As an individual, I don\u2019t feel like I can do much to help head off the climate crisis.<\/p>\n
In fact, I\u2019m personally making it worse. I try to do my part, of course: I switch off the lights when rooms aren’t being used, I sort my garbage, I\u2019m eating less red meat, I haven\u2019t owned a car in over twenty years, and I vote for people who believe in change.<\/p>\n
But my job requires flying to conferences around the world, so my carbon footprint is worse than 99% of the world\u2019s population.\u00a0I’m writing this in a city that sprang out of nowhere in a desert.<\/p>\n
I believe that human-driven climate change is an existential threat. But it feels hopeless. To channel Greta Thunberg: “Why is nobody DOING ANYTHING?!\u00a0“<\/p>\n
It\u2019s easy to descend into apathy\u2014after all, I\u2019m not personally going to be around to witness most of the worst effects\u2014and the evidence shows that\u00a0I\u2019m not alone<\/a>: most people believe in climate change, but don\u2019t see how they can make a difference.<\/p>\n But I do have one hope: as a representative of a company, I have a chance to do more than I can alone.<\/p>\n I\u2019m told that\u00a0SAP customers generate 87% of total global commerce<\/a>. And SAP is deeply entrenched in most of the worlds most mission-critical but energy-intensive industries such as oil and gas, transportation, and retail.<\/p>\n This means even small changes in energy efficiencies across the business processes handled by SAP systems can make a big difference to the planet.<\/p>\n There\u2019s been a tipping point this year. People are seeing the results of climate change with their own eyes and want to transact with organizations with purpose. But above all, the accountants are now on the hook: new regulations on everything from carbon footprint rules to plastics taxes to labelling transparency mean that sustainability is now a required, auditable part of running organizations.<\/p>\n Every organization I talk to is now taking sustainability seriously. If you help run an SAP system, you can help make the planet a better place.<\/p>\n I find customers are pleasantly surprised by just how many\u00a0sophisticated tools<\/a>\u00a0are already available to make sustainability profitable and profitability sustainable.<\/p>\n Please run, don\u2019t walk, to using them and implementing them!<\/p>\n #sustainability<\/a>\u00a0#innovation<\/a>\u00a0#intelligententerprise<\/a>\u00a0#climatecrisis<\/a>\u00a0#esg<\/a><\/p>\n
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