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Digital is transforming businesses and embedding innovation into all aspects of it, from daily operations to strategic decision making. CIOs and business leaders are required to entirely integrate their business, technology and sustainability strategies. According to Accenture's Uniting technology and sustainability report, only 7 percent of companies have fully integrated their technology strategies with their sustainability strategies. And only 49 percent of CIOs are a part of the leadership team setting sustainability goals.

Technology is a fundamental element in enabling business sustainability from improving transparency and traceability in global supply chains, to helping measure and reduce carbon emissions. Organizations tend to perform better financially with higher sustainability performance across environmental, social, and governance (ESG). This will require a blend of advanced technologies to measure, reduce, and remove an organizations carbon footprint.

CIOs are the driving force, they need to have green practices across the software development lifecycle. According to Accenture, a green lifecycle will save energy, reduce emissions, and develop carbon-efficient software. Building green software improves efficiencies across processes, deployment, usage and maintenance. Organizations can advocate and drive green as a mission while striving for a connected user and customer experience. Green software is carbon efficient and carbon aware; and integrates privacy, fairness, transparency, robustness and accessibility.

Designing and deploying an extensive sustainable technology strategy one that uses technology to drive sustainability at scale while also making technology itself more sustainable is now the core mission of the purpose-driven CIO. The responsibility is huge, but the opportunity to drive new sources of value and lead the way to a more sustainable future is even bigger.

Business. Moving forward, leaders will have to collaborate with their ecosystem to initiate the progress beyond the company and across the world.

Identify a holistic approach to interact with investors, partners, regulators and customers; consider the global impact of the products and services you create.

Think of zero carbon and embrace green software. Make the user experience sustainable, enable green AI and data practices; and sustainably manage the physical layer on which software runs.

Adopting energy efficient and green practices across the software development lifecycle. Reduce the emissions, and develop carbon-efficient software right from selecting platforms, programming languages, to designing software architecture and DevOps.

Leaders must Evaluate energy efficiency and accuracy of the AI/ML models. And repurposing existing models for a different task to cut down energy and time and in turn emissions.

Promoting data center to cloud migrations. Hosting decisions and green application development on cloud for hardware and energy efficiency. Assess implementation of edge computing inherently a low energy technology,

Driving reduction in environmental impact of IT infrastructure - end-user devices, networking components and data center by considering both usage emissions. Encouraging responsible procurement and end-of-life management amongst others.

It is necessary to leverage advanced tech AI, ML to pursue digital transformation, and undertake sustainability goals on an individual level and collaborate with business objectives.

CIOs must reassess their technologies through the lens of sustainability, and further establish and implement a comprehensive sustainable technology strategy. They should use technologies sustainably to lead growth while also delivering the environmental and social progress that their stakeholders desire.

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Driving Green Software In the Connected World - ETCIO