs. Growth plans built around purpose and values result in more motivated employees, better company performance and more loyal customers.
Environmental impactPurposeShaping cultureSocial impactStrategy
Sustainability as a Hard KPI: This Is How IT Can Help
New EU legislation means that providing reporting on your organization’s CO2 emissions will soon be mandatory. Finding efficient ways to do this is crucial – and a good place to start is with specialized technology, which can help to calculate carbon impact in just a few clicks.
Corporate governanceEnvironmental impactESGSustainable technology
The Business Opportunities and Challenges of Sustainability 2.0
The global challenges posed by climate change, resource scarcity and social inequality are becoming increasingly urgent. With pressure growing from consumers, investors and governments to operate more sustainably, businesses must adapt to this new reality by changing their business models and value propositions – not only to remain competitive, but to ensure their own survival.
Environmental impactESGOperational excellenceShaping cultureSocial impact
What the Future Digitalized Energy System Means for UK Energy Providers
As the UK energy industry collectively works towards the government’s ambitious emission reduction targets, robust digital strategy and unified data principles will be the bedrock for successful cross-sector modernization.
Data strategy & BIEnergy & utilitiesEnvironmental impactESGSustainable technology
People-Centric Banking: How to Gain the Trust of Future Generations Through Sustainability
As one of our oldest institutions, banks have a pivotal role in shaping our local communities and even our global society. Going beyond being customer-centric, some banks are embracing being people-centric – looking after and enhancing the community they serve. By placing sustainability at the core of their strategic practice and relationship building, banks can build trust with all customers, and in particular the younger generation.
Environmental impactESGFinancial servicesSocial impact
Why Trust is Stuck in the U-Bend
We are facing a continuing erosion of trust in the institutions of capitalism, globalization and democracy. But with a focus on regeneration, instead of just responsibility and resilience, businesses can plot a course through this period of disruption and systemic change.
Environmental impactESGSocial impactStrategyTrust
White Paper: Building Back With Purpose for a Safe, Equitable and Connected Future
Technology has played a momentous role in responding to the Covid-19 crisis: supporting healthcare, enabling businesses and governments to function remotely and keeping people connected in lockdown. This speaks directly to the social impact goals of many companies around the world, whether that is to safeguard the health and safety of employees, bring communities together or improve access to vital services like health and education.
Breakthrough technologiesEnvironmental impactPurposeSocial impactWhitepaper
Why It Makes Business Sense to Protect and Restore Nature
Business and nature are eternally and irreversibly linked. Corporations that transform their business models will gain a competitive advantage over those that do not advocate for nature. To take a leadership position in this realm, companies must Assess, Commit, Act and Advocate.
Environmental impactESGPartnershipsStrategy
Transforming for Growth and the Future of the Planet
As we navigate the rapidly-changing business landscape, soon the only lasting competitive advantage that companies have will be the sustainability of their operations and their readiness to develop products and services that positively impact the world around them.
Environmental impactESGSocial impactStrategy
The Most Important Data Challenge There’s Ever Been
With strong pressure in B2B coming from supply chain and investment funding to be able to prove sustainability goals, robust data is vital. Despite the complexity, organisations must work towards the big picture of data collection and analysis within their business now, to be in position to take the opportunities that carbon emission data can provide.
Data strategy & BIEnvironmental impactESGSupply chain
Think Bigger When It Comes to Your Carbon Footprint
Understanding what needs to be done to decrease emissions is one thing, but putting it into effect is something else. Sustainability technologies that enable businesses to take action do exist – corporations must now be willing to use them.
Environmental impactESGSupply chainSustainable technology
Sustainability Trends for a Stronger, More Resilient and Nature-Positive World
There is money to be made from nature-positive transitions. Recent moves and initiatives from governments, regulatory bodies and the finance sector are opening up new doors for opportunity. When more companies get onboard, we’ll begin to see real change towards emissions targets.
