Sustainability
WHY SUSTAINABILITY WILL BE EVEN HIGHER ON THE AGENDA IN 2025
David Watts, regional vice president and managing director, UK and Ireland, TD Synnex, explains why he thinks carbon reduction plans and sustainable options will continue to grow in importance to IT buyers.
T
here are two main reasons why sustainability will be even more important this year than it has
been in any other. First, it’s an issue that really matters. In January, the European Copernicus climate service said that 2024 was the first calendar year to pass the symbolic threshold of 1.5aC in warming, as well as the world’s hottest on record. Te facts simply can’t be ignored and all of us have a responsibility – in my view – to try and reduce our carbon footprint and to prevent further global heating. Making sure that sustainability stays high on business and individual agendas is something we should all be doing. Te second reason sustainability is
going to be even more prevalent in 2025 is that end -user organisations and buyers are going to asking about it much more. Tey will want to know about the impact that the products they are considering will have on the environment
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– and indeed, what carbon impact the manufacturing, production and shipment of those products have had.
Tough questions Tese are not easy questions to answer. Te fact is that, while many computer manufacturers have done a lot to make their own organisations more sustainable, they have made less progress in making their products more appealing in terms of adopting more sustainable manufacturing processes and using recycled components, for example. Tey have drastically reduced or eliminated plastic packaging from their products, and many have started to use recycled plastic for casings and other components. But in terms of using fewer new components and rare-earth metals in their products, there is still some work to do – and it will take time to redesign products and retool production lines.
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