Enterprise technology has always enabled companies in their business and transformations, and it has an outsized role to play in helping companies meet their carbon reduction goals in at least three ways:

• Enabling the transition: New applications will be critical to help companies monitor their total greenhouse gas emissions and track their progress toward meeting reduction targets.
• Accelerating the pace of change: By increasing efficiency across a company’s operations as well as its interactions with suppliers, enterprise technology can help reduce emissions across the value chain.
• Rethinking enterprise technology solutions: Finally, the enterprise technology function will need to rethink some of its basic operating principles to reduce the emissions of its own operations.