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How can you reap the benefits of digital tools while minimising your environmental impact? This blog post shows how to be more sustainable through conscious use and simple adaptations. Learn how sustainable digital practices can reduce the environmental footprint while promoting efficiency and longevity of technologies.

Sustainability in IT is no longer a niche topic. More and more IT managers are making a public commitment to reducing the environmental impact of the IT for which they are responsible. This blog post provides an overview of specific aspects that should not be missing from a holistic green IT strategy.

Sustainability is crucial for the long-term success of companies. ESG factors have become a key evaluation criterion for companies and investors. In my blog post, I show why taking ESG factors into account is not only ethically but also financially relevant. A holistic ESG approach not only promotes the growth and stability of companies but also has a positive impact on society.

Green coding is one of the top trends in software development in 2024. But what does green coding actually mean? I will present criteria catalogues for sustainable software development and make my suggestions about what really matters in this blog post.

Responsible travelling, a climate-friendly diet and sustainable living are all things that you can picture. But what about our digital lives? Does it really make a difference from an environmental perspective if you delete old e-mails or enable dark mode on your smartphone? You can find the answers in this blog post.

Sustainability has taken on a much larger role in the insurance industry. This is due in no small measure to the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) that requires companies that meet certain financial criteria to provide detailed sustainability reports. Active sustainability is a top priority of adesso, particularly when it comes to the insurance sector. We are working on making our services more sustainable and have partnered with the German Sustainability Network (GSN), for example, to provide our customers with even better support in the area of sustainability. I will explore the partnership and what it entails in this blog post.

The life cycle assessment of digital solutions reveals that client devices are responsible for a significant portion of the environmental impact of these solutions. In our guidelines for concept developers and designers, we at adesso have laid out ways in which the digital design process can help reduce their environmental impact. I will show you how sustainable digital design works in this blog post.

Sustainable IT is a question of software quality. Excellent software is sustainable and has as little negative impact on preserving a habitable environment as possible. In this blog post, we will look at what sustainability as a testable requirement in software quality assurance means and how we implement it.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has started receiving bad publicity since Midjourney and ChatGPT came on to the scene. Not only are the ethical and economic implications of large-scale AI models the subject of much discussion, concerns about their environmental impact are getting louder, too. With that in mind, I will use this blog post to explore the question of how sustainable AI really is and – spoiler alert – what we need to do to make AI more sustainable. You will also learn why training the models is not the biggest problem from an environmental standpoint.