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An essential guide to green IT audits
Green IT audit: What it is and how to prepare
A green IT audit uses standards to help companies understand the ways an organization's tech practices affect the environment. Here's a broad overview and some tips to get started.
By Paul Kirvan • April 22, 2024 -
Businesses need to prepare for SEC climate rules, EU’s CSRD
While the SEC's new climate rules and the EU's CSRD are both facing delays, businesses still need to identify methods for collecting and assessing climate data.
By Makenzie Holland • April 19, 2024 -
An essential guide to green IT audits
A green IT assessment: Why it’s important, what to include
A company's technology systems and devices can have a profound effect on sustainability efforts. Learn how a green IT assessment can uncover areas that need improvement.
By Paul Kirvan • April 19, 2024 -
AI to boost sustainability if carbon costs are kept in check
AI has the potential to drive ESG goals and improve sustainability outcomes, but using the tech also creates considerable environmental cost with the amount of energy needed.
By Jim O'Donnell • April 16, 2024 -
Blueprint for IT sustainability: Insights from top experts
Leading experts share insights on sustainable IT, covering green cloud computing, ESG compliance and innovative practices for reducing the ecological footprint in IT.
By Ana Salom-Boira • March 25, 2024 -
Generative AI emerges as sustainability opportunity
Generative AI can be a useful tool for helping business leaders achieve climate and sustainability goals.
By Makenzie Holland • March 22, 2024 -
IT's path to environmental responsibility
6 sustainability reporting data tips for IT
Data overload presents a real challenge to ESG reporting. But with the right practices, IT teams can streamline their collection processes and help ensure sustainability success.
By Carolyn Heinze • March 18, 2024 -
Managing and predicting wildfires with machine learning
CTO Guy Bayes shares his experience developing AI software to predict and manage wildfires at startup Vibrant Planet and offers tips for getting started in climate tech.
By Lev Craig • March 13, 2024 -
SEC adopts climate risk disclosure rules
The SEC finalized climate risk disclosure rules to provide investors with consistent information about publicly filed businesses -- but the vote was not without controversy.
By Makenzie Holland • March 6, 2024 -
The environmental impact of Web 3.0
Web3 and sustainability: Benefits and risks
The Web 3.0 concept presents major advances to the World Wide Web, but the tech that underpins it also has environmental impacts, including carbon emissions and e-waste.
By Mary Pratt • March 1, 2024 -
Expert Advice // IT's path to environmental responsibility
5 ways to reduce an organization’s digital carbon footprint
From optimizing video conferences to minimizing unnecessary data storage, learn practical strategies that can help shrink an organization's digital carbon footprint.
By Carolyn Heinze • March 1, 2024 -
IT's path to environmental responsibility
7 tech jobs IT pros can use to help the environment
Almost every job can be used to help save the planet, and that's true for IT roles as well. Learn how these seven business tech jobs can promote sustainability.
By Mary Pratt • Feb. 29, 2024 -
Building for ESG now will help with future regulations
To keep pace with evolving ESG regulations, companies will need to coordinate with and gather data from all parts of the business. And laying the groundwork now will pay off.
By Jim O'Donnell • Feb. 9, 2024 -
Hilti Group uses tools, tech to tackle circular manufacturing
Hilti Group's move to circular manufacturing helps with sustainability targets while building on existing processes and helping address supply chain issues.
By Jim O'Donnell • Feb. 5, 2024 -
embodied carbon
Embodied carbon is the measurable greenhouse gas emissions of an infrastructure's entire construction, maintenance and demolition processes.
By Venus Kohli • Feb. 2, 2024 -
Opinion
How to shrink your IT carbon footprint and why it matters
Organizations are shifting IT priorities toward efficient resource consumption. Learn how strategies prioritizing sustainability can enhance a company's competitive advantage.
By George Burns III • Jan. 17, 2024 -
IT's path to environmental responsibility
Tech a double-edged sword in race to sustainability
As cloud computing and digital reliance grow, so, too, does the need to focus on sustainability. Here's a look at some of the urgent issues, as well as some of the progress.
By Diann Daniel • Jan. 17, 2024 -
Regulatory requirements intensify with EU’s CSRD
Companies that operate in the European Union will need to conduct more extensive ESG reporting in 2024 to meet requirements of the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.
By Jim O'Donnell • Dec. 18, 2023 -
Businesses need to prepare for climate reporting in 2024
The EU CSRD will require climate reporting starting in 2024, while businesses will need to prepare for California's climate rule reporting starting in 2026.
By Makenzie Holland • Dec. 13, 2023 -
Green IT needs business buy-in for success
In this Q&A, Faith Taylor of Kyndryl explains why sustainability efforts must combine business growth with concrete emissions reporting to meet net zero targets.
By Jim O'Donnell • Dec. 12, 2023 -
Expert Advice // How accessible documents can transform your business
Digital accessibility standards to note
Business leaders must understand the benefits of creating an accessible digital experience. Learn more about the digital accessibility standards laid out by the W3C and ADA.
By George Lawton • Dec. 7, 2023 -
The environmental impact of Web 3.0
The environmental impact of bitcoin mining explained
As access to and interest in cryptocurrency has expanded, its popularity has grown too. From a sustainability perspective, that's a bad thing.
By Mary Pratt • Nov. 30, 2023 -
Expert Advice
How to overcome 4 common IIoT adoption challenges
More industries are employing IIoT to make their operations run smoother and more efficiently. But thorny deployment issues can give some companies pause.
By Julia Borgini • Oct. 24, 2023 -
U.S. climate policy implementation will be put to the test
Permitting, China's clean energy tech manufacturing and workforce are some of the challenges facing implementation of the U.S.'s first climate policy, the Inflation Reduction Act.
By Makenzie Holland • Oct. 13, 2023 -
3 things to know about California’s new climate laws
Businesses have three years to prepare for California's new climate laws, which will require carbon emission and climate risk reporting.
By Makenzie Holland • Oct. 10, 2023