- The foundation of policy and program level initiatives has been firmly established.
- Sustainability presents a unique opportunity to create a lasting positive impact for future generations.
- He says that the time for concrete activities is now and technology can empower businesses to become sustainable.
India is on a remarkable growth path and has rightfully linked sustainability with digital inclusion, the CEO of SAP said.
Speaking from Germany for the sixth iteration of the Global Technology Summit, Christian Klein said that the approach of competitive federalism in India is notable and replicable.
“You cannot manage what you cannot measure, and digital technologies play a crucial role. The foundation of policy and programme level initiatives has been firmly established. Now technology can catalyse their implementation and true value,” he said.
India’s Prime Minister Modi, at this year 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, shared a five-point programme to combat climate change, achieving 500 gigabytes of clean energy capacity by 2030 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2070.
“The unique initiative of the Sustainable Development Goal index in India is a crowd breaking path to ensure measurement and monitoring at national and sub-national levels and it is also a testament of what we at SAP strongly believe,” Klein said.
Moreover, he said that sustainability presents a unique opportunity to create a lasting positive impact for future generations.
Digital transformation
“We all need to work together to accelerate the transformation of our economies, deal with the impact of the climate change we have already created and bend the curve on global emissions. The time for concrete activities is now and technology can empower businesses to become sustainable, inclusive, and successful,” he said.
Nine out of 10 warehouses globally are running on SAP and are powering most of the world’s most critical and energy-intensive processes.
“We help our customers become intelligent, networked, and sustainable enterprises. At SAP we lead by example through our sustainable business operations, for instance by becoming carbon neutral in 2023 or moving to a fully emission-free car fleet by 2030. And even more important, we lead as an enabler helping our customers to manage their green line together with top and bottom line,” Klein said.
They can make climate protection “measurable and promote sustainable business practices” across their entire value chain by