Sustainability and ESG

Minimizing environmental impact with a culture of sustainable innovation

Why Sustainability and ESG?

Sustainability leadership is crucial for managing environmental risks and promoting sustainable practices. By switching to the cloud and utilizing sustainable energy sources, ESG leaders can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, water usage, and waste. Learn how to embrace business sustainability trends and strategic leadership toward sustainability to advance environmental goals and drive impactful change within your organization.

Why Sustainability and ESG?

Practical Sustainability for Business

Sustainability is a business imperative. Organizations can’t succeed when ecologies are failing or societies are degrading; in order for business to thrive, so too must the planet. Business success is inextricably tied to sustainable practices, but becoming a sustainable business doesn’t happen overnight. In this ebook, learn practical, realistic ways you can implement sustainability with impact. Get the tools for strategic leadership towards sustainability.

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How companies can take immediate action to reduce their carbon footprint

Companies across all industries have set ambitious goals to reduce the environmental impact of their operations. Achieving these goals requires collaboration across an organization, from senior executives to leaders who execute sustainability initiatives relevant to their area of the business. To accelerate progress, leaders need to align business and technical teams and build scalable solutions that can accurately measure sustainability programs and continuously improve performance.

How Machine Learning Helps Small Holder Farmers Connect, Share and Thrive

Wefarm powers the world’s largest farmer to farmer digital network. See how they are using machine learning on AWS to enable knowledge sharing among small holder farmers. With over a billion small holder farms contributing more than 70% of the world’s food – Wefarm plays an important role in using technology to develop the food supply and build resilience for small holder farmers.

The Climate Pledge

All companies have a role to play in investing in solutions to protect the planet and the economy. And all companies – including Amazon – have work to do to further reduce their operations’ carbon footprint and carbon intensity. In addition to being the right thing to do, taking ambitious climate action can spur innovation that helps a business and its customers. 

The Climate Pledge is a commitment to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040—10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge in 2019 to build a cross-sector community of companies, organizations, individuals, and partners working together to address the climate crisis and solve the challenges of decarbonizing our economy.

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    3 Ways Businesses Can Support Water Stewardship

    Why innovative cloud solutions and partnerships are key to helping AWS on its water stewardship journey.

    Create a new approach to saving water with cloud technology and local partnerships.

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    The power of prediction: How modeling the future can help increase sustainability

    Using predictive modeling, organizations are forecasting the future to help governments, businesses, and communities find opportunities to prevent environmental damage as well as economic and human loss.

    A United Nations report, released in September 2022, revealed that greenhouse gas concentrations are rising to record highs, and climate change-related disasters, like hurricanes and floods, have increased five times over the last 50 years, killing an average of 115 people per day. The UN report also emphasized the importance of providing “early warnings [to] save lives and livelihoods from climate threats.” AWS customers around the world are working to do just that. Using predictive modeling, organizations are forecasting the future to help governments, businesses, and communities find opportunities to prevent environmental damage as well as economic and human loss.

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    Empowering customers to drive sustainable solutions for a better future

    Innovation as the driving force for sustainability

    Sustainability is a societal initiative that aims for humans to co-exist on the planet over the long term. It touches everyone today: Earth’s billions of people, local and world governments, regulatory bodies, and notably, companies and their customers, employees, and investors, where the challenges of doing business as usual loom larger than ever.

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