Essential IT sustainability requirements

As we saw in the previous section, managing your vendors and IT procurement process poorly can introduce significant risk into your IT supply chain. Therefore, it is critical to make a significant step-change to include essential IT sustainability requirements. It is also essential that your IT procurement practices align with overall company sustainability commitments and which IT categories will have the most significant ESG and cost impacts. This may seem overwhelming initially, especially if you start from a blank sheet of paper. Fortunately, there are plenty of resources to draw a wealth of experience from, and simply introducing sustainability certifications from credible ecolabels for IT equipment such as Epeat, TCO Certified, and Energy Star will put you in a significantly better position toward a sustainable IT practice.

Sustainability certifications

The most common ecolabels for IT equipment are as follows:

Epeat

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