by Peter du Toit | Apr 15, 2022 | Carbon Emissions, Climate Emergency, Remote Work
In its technical summary the latest IPCC report on climate change mitigation makes these observations regarding the transportation sector: Meeting climate mitigation goals would require transformative changes in the transport sector. In 2019, direct GHG emissions from...
by Peter du Toit | Apr 9, 2022 | Carbon Emissions, Climate Emergency, Leadership
A discussion on this data should be part of your next leadership meeting agenda. The latest IPCC emissions report card shows we are completely off track and what we have to do next involves “deep, rapid and sustained emissions reductions” if we are to...
by Peter du Toit | Apr 5, 2022 | Carbon Emissions, Climate Emergency, Remote Work
If you have been following me for any amount of time you will know that I have repeatedly spoken about the impact remote working can have on emissions. (For example see these comments in 2018 and this from 2019) Yesterday the IPCC released their Climate Change...
by Peter du Toit | Mar 29, 2022 | Carbon Emissions, Climate Emergency, Future of Work
While the desire to get back to “normal” after 2 years of dealing with this pandemic is completely understandable, we have to be very cognisant of the fact that our pre-pandemic “normal” put us on the trajectory depicted here. Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide The...
by Peter du Toit | Mar 23, 2022 | Hybrid Working, Remote Work
SWAA March 2022 Updates Let’s unpack this data on why return to office (RTO) is desirable to some (Context, most respondents were forced into unplanned remote working, at short notice, because of the pandemic. Most companies had to at very short notice deploy a...