Sustainable IT Playbook for Technology Leaders

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Our Most Significant Challenge Ahead

Earth’s life support systems are the sum of the planet’s ice sheets, oceans, forests, rivers, lakes, a rich diversity of life, and gigantic recirculations of carbon, water, nitrogen, and phosphorus. The system is now most definitely unstable and could push it over the edge, taking us – 7.8 billion people – with it.

– Johan Rockström

This chapter will teach you about the basics of climate change and understand the breadth and depth that digitalization and hyperconnectivity have on our society.

The main objectives of this chapter are to introduce you to climate change. It will teach you basic concepts such as the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) protocol, carbon accounting, scope 1, 2, 3, and 4 definitions, the Science-Based ...