Environmental impactESGSocial impactStrategy
The Blue Economy: Combining Technology and Sustainability to Defend the Seas
Technological development is an important vehicle to achieve sustainability, but companies must open up to innovation. Developments in the Blue Economy – protecting our marine environment and sustainably using ocean resources for improved social and economic life – offer inspiring examples of how technology is helping to protect and enhance the most vital element of our planet’s natural resources.
Breakthrough technologiesEnvironmental impactPartnershipsSocial impact
The Era of the Bio-Economy
Enabling technologies have given us the power to harmonise natural and economic systems. There are now lucrative opportunities for corporations to translate complexities into solutions for biodiversity protection, pollution prevention, public health improvements and job creation. Welcome to the era of the Bio-Economy.
Environmental impactESGInnovationIoT
Only Natural: Using the Five Capitals Model to Form a Sustainable Development Strategy
A more detailed framework is needed to understand how we can develop a sustainable society. The five capitals model expands on current assessments to include our dependence and impact on nature and the resources needed to achieve the SDGs. Luckily, there are already protocols in place to help integrate the capitals into operations.
Environmental impactESGFinanceStrategy
Decouple or Die! How Circular Approaches Can Unlock Business Success in a World of Challenges and Constraints
We need to radically rethink our systems to live within our limits on this planet. By adopting a circular economy, businesses can decouple their footprint from the value they deliver to society.
Circular economyDesign thinkingEnvironmental impactESG
Bold, Innovative Partnerships Can Drive Sustainability and Benefit Business, People and Planet
Businesses must be pioneers of a new development path that is just, equitable and puts people and nature first. Beyond ensuring their own operations are sustainable, businesses are primed to lead on rapid adaptation and the innovative solutions needed to drive change.
CharityEnvironmental impactPartnershipsStrategy
The Shift to Zero-Emission Mobility
The EU has set ambitious goals for e-mobility, but so far hasn’t created the infrastructure to meet them. A definite and significant first-mover advantage is here, as well as the potential for a new market. Using integrated digital platforms to create an ecosystem will improve the customer experience – the currently missing ingredient to make e-mobility stick.
AutomotiveCXEnergy & utilitiesEnvironmental impactTransport & logistics
Sustainable Innovation in Aviation
The aviation industry is facing its greatest performance test to date – addressing the challenges of climate change in an economically weakened state. Rethinking the way we make decisions, holding fast to a century of achievement and continually improving one’s own solutions are the guiding principles to industry transformation.
Environmental impactESGInnovationTransport & logistics
Quantum Computing’s Leap into a Sustainable Future
Complex computations are needed to help us solve the planet’s climate crisis. Business innovators can stay one step ahead of changes with an adolescent mathematical field, Quantum Computing – the tool that will increase the velocity of exploration toward a more sustainable future.
Breakthrough technologiesEnvironmental impactStrategy
Leading Transformations – The Fundamental Shift in Strategic Management
Our planet is the only known place in the universe that has brought about this incredibly rich diversity of life. But it also brought about a strange species, equipped with the capacity to diminish life on Earth – or rescue it. The most powerful actors for transforming our world are companies. If they change the way they operate, hope for the future gains a new meaning.
Environmental impactPurposeSocial impactStrategy
Electric Mobility: Trend or Key to a Truly Green Future?
Today, there is no lack of critical issues that are holding back the take-off of electric mobility. Here are the issues to be solved for a more sustainable tomorrow. Translated from Italian
Energy & utilitiesEnvironmental impactESG
Neo Business: How Enterprises Must React to Social, Economic and Environmental Change
What can be considered a ‘transformed’ business has changed significantly. Organisations must consider a plethora of concerns, from customer demands, social issues, environmental concerns to changing relationships with commercial partners, and this symbiotic relationship with the global societal fabric means a new reality for business transformation grounded in collaboration, wellbeing and education.
CXEnvironmental impactSocial impactStrategy