Fireside chat: Tech-enabled sustainability: Moving from aspiration to action
summary
Organizations stall on an “endless business loop” where small sustainability teams must justify tradeoffs like $5 million launch versus $5 million supply‑chain decarbonization; data becomes the enabler. Practical moves include starting with one defensible ESG metric, wiring ERP/EHS to carbon software for 24-hour data flow, and using marketplaces/APIs (example: Zero Marketplace) to give 3 million SMBs footprints without $30,000 consultants. Targets like reduce scope 3 by 50% need phased accuracy, six‑to‑12‑month integrations, and can halve manual workload for a 3–6 person team.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Sustainability strategy challenges
- 2:38Data in sustainability decisions
- 5:46Embedding sustainability in processes
- 8:17Data accountability deadlock
- 11:10Automating sustainability data
- 14:00Sustainability tech ecosystem
- 16:45Tech leaders driving sustainability
- 18:11Low-cost SMB sustainability
- 21:40Prioritizing sustainability in tech
- 24:25Regulation as catalyst
- 27:55Seizing sustainability opportunities
- 32:06Closing remarks
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