CIOs Meeting ESG Commitments Must Go Beyond Reducing Carbon Footprint

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives and investments are growing in importance and starting to significantly influence the marketplace, particularly for services and products. Almost every large company in the world now has an ESG agenda, comprising CEO and leadership team formal commitments to their boards and other stakeholders. Those commitments now are moving down in the organization to the different functional heads, including the CIO, for IT’s share of the responsibility for meeting the company’s commitments.