Here is today’s sustainable IT services and climate tech news, research and analysis -- written for technology partners, green IT service providers, CIOs, chief sustainability officers (CSOs) and climate accounting professionals.
A. Sustainable IT, Talent, Partnerships and Green Tech Alliances
1. CSRD Compliance - IT Services and Software Partnership:Â Deloitte and Workiva have introduced four new software accelerators to help customers fulfill the European Union's (EU) Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). The new accelerators provide organizations with tools to help enhance double materiality review, calculate financed emissions, conduct regulatory gap assessments and track related workflows, the companies said.
2. Amazon - Renewable Energy: Amazon is investing in three new utility-scale wind farms in Greece, as part of the company's largest renewable energy deal in the country to date, Amazon said.
3. Partnership - EV Equipment Recycling: XCharge North America and Grensol Group are partnering to explore recycling strategies for EV charging cables and modules. Grensol will tap  Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to develop an industrial recycling solution for such equipment.Â
4. Air Quality Software: Google has unveiled Air View+, which displays real-time hyperlocal air quality information in Google Maps for users across India.
5. Layoffs - Electric Vehicles (EVs): Ford layoffs will impact almost 4,000 employees in Europe over the next three years, about 14% of its workforce in the region, as the carmaker faces slowing demand for electric vehicles and rising competition from China, CNN reported.
B. Sustainability M&A, Climate Tech Investments, Funding and Green IT Business Launches
1. Complete M&A List: Here's our database of all M&A deals involving green IT and renewable energy buyers, sellers and investors.
C. Regional and Global Sustainability Policies and News
1. United States - Clean Hydrogen Funding: The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded up to $2.2 billion to centers on the Gulf Coast and in the Midwest to develop hydrogen, an emerging source of energy that is expensive to produce using renewable power, Reuters reported.
2. COP29 - Financing Debate: Division and discontent spilled into the open at COP29 on November 21, Reuters reported, sparked by a proposal for a new global finance deal that offered two vastly different options and left no one happy as the closing deadline neared.
3. COP29 - Tourism: More than 50 governments have signed a U.N. declaration to make tourism more climate friendly worldwide, Reuters reported.
4. Greece - Climate Finance: Greece will sign a deal with the European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) to set up a fund that will help its tourism-reliant islands wean off fossil fuel and reduce power costs, Reuters reported.
5. Singapore - Sustainability Tools: The Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore (SEAS) has unveiled DigiLeap, a marketplace that matches sustainability projects to the right partners. SEAS developed DigiLeap with KPMG.
D. Sustainable IT and Green Technology Conference Calendar
- COP29 (November 11-24, Baku, Azerbaijan)
- Microsoft Ignite 2024Â (November 18-22, Chicago)
- Europe Supply Chain Decarbonization and Sustainability Summit (November 26-27, Frankfurt, Germany)
- London EV Show (November 26-28, London, United Kingdom)
- London Climate Tech Show 2024Â (November 27-28, London, United Kingdom)
- Complete Calendar of Sustainability Conferences
E. Previous Updates & Future News
- Future Updates: If you have news to share then please email me the details.
- Did You Miss Yesterday's Daily Update?: Here is our previous sustainable IT, climate tech and renewable energy news for technology partners.
