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Sustainability trends: 5 issues to watch in 2024

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Advanced technologies, more stringent reporting standards and stronger support from stakeholders are building momentum for eco-friendly initiatives and the incentives that encourage them. trillion to the global economy by 2050. Reporting is also becoming critical to corporate social responsibility initiatives.

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AES enlists AI to boost its sustainable energy business

CIO Business Intelligence

company’s carbon footprint to reach Paris Accord goals by 2050. Those investments come just as the company claims, in its 2023 annual report, that demand from corporate data centers in the US is expected to roughly double within the next three years as generative AI deployments expand. million in its first year, contributed a $5.5

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Climate change predictions: Anticipating and adapting to a warming world

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Climate models provide answers Human activities precipitated changes to the Earth’s climate in the 20th century and will largely determine the future climate. Global climate models have given climate scientists a set of expectations as to what the future could hold, both for the Earth at large and for specific regions.

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How the C-Suite Can Champion Sustainability Across the Enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

In fact, more than 3,200 companies have set science-based carbon targets , and thousands of companies from around the world are pledging to reach net-zero emissions by either 2040 or 2050. Adopting a sustainable model mindset across the enterprise fosters an environment for collaboration, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

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IBM and Microsoft partnership accelerates sustainable cloud modernization

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Its aggressive sustainability goals included achieving net zero emissions by 2050, making all packaging reusable or recyclable by 2025 and investing more than USD 3 billion globally over several years to drive momentum. Currently, data centers are a significant source of organizations’ energy usage and carbon emissions.

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Australian businesses need new servers to drive sustainability and innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

However, despite data centres and transmission networks being responsible for nearly 1 per cent of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions, a new Deloitte study reports little over half (54 per cent) of businesses have converted to energy-efficient technologies. Businesses are feeling growing pressure to act on climate change from all angles.

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Renewable energy in action: Examples and use cases for fueling the future

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Portugal : The country was one of the first in Europe to pledge carbon neutrality by 2050. Meeting compliance and sustainability reporting requirements : Using renewable energy can help businesses meet mandatory reporting requirements and contribute to local and international goals in the fight against climate change.

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