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@PaulDJohnston Climate Change & Tech, Good and Bad Bedfellows QCon London 2020 Climate Change & Tech, Good and Bad Bedfellows Tech, Mapping, Emissions and The Future Paul Johnston Fun Art by JDHancock.com @PaulDJohnston Climate Change

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@PaulDJohnston Climate Change & Tech, Good and Bad Bedfellows QCon London 2020

Climate Change & Tech, Good and Bad Bedfellows

Tech, Mapping, Emissions and The Future

Paul Johnston Fun Art by JDHancock.com

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@PaulDJohnston Climate Change & Tech, Good and Bad Bedfellows QCon London 2020

Climate Change & Tech, Good and Bad Bedfellows

Tech, Mapping, Emissions and The Future

Paul Johnston Fun Art by JDHancock.com

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<PIC OF AMZN/GOOG/MSFT STRIKERS>

Photo and data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Dorian

Hurricane Dorian

  • 185mph winds
  • =1st Strongest Atlantic Storm
  • 70,000 left homeless (Bah.)
  • 60+ dead, 400+ missing
  • $8+ Billion damage
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<PIC OF AMZN/GOOG/MSFT STRIKERS>

Photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Hagibis_(2019) Data: BBC News and Al Jazeera https://twitter.com/Tom___Scott/status/1183408521389445120 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-50037907

Typhoon Hagibis

  • 140mph winds
  • Worst storm in 60 years
  • Almost 1000mm of rain in 24hrs
  • 40 dead, 16 missing, 6m affected
  • Typhoon “season” lasts longer
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<PIC OF AMZN/GOOG/MSFT STRIKERS>

Photo and data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Idai

Cyclone Idai

  • Madagascar, Mozambique,

Malawi, Zimbabwe

  • 125mph winds
  • 2nd Deadliest in Indian Ocean
  • 1300+ dead, 2000+ missing, 3m

affected

  • $2 Billion in damage
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All of these “extreme weather events” happened in 2019

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<PIC OF AMZN/GOOG/MSFT STRIKERS>

Photos and data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Ciara and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Dennis and https://www.ft.com/content/440f4bb6-5276-11ea-8841-482eed0 038b1

Storms Ciara and Dennis

  • February 2020 - 1 week apart
  • >£400m in damage in UK alone
  • Ciara: Cat. 5 “Atmospheric River”

○ “Exceptional”

  • Dennis: Bomb Cyclone
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Data: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/29/brazil-counts-cost-hig hest-recorded-rainfall-110-years Photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kurum%C3%AD_2020-1-24.jpg

Subtropical Storm Kurumi

  • January 2020
  • Highest daily rainfall in Belo

Horizonte in 110 years

  • Flooding and landslides killed 30

and evacuated 2,600 people

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All of these “extreme weather events” happened in 2020

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From: https://skepticalscience.com/Where-is-global-warming-going.html

Climate Change leads to

  • cean warming which leads

to:

  • Stronger storms
  • Slower storms
  • Larger storms
  • More rainfall
  • Moving more slowly

Note: it doesn’t lead to more storms

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Data: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51590080

Wildfires are more likely

  • Rising global temperatures
  • Heatwaves more likely
  • Associated droughts in some

regions

  • Australian wildfires “far worse

than any prediction”

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Data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought_in_Australia#late_2016%E2%80 %93late_2019 and https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-51439175

Australian extremes

  • Record Australian drought
  • Followed by heaviest rainfall in

Sydney for 30 years

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“Extreme Weather” is becoming the new normal

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Paul Johnston CXO Consultant and Advisor Tech and Sustainability Interim CTO Community Energy Director ex-AWS Climate Activist

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/padajo Email: paul@roundaboutlabs.com Twitter: @PaulDJohnston

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medium.com/PaulDJohnston

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“Extreme Weather” is becoming the new normal ...and this is affecting tech too

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Data: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/hurricane-sandy-takes-

  • ut-manhattan-data-centers/

Data Centres taken out by Sandy

  • More than 8 DCs in New York

City

  • Basements flooded
  • Diesel pumps ran out of fuel
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Data: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7x5j8z/the-california-wildfires-knoc ked-a-big-company-website-offline

Wildfires take O’Reilly offline

  • Power outages caused shutdown
  • Building was in evacuation zone
  • Staff had to leave the area
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Climate Change: One more reason to be in the cloud ;)

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But… The IPCC? Paris? 1.5 degrees?

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IPCC:

“Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” Panel that assesses the science related to Climate Change 195 Member Governments

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Paris Agreement:

2015 Aim is to keep the global temperature rise by 2100 to well below 2 degrees* and pursue efforts to limit to 1.5 degrees*

*above pre-industrial temperatures

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IPCC special report

  • n the impacts of

global warming of 1.5°C

October 2018 Includes illustrative pathways for reaching 1.5°C… “12 years” https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/

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So… how are we doing?

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Story: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/climate-crisis-temperature-target-paris- agreement Data: https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/11/1052171

We’re on course for 3.2 degrees

  • Need 7.6% drop per year in

emissions for next 10 years to hit 1.5 degrees

  • UN update February 2020
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Link: https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/11/1052171

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<PIC OF AMZN/GOOG/MSFT STRIKERS>

https://www.greenbiz.com/article/axa-4c-warming-makes-world- uninsurable

4C World “Uninsurable” - AXA

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<PIC OF AMZN/GOOG/MSFT STRIKERS>

https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/larry-fin k-ceo-letter

Major Investors are Divesting from Fossil Fuels

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Climate Change is already here

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Change to our way of life is coming

(although what that change will be…?)

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For many*, it’s already changed

* mainly in the developing world

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But what has this got to do with tech?

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Tech has started to get all “Climate-y”

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But are we on the right side?

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Technology often seems so POSITIVE But sometimes we should probably ask...

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That Mitchell and Webb Look

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“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” Hannah Arendt

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Source: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#ethics

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Often tech people are ethically “Utilitarian” An action should maximise happiness & wellbeing for that person and everyone affected

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Utilitarianism can lead to unintended consequences especially for third parties*

*it’s worth reading some philosophy and ethics

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Utilitarianism: “Kill one to harvest

  • rgans for five”

twitter.com/johnsnolan

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Which is why a shift towards employee activism around Climate Change in tech is notable

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<PIC OF AMZN/GOOG/MSFT STRIKERS>

Photo: https://twitter.com/AMZNforClimate/status/11764965087719505 93

Employees of big companies joined the #ClimateStrike

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<PIC OF AMZN/GOOG/MSFT STRIKERS>

Photo: https://twitter.com/AMZNforClimate/status/11764965087719505 93

A typical AWS employee banner at the #ClimateStrike

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Data centres produce about as much greenhouse gas as aviation

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Aviation is bad!

✈ LHR → JFK → LHR More than 3 tonnes CO2 per person

Photo: twitter.com/profraywills/status/1046231254075465728

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Cloud is more efficient than Data Centres

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Jevons Paradox

Efficient Clouds means more usage So Cloud must be powered in a Sustainable way

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Example: AI

Easier to create models so we make more use of them and more of them… but the carbon footprint is not small

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/6136 30/training-a-single-ai-model-can-emit-as- much-carbon-as-five-cars-in-their-lifetimes/

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Quick Aside: AI and ethics

China is using AI to regulate citizens to limit movement due to coronavirus

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/busin ess/china-coronavirus-surveillance.html

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Quick aside: Efficient DCs

Jessie Frazelle wrote a great blog about this last week

https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/power-to-the

  • people/
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So how good are the major cloud providers at being “green”?

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Good News: Google Cloud and Azure are pretty sustainable (100% offset) Bad News: AWS are not (50% “in 2018”)

Data centre ethics whitepaper 2018 updated 2020 bit.ly/2024wp

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https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/01/16/microsoft-will-be-car bon-negative-by-2030/ https://www.geekwire.com/2020/jeff-bezos-launches-10b-earth-fu nd-support-efforts-address-climate-change/

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https://earther.gizmodo.com/more-than-350-employees-risk-their-jobs-to-call-out-ama-1841243939

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Greenwash!

Amazon are in the Top 200 emitters of GHG worldwide

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Greenwash!?

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Tech has some real problems it needs to solve

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Offsets

(make all the bad climate stuff magically disappear right?)

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We have a global “Carbon Budget” and we have to REDUCE EMISSIONS BY A LOT And almost certainly take Carbon out of the atmosphere too

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https://www.carbonbrief.org/unep-1-5c-climate-target-slipping-out-of-reach

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Offsets are a leaky planetary patch while we try to come up with a permanent fix

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So… what can

I

do?

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More “extreme weather” events… Big companies being “green”… “Cloud” and Carbon Budgets... This is all going to “change the landscape”

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medium.com/PaulDJohnston

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Waste Hierarchy Reduce Reuse Recycle

Most Important Least Important

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Waste Hierarchy Don’t build it! Reduce Reuse Recycle

Most Important Least Important

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Sources of emissions*

Electricity 25% Agriculture 24% Manufacturing 21% Transportation 14% Buildings 6%

*approximately

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Sources of emissions*

Electricity 25% Agriculture 24% Manufacturing 21% Transportation 14% Buildings 6%

*approximately

Tech!

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More “extreme weather” events… Big companies being “green”… “Cloud” and Carbon Budgets... This is all going to “change the landscape”

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So what useful tools are there?

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Wardley Maps A useful strategy tool Free book online

medium.com/wardleymaps

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Let’s have a nice “Cup of Tea” and think about this...

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Genesis Custom Built Product (+Rental) Commodity (+Utility)

Evolution

Invisible Visible

Value Chain

Uncharted Industrialised

BUSINESS PUBLIC CUP OF TEA CUP TEA HOT WATER WATER POWER KETTLE STAFF

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Genesis Custom Built Product (+Rental) Commodity (+Utility)

Evolution

Invisible Visible

Value Chain

Uncharted Industrialised

BUSINESS PUBLIC CUP OF TEA CUP TEA HOT WATER WATER POWER KETTLE STAFF

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Note: Emissions are highly abstracted in a mature oil-based economy

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“Decoupling”

The term decoupling refers to breaking the link between “environmental bads” and “economic goods.” Decoupling environmental pressures from economic growth is one of the main objectives of the OECD Environmental Strategy for the First Decade of the 21st Century, adopted by OECD Environment Ministers in 2001.

http://www.oecd.org/environment/indicators-modelling-outlooks/1933638.pdf

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Highly commodifed Low perceived value Hard to displace

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If emissions are “baked in”, can you do anything about it?

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Genesis Custom Built Product (+Rental) Commodity (+Utility)

Evolution

Invisible Visible

Value Chain

Uncharted Industrialised

BUSINESS PUBLIC CUP OF TEA CUP TEA HOT WATER WATER POWER KETTLE STAFF

+£0.05 +£0.15 +£0.05 +£0.20 +£0.10 +£0.15 +£0.05 +£0.55 +£0.05

START WITH… FINANCE METRICS

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Genesis Custom Built Product (+Rental) Commodity (+Utility)

Evolution

Invisible Visible

Value Chain

Uncharted Industrialised

BUSINESS PUBLIC CUP OF TEA CUP TEA HOT WATER WATER POWER KETTLE STAFF

EMISSIONS: Power

+8

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Genesis Custom Built Product (+Rental) Commodity (+Utility)

Evolution

Invisible Visible

Value Chain

Uncharted Industrialised

BUSINESS PUBLIC CUP OF TEA CUP TEA HOT WATER WATER POWER KETTLE STAFF

EMISSIONS: Single Use Cup

+8 +2

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Genesis Custom Built Product (+Rental) Commodity (+Utility)

Evolution

Invisible Visible

Value Chain

Uncharted Industrialised

BUSINESS PUBLIC CUP OF TEA CUP TEA HOT WATER WATER POWER KETTLE STAFF

EMISSIONS: Tea

+8 +2 +5

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Genesis Custom Built Product (+Rental) Commodity (+Utility)

Evolution

Invisible Visible

Value Chain

Uncharted Industrialised

BUSINESS PUBLIC CUP OF TEA CUP TEA HOT WATER WATER POWER KETTLE STAFF

EMISSIONS: Staff

+8 +2 +5 +0.5

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Genesis Custom Built Product (+Rental) Commodity (+Utility)

Evolution

Invisible Visible

Value Chain

Uncharted Industrialised

BUSINESS PUBLIC CUP OF TEA CUP TEA HOT WATER WATER POWER KETTLE STAFF

EMISSIONS: Water

+8 +2 +5 +0.5 +1

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Genesis Custom Built Product (+Rental) Commodity (+Utility)

Evolution

Invisible Visible

Value Chain

Uncharted Industrialised

BUSINESS PUBLIC CUP OF TEA CUP TEA HOT WATER WATER POWER KETTLE STAFF

EMISSIONS: Kettle CAPEX

+8 +2 +5 +0.5 +1 +8.03

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Genesis Custom Built Product (+Rental) Commodity (+Utility)

Evolution

Invisible Visible

Value Chain

Uncharted Industrialised

BUSINESS PUBLIC CUP OF TEA CUP TEA HOT WATER WATER POWER KETTLE STAFF

EMISSIONS METRICS

+8 +2 +5 +0.5 +1 +8.03 +9.03 +16.53

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Genesis Custom Built Product (+Rental) Commodity (+Utility)

Evolution

Invisible Visible

Value Chain

Uncharted Industrialised

BUSINESS PUBLIC CUP OF TEA CUP TEA HOT WATER WATER POWER KETTLE STAFF

RENEWABLE POWER

+0 +2 +5 +0.5 +1 +0.03 +1.03 +8.53

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Genesis Custom Built Product (+Rental) Commodity (+Utility)

Evolution

Invisible Visible

Value Chain

Uncharted Industrialised

BUSINESS PUBLIC CUP OF TEA CUP TEA HOT WATER WATER POWER KETTLE STAFF

REUSABLE CUPS +DISHWASHER

+0 +0.25 +5 +0.5 +1 +0.03 +1.03 +6.78

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Genesis Custom Built Product (+Rental) Commodity (+Utility)

Evolution

Invisible Visible

Value Chain

Uncharted Industrialised

BUSINESS PUBLIC CUP OF TEA CUP TEA HOT WATER WATER POWER KETTLE STAFF

VERY EFFICIENT KETTLE

+0 +0.25 +5 +0.5 +0.5 +0.01 +0.51 +6.26

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Genesis Custom Built Product (+Rental) Commodity (+Utility)

Evolution

Invisible Visible

Value Chain

Uncharted Industrialised

BUSINESS PUBLIC CUP OF TEA CUP TEA HOT WATER WATER POWER KETTLE STAFF

ETHICALLY SOURCED TEA + LOOSE LEAF + STRAINER

+0 +0.25 +3 +0.5 +0.5 +0.01 +0.51 +4.26

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Genesis Custom Built Product (+Rental) Commodity (+Utility)

Evolution

Invisible Visible

Value Chain

Uncharted Industrialised

BUSINESS PUBLIC CUP OF TEA CUP TEA HOT WATER WATER POWER KETTLE STAFF

FREE PUBLIC TRANSPORT TICKETS FOR STAFF + ORDER AUTOMATION

+0 +0.25 +3 +0.25 +0.5 +0.01 +0.51 +4.01

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Genesis Custom Built Product (+Rental) Commodity (+Utility)

Evolution

Invisible Visible

Value Chain

Uncharted Industrialised

BUSINESS PUBLIC CUP OF TEA CUP TEA HOT WATER WATER POWER KETTLE STAFF

“PLANT A TREE” TEA

+0 +0.25 +3 +0.25 +0.5 +0.01 +0.51

  • 0.99

TREE PLANTING ORG

  • 5
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Genesis Custom Built Product (+Rental) Commodity (+Utility)

Evolution

Invisible Visible

Value Chain

Uncharted Industrialised

BUSINESS PUBLIC CUP OF TEA CUP TEA HOT WATER WATER POWER KETTLE STAFF

BUT... IT’S AN OFFSET

+0 +0.25 +3 +0.25 +0.5 +0.01 +0.51

TREE PLANTING ORG

  • 5

+4.01

PLANET

  • 5
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Genesis Custom Built Product (+Rental) Commodity (+Utility)

Evolution

Invisible Visible

Value Chain

Uncharted Industrialised

BUSINESS PUBLIC CUP OF TEA CUP TEA HOT WATER WATER POWER KETTLE STAFF

ANY “+” IS STILL GENERATING EMISSIONS

+0 +0.25 +3 +0.25 +0.5 +0.01 +0.51

TREE PLANTING ORG

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+4.01

PLANET

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Genesis Custom Built Product (+Rental) Commodity (+Utility)

Evolution

Invisible Visible

Value Chain

Uncharted Industrialised

BUSINESS PUBLIC CUP OF TEA CUP TEA HOT WATER WATER POWER KETTLE STAFF

EMISSIONS REDUCTION METRICS ~= -1

+0 +0.25 +3 +0.25 +0.5 +0.01 +0.51

TREE PLANTING ORG

  • 5

+4.01

PLANET

  • 5
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Genesis Custom Built Product (+Rental) Commodity (+Utility)

Evolution

Invisible Visible

Value Chain

Uncharted Industrialised

BUSINESS PUBLIC CUP OF TEA CUP TEA HOT WATER WATER POWER KETTLE STAFF

EMISSIONS METRICS BEFORE

+8 +2 +5 +0.5 +1 +8.03 +9.03 +16.53

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Genesis Custom Built Product (+Rental) Commodity (+Utility)

Evolution

Invisible Visible

Value Chain

Uncharted Industrialised

BUSINESS PUBLIC CUP OF TEA CUP TEA HOT WATER WATER POWER KETTLE STAFF

EMISSIONS REDUCTION AFTER

+0 +0.25 +3 +0.25 +0.5 +0.01 +0.51

TREE PLANTING ORG

  • 5

+4.01

PLANET

  • 5
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What about the real world?

(It’s not all “cups of tea” is it!)

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What about choosing a cloud provider?

(if all compute was equal… which it isn’t in cloud… see “serverless”)

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Genesis Custom Built Product (+Rental) Commodity (+Utility)

Evolution

Invisible Visible

Value Chain

Uncharted Industrialised

COMPANY TECH PRODUCTS POWER GOOGLE

CLOUD CHOICE?

AWS AZURE

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Maps are useful for identifying and mitigating emissions Maps are never perfect (enemy of good) but are meant to start conversations

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Downside: hard to report on your own and your supply chain emissions

(the “Cup of tea” numbers are not real!)

AWS does not give you emissions so you can’t even offset

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Reducing Carbon in the Digital Realm @mrchrisadams

Stripe’s climate reporting page, from 2018

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But what about my code and systems?

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Most climate friendly tech solution? No tech at all

(reduce - reuse - recycle)

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Turn off your unused instances and servers

(reduce - reuse - recycle)

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Stop building “climate apps” and worrying about “code efficiency” (unless it’s terrible)

(reduce - reuse - recycle)

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Code like it’s 1985! Constraints are not bad

(reduce - reuse - recycle)

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Go serverless

(reduce - reuse - recycle)

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Sustainability metrics

Do you know how much energy your project will use

  • ver its lifecycle?

(reduce - reuse - recycle)

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Emissions

Scope 1, 2 and 3 Limited data on emissions Many sectors still estimating

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But what about Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery?

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Climate Change is becoming one of the most important risk factors for the C-Level But not for Disaster Recovery professionals

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Most Disaster Recovery is about planning for “exceptional” events Climate Change is changing “exceptional”

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As the O’Reilly scenario shows, it isn’t just about extreme weather What about impacts

  • n employees and

families?

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Climate Risks are much more than simply future sea level rise and heating How resilient is your

  • rganisation?
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Wardley Mapping is a really good tool for seeing externalities like Climate Change

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The biggest climate risk is capital risk

See BlackRock

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Most sustainability professionals don’t “talk tech” Go and be their best friend

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Link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/firms-ign

  • ring-climate-crisis-bankrupt-mark-carney-bank-england-govern
  • r

Ignoring the Climate Crisis isn’t an option...

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Climate Change is changing our world: The new normal

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Just because we work in tech doesn’t make us automatically “good”

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Get involved Learn It’s going to take all of us

https://climateaction.tech/

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Paul Johnston CXO Consultant and Advisor Tech and Sustainability Interim CTO Community Energy Director ex-AWS Climate Activist

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/padajo Email: paul@roundaboutlabs.com Twitter: @PaulDJohnston