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US corporate boards are increasingly turning attention to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. ESG is an organization-wide endeavor for those companies rising to the challenge, and CIOs won’t be left out.
“I think the CIOs are the dark horse of ESG,” says Nicola Acutt, vice president of ESG at VMware. “No one’s paying attention to the role of the CIO, but it’s going to be critical.”
Acutt, whose ESG organization is part of the Office of the CTO at VMware, received her current title in December 2020 in conjunction with VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger’s announcement of Agenda 2030, a set of 30 goals in the areas of trust, equality, and sustainability that the company wants to achieve by 2030. At the time, Acutt said 2020 had shown that VMware’s past approach to corporate responsibility was “no longer sufficient in an interdependent and unpredictable world.”
January 27, 2021
Clockwise, from top left: Laura Lane, UPS; Darnell Grisby, TransForm; Guy Grainger, JLL, Boma Brown-West, EDF; Miriam Nelson, Newman s Own Foundation; Asheen Phansey, Circular Fashion Group; Clare Shine, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership; Janelle Heslop, Amgen. Middle row from left: Claire Bergkamp, Textile Exchange; Steve Quarles, AWEA; Elliott Rodgers, Ulta Beauty; Maribel Bostic, SunPower; Dana Worth, Plenty.
You dared to dream that some of the upheaval of 2020 would let up at the New Year s stroke of midnight? The speeds and feeds of 2021 already have left us winded. That means accelerating need for sustainability professionals to step up. Plenty of people in this space have spruced up their LinkedIn pages and changed roles in recent months. There s noted activity in the sustainable apparel space, and boards are getting more intentional about inclusivity.
January 21, 2021
The John Deere 8RX Tractor and a 60-foot, 24-row planter. The two pieces of equipment which cost about $750,000 combined incorporate more than 300 sensors and 140 controllers. Courtesy of John Deere
As a not-quite-reformed technology journalist, I’ve attended the annual Consumer Electronics Show (or distance-stalked the news) for more years than I care to remember.
As my colleague Katie Fehrenbacher reported last week, the nation’s biggest trade show became a beacon for automotive players a few years ago. Over the years, it also has become a place to trumpet and debate the benefits and possibilities of artificial intelligence and the internet of things most particularly, the combination of the two.
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