Displaying items by tag: Climate change

GUEST OPINION: Sustainability is becoming a bigger driver of IT buying decisions, thanks to increasing regulation on climate reporting as well as growing consumer and investor demands. Environmental responsibility is an imperative for businesses now, and IT operations can be a big contributor to a company’s environmental impact—sometimes the biggest contributor.

GUEST OPINION:  Decarbonisation becomes easier to achieve when digital technologies are deployed intelligently.

FinTech Australia, the national association for the Australian FinTech startup community, has launched a new event aimed at showcasing sustainability-focused fintech companies.

Under a program to reduce energy costs and help address climate change, digital infrastructure company Equinix has deployed a 1MW rooftop solar system at its ME1 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Melbourne, bringing additional clean power to local grids where Equinix operates.

Global imaging, print, and hardware manufacturer Epson has partnered with talented digital artists to reveal the words that most describe how young people are feeling about climate change. To bring them to life, Epson partnered with digital artists Katy Wang and Gabriel Greenough to produce a piece of original, digital art, to bring generation COP voices to life in a visually impactful way.

New Zealand competition regulator The Commerce Commission has issued new guidance designed to help businesses working together to pursue sustainability goals, with a focus on distinguishing between “illegal collusion and legitimate collaboration”.

Intel’s roadmap to achieving greenhouse gas emission reductions and climate goals

GUEST OPINION by Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger:  We are in a new era of global expansion where computing power has become foundational to a bigger opportunity and better future for every person on the planet. It has the power to make industries more sustainable and to unlock new solutions in the fight against climate change.

GUEST INTERVIEW: We spoke to Andy Ridley and Ben Vozzo from the Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef plus Dell's Aruna Kolluru about the latest Great Reef Census and how Dell's servers and A.I. were helping. We learned how the Census - which involves monitoring sections of reef using professional and amateur photos - has accelerated dramatically in recent years, thanks to greater technology efficiencies plus gamified user interaction.

GUEST OPINION: Humanity has never faced a common threat as consequential as climate change.

The United Nation’s leading body on climate change has issued its final IPCC Climate Change Synthesis Report reaffirming that low emission technologies are a feasible and effective option for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and addressing climate change.

AWS announced at its annual AWS re:Invent conference it will be water positive by 2030, returning more water to communities than it uses in direct operations.

Global small business platform Xero has announced its emissions reduction targets from now to 2030, aiming to be completely net-zero by 2050.

Data centres will experience increased regulation and third-party oversight in 2023 as the world continues to grapple with the industry’s rising energy and water consumption against the backdrop of ongoing climate change, one of the key trends identified by Vertiv global data centre experts.

Forty-two percent of decision makers believe they will face disruptions to their enterprises in the near future due to natural disasters caused by climate change, according to Ericsson’s Future of Enterprises report, which highlight the importance of organisations being proactive and resilient in the face of disruption.

Farmers for Climate Action, a farmer-led organisation focused solely on climate change, says strong climate policy can help deliver Australian farmers a “great trade deal “with the EU.

The threat of climate change is real, and regular folk like you and I can play a part in educating others and changing behaviours - of individuals, organisations, and governments - with a solid data-driven basis.

“It’s now or never”: new IPCC report issues warning to governments to speed up renewables transition

Australia and the Federal Government have come under fire over lack of action in respnse to climate change in the wake of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) releasing its landmark Working Group III report - Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change - compiled by thousands of scientists over the past eight years.

The Israelis have long worked on technologies to make the desert fertile, with the latest example being SupPlant, the AgTech company recently chosen as one of TIME’s Best Inventions, with the $27M raised to accelerate its intention to digitally inform every irrigation recommendation on earth.

Acer today announced the new Acer Aspire Vero National Geographic Edition laptop, a special edition of the Acer Aspire Vero, incorporating design elements evocative of planet earth and with each purchase supporting the National Geographic Society.

Israeli-based agritech company SupPlant was deemed as one of the Best Inventions by Time magazine.