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Introduction
Sustainability issues are no longer siloed in procurement, infrastructure, and corporate communications. These matters are gaining traction at the Board level, and Directors have started asking for technology leaders’ strategic direction.
But the inadequate attention of CEOs and CFOs, a lack of standardised benchmarking tools, and supply chain issues often prevent CIOs from making sustainable progress in IT operations.
CIOs can adopt the following principles:
- Limit initial ambitions in environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) to carbon reduction in IT operations.
- Account for carbon in business case development, RFPs, and SLAs as an action to save future margin, mitigate risk, and evolve governance practices.
- Build upon existing foundations in internet of things (IoT), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and Machine Learning (ML) to manage the scope three conundrum.
These principles will also resonate with CFOs, Risk leaders, and Hybrid Workplace leaders.
We reference three greenhouse gas emission scopes (see endnote one) in this report, where:
- scope one relates to the direct emissions of an organisation’s own operations
- scope two involves indirect emissions from an organisation’s electricity consumption
- scope three are all other indirect emissions that relate to an organisation’s activities, excluding electricity consumption.
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