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10 stories that tell the IT channel’s year in sustainability

These scoops tell the story of the UK IT channel's sustainable transformation over the last 12 months

Oxygen staff by Oxygen staff
18 December 2024
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10 stories that tell the IT channel’s year in sustainability
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4. Long-term targets in the long grass

Steve Brazier
Steve Brazier

The IT industry has “made a huge mistake” by favouring meaningless, long-term sustainability targets over short-term action, Canalys Founder Steve Brazier asserted in October.

In his opening keynote at Canalys Forums EMEA in Berlin, Brazier urged those present to set short-term goals on ESG, “whatever the consultants tell you”.

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While setting 2050 net zero targets may be commendable and indeed necessary, without accompanying short-term action it amounts to kicking the can down the road to future leaders, Brazier intimated.

“We’ve made a huge mistake, which is that all the big companies now have to write corporate sustainability reports [where they] make 20-year projections about how their businesses develop,” the Informa Fellow said.

“We don’t know if our businesses will exist in three years or five years.”

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