Sustainability during crisis: Understanding CEO perspectives

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Sustainability, powered by technology

Accenture

5 episodes

6 months ago

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”.

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Sustainability during crisis: Understanding CEO perspectives

Sustainability, powered by technology

26 minutes 34 seconds

2 years ago

Sustainability during crisis: Understanding CEO perspectives

This month, Adam Green speaks to Casey Wells, a senior managing director leading Accenture’s business in the Northeast US, and Michael Hughes, a sustainability strategy and technology director at Accenture, about the latest United Nations Global Compact-Accenture CEO Study on Sustainability, and how business leaders are thinking about sustainability at a time of rising global instability. A dramatic set of challenges — from inflation to labor shortages, trade regulation and geopolitical instability — are forcing businesses to navigate new levels of uncertainty, and threatening efforts to reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This podcast explores how CEOs are trying to build resilience against those challenges by putting sustainability at the core of their businesses. We also discuss the role of technology in driving the sustainability agenda, and shortcomings in global regulatory frameworks.

Read more about some of the topics discussed in this episode:

United Nations Global Compact-Accenture CEO Study on Sustainability

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