Sustainable IT Playbook for Technology Leaders

Preface

For many years, scientists have sounded the alarm about climate change, and UN Secretary-General António Guterres has declared code red for humanity. The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.

This year has been no exception. We are becoming intensely aware of the climate emergency unraveling right before our eyes. In the summer of 2022, we saw record temperatures across the globe, massive wildfires, flooding, and droughts. As an example, the United Kingdom experienced three massive heatwaves in June, July, and August leading to extreme temperatures, more wildfires than average, ...