Rising global temperatures, shrinking ice shelves, and increasing natural disasters demonstrate the urgent reality of climate change.
Constant exposure to negative news leads to "disaster fatigue," while competing crises like housing and healthcare divert attention and resources.
Sustainability is broken down into ecological, social, and economic pillars, with the ESG framework providing a way for investors to measure a company's impact.
Governments worldwide are enacting laws like the European Green Deal and the US Inflation Reduction Act to gain a competitive advantage in sustainable technologies.
While software can enable sustainability goals, the "induction effect" means new technologies like AI also create significant new resource consumption.
Software's environmental impact stems from processing, storage, and data transmission, with unused "dark data" being a major source of waste.
The Green Software Foundation's ISO standard helps measure software's carbon footprint by focusing on energy efficiency, hardware efficiency, and carbon awareness.
To gain buy-in from management, frame sustainability initiatives not as an ecological cost but as a direct path to improved resource efficiency and cost savings.
29:30Hendrik Lösch
27:46Michael Mueller
33:01Julien Lengrand-Lambert
1:02:22Marjolein Pordon
24:52Hendrik Lösch
29:31Pierre-Luc Noel & Fritz Reichmann
18:53Bjorna Kalaja
09:23Kent Simonsen
Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.
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M&M Software GmbH
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Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH
Accenture GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
Friedhelm Loh Stiftung & Co. KG
Monheim am Rhein, Germany
tarent solutions GmbH