Even ESG professionals would concede it’s been an up-and-down and at – at times – unfathomable 12 months for the channel’s sustainable transformation efforts.
As IT Channel Oxygen’s Second Life Campaign highlighted, the industry is upping its game on circularity, with carbon reduction efforts also continuing to gather pace.
But vendor walk backs on ESG and DEI this year (not to mention the controversy surrounding SBTI’s potential U-turn on carbon credits) show progression on this topic will never be linear.
IT Channel Oxygen has charted every up and down along the way.
Here we round up ten key stories that tell the story of the IT channel’s year in sustainability.
10. boxxe’s B Corp brush off
The year started with a bang when boxxe CEO Phil Doye told IT Channel Oxygen “I think we may be the first company that’s passed its B Corp audit and has chosen not to go ahead with the certification”.
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Billed as “the most rigorous, comprehensive and rewarding process your business will undertake”, B Corp is designed to measure a company’s “entire social and environmental performance”.
But having in 2021 set a goal of becoming the first UK IT reseller B Corp, boxxe opted not to proceed with it last Autumn – despite passing its audit.
“There was one area of the process that we fundamentally could not agree on, which is why we chose not to proceed,” Doye explained.
“It has meant that we have embedded a lot of the things that were needed [to pass it],” he added.
B Corp is still only held by a smattering of UK resellers and MSPs, with Zenzero one of the latest to bag the certification in September.
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