LEADING Sustainability

In this quarterly review, the Capgemini Research Institute enables leaders to identify the strategic imperatives for the future of business, and the society in which it operates. We dedicated this edition to what is widely considered to be today’s most pressing issue for not only businesses, but humanity as a whole – climate change and the actions we must take to reduce its effects. We specifically looked at the role of climate technology – looking at ways to transform the way we live and do business through adopting and adapting, innovating, inventing, and embracing technology and sustainable practices.

The reality for most professional services organizations engaged in supporting their clients’ business transformations is that the greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction impact that they can have with their clients can potentially be hundreds of times their own operational footprints. Created in collaboration with Forum for the Future, this report seeks to stimulate an important debate about how professional services companies and other organizations working to deliver sustainable outcomes for their clients can meaningfully measure these impacts. It introduces the GHG Impact Methodology for calculating the GHG emissions either during the design phase or at the end of a project, empowering organizations to optimize business projects and maximize their sustainability impact.