This month, Adam Green speaks to two green software experts about the environmental implications of code, how businesses should think about software in their ESG strategy and the best practices to building and running green software. Navveen Balani is Chief Technologist at the Technology Sustainability Innovation Group at Accenture, and Ziliang Zong is a Professor at the Computer Science department at Texas State University. Together, they discuss how software can have deleterious impacts on the environment through wasteful and inefficient design and use, the energy costs of sophisticated hardware, and why businesses have yet to fully acknowledge and respond to the challenge of greening IT. As companies look to the metaverse as a new era of the digital revolution, promising ever-increasing computing intensity, it’s crucial to get green software principles embedded. Navveen and Zilliang explore the influential role of CIOs in driving change, and best practices like green-by-design approaches, an IT decarbonisation plan and using software to lower overall commercial power use, especially through tools like AI. They also discuss the work of the Green Software Foundation in introducing standards, benchmarks and performance specifications to help green software development to scale.

To read more about some of the topics discussed in this episode, please click on the following links:

Measuring sustainability. Creating value
In this 2022 report, Accenture drew the following conclusions around sustainability measurement

Uniting Technology and Sustainability
This 2022 study, drawing from a survey of 560 companies with over one billion dollars in revenue, shows how companies with more comprehensive sustainable tech strategies are performing better across the board and presents three key ingredients for success.

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