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Sustainable IT Playbook for Technology Leaders

You're reading from   Sustainable IT Playbook for Technology Leaders Design and implement sustainable IT practices and unlock sustainable business opportunities

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803230344
Length 418 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Part 1: Why Is Sustainable IT Important?
2. Chapter 1: Our Most Significant Challenge Ahead FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Rise of Sustainable IT 4. Part 2: What Are Sustainable IT Practices?
5. Chapter 3: The Fundamental Building Blocks of a Sustainable IT Practice 6. Chapter 4: Data Center and Cloud 7. Chapter 5: Application and Data 8. Chapter 6: IT Hardware Management 9. Chapter 7: Energy Resource Management 10. Chapter 8: Leveraging Your Buying Power 11. Chapter 9: Sustainability by IT 12. Part 3: How Do You Accelerate Sustainable IT?
13. Chapter 10: Get Started Today 14. Chapter 11: Putting a Sustainable IT Strategy in Place 15. Chapter 12: From Strategy to Execution – Lead with Purpose and Deliver Progress Quickly 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Climate change – our most significant challenge ahead

The 2022 global risks report published by the World Economic Forum highlights climate action failure as the number one risk over the next decade. The effects are felt all over the planet in extreme heat, cold, massive precipitation, drought, or wildfire. Climate change affects us all. It is a global problem that we jointly need to work on to solve. GHG emissions are more than 50% higher than in 1990. On February 27, 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released Part 2, which paints a grim picture that we continue to spiral downward but some solutions are starting to emerge to curb the climate crisis. We need to urgently transition into a sustainable way of living where we stay well within the constraints of Earth. Humanity is currently taking significantly more than we put back in. We use the equivalent of 1.75 % of Earth’s resources to provide the resources we use and absorb our waste (Giné...

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