SUSTAINABILITY & ESG
Minimizing Environmental Impact with a Culture of Sustainable Innovation
Sustainability leadership is crucial for managing environmental risks and promoting sustainable practices. By switching to the cloud and utilizing sustainable energy sources, ESG leaders can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, water usage, and waste. Learn how to embrace business sustainability trends and strategic leadership toward sustainability to advance environmental goals and drive impactful change within your organization.
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Practical Sustainability for Business
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Sustainability is a business imperative. Organizations can’t succeed when ecologies are failing or societies are degrading; in order for business to thrive, so too must the planet. Business success is inextricably tied to sustainable practices, but becoming a sustainable business doesn’t happen overnight. In this ebook, learn practical, realistic ways you can implement sustainability with impact. Get the tools for strategic leadership towards sustainability.
Executives share how they drive environmental sustainability programs
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How Parsyl Uses Amazon Bedrock to Help Reduce Waste in the Global Supply Chain
Data-powered insurer Parsyl is using Amazon Bedrock to take unwieldy information from its customers—such as multiple email attachments in different formats—and turn it into usable data. This allows Parsyl to quickly identify patterns of risk for businesses transporting sensitive and ambient goods around the world—from a door left ajar on a truck full of fresh fish, to a shipping lane prone to delays.
Scaling Sustainability Innovation
Hear how AWS and Siemens are utilizing technology to integrate sustainability into their infrastructure and operations, as well as helping customers and partners deploy solutions to achieve their sustainability goals.
Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) Leadership
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By Mark Schwartz
AWS Enterprise Strategist
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Environmental and social governance, or ESG, is a growing concern for business leaders—and for government regulators, investors, and standards bodies. The critical thing to understand about ESG is that it is a strategic concern of businesses, not just a nice-to-have activity. According to a Fortune 500 company board member, “companies are recognizing that taking care of broader stakeholders in the business over the mid- to long-term is a good thing for the long-term sustainability of the business.”
We often talk about the cultural change and the shift in mental models needed for an organization to thrive in the digital age. In this post I mean to suggest that we need a further change in culture and mental models to make ESG an aspect of everything we do. So how can IT promote ESG strategies?
45% of board directors now say that ESG is a regular part of the board’s agenda, up from 34% in 2019.
How companies can take immediate action to reduce their carbon footprint
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Companies across all industries have set ambitious goals to reduce the environmental impact of their operations. Achieving these goals requires collaboration across an organization, from senior executives to leaders who execute sustainability initiatives relevant to their area of the business. To accelerate progress, leaders need to align business and technical teams and build scalable solutions that can accurately measure sustainability programs and continuously improve performance.
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Wefarm powers the world’s largest farmer to farmer digital network. See how they are using machine learning on AWS to enable knowledge sharing among small holder farmers. With over a billion small holder farms contributing more than 70% of the world’s food – Wefarm plays an important role in using technology to develop the food supply and build resilience for small holder farmers.
Empowering Customers to Drive Sustainable Solutions for a Better Future
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AWS customers use our services in a wide range of ways to collect, analyze, and manage sustainability data to build transparency and accelerate progress. In this eBook, we’ll explore stories of how several of our leading customers are accomplishing big things along their own paths to sustainability in cloud migration, sustainable IT, carbon emissions tracking, and building efficiency.
The Climate Pledge
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All companies have a role to play in investing in solutions to protect the planet and the economy. And all companies – including Amazon – have work to do to further reduce their operations’ carbon footprint and carbon intensity. In addition to being the right thing to do, taking ambitious climate action can spur innovation that helps a business and its customers.
The Climate Pledge is a commitment to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040—10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge in 2019 to build a cross-sector community of companies, organizations, individuals, and partners working together to address the climate crisis and solve the challenges of decarbonizing our economy.
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