TY  - JOUR
AU  - Jimenez Pastrana, Felipe
AU  - Dargusch, Paul
AU  - Hill, Genia
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/27
TI  - How is Environmental Sustainability a Key to Innovation?
JO  - Advances in Environmental and Engineering Research
SP  - 016
VL  - 03
IS  - 02
AB  - The private sector plays an important role in the global climate goals and the 1.5°C target set during the Paris Agreement. Through investment in green projects and technology and energy efficiency initiatives, their carbon management strategy is paramount to achieve sustainability and good business practices. It is crucial to understand the proposals that the industry has established to reduce its environmental impact by applying supply chain optimization and technological advances or by participating in the carbon market. By identifying key aspects related to climate action within an organization’s sustainability reports and linking them to climate change and carbon management literature from global entities and peer review assessments, the present research evaluates how the IT sector is acting towards increasing emissions. More specifically, this case study analyzes Hewlett Packard´s climate action performance, emissions estimates, and reduction methods, as one of the most sustainable technology companies in the world. During 2020, Hewlett Packard claims to have emitted 44,891,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) which represented an emissions reduction compared to 2019, considering their increasing renewable energy consumption, waste management applications, product optimization, and energy efficiency projects. However, by comparing with what other leaders in the IT sector are doing, improving environmental indicator monitoring and determination, increasing renewable energy and green projects implementation, developing a resilient life-cycle assessment program, and effectively engaging supplier stakeholders, are urgent tasks to achieve better emissions monitoring and abatement. Thus, by engaging with these set of objectives the company and the IT sector, will be able to effectively cope with climate change and establish mitigation and adaptation strategies that will support global environmental targets.
SN  - 2766-6190
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21926/aeer.2202016
DO  - 10.21926/aeer.2202016
ID  - Jimenez Pastrana2022
ER  -