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The tech industry today is managing a complex range of sustainability and human rights issues.
These include:
- Materials and energy consumption.
- E-waste.
- Ethical development and use of artificial intelligence (AI).
- Algorithmic bias and discrimination.
- User privacy and security.
- Illegal and harmful online content, such as hate speech and disinformation.
Many tech companies are already taking steps to embed just and sustainable business strategies into their products, operations, and supply chains. Doing so can reduce their negative impacts on the environment and society while simultaneously driving competitive advantage and market value.
Leading tech companies are going one step further in a few key areas. They are integrating human rights-based approaches across the technology value chain, and they are also seeking innovative ways to deploy their own digital products and services to accelerate and expand sustainability for themselves and other stakeholders, like improved product access for a diverse customer base or more energy-efficient operations for suppliers. From leveraging data processing products to speed up efforts to achieve net-zero GHG emissions to utilizing digital tolls to eradicate human trafficking, leading tech companies are deploying their resources and core competencies in unique and powerful ways.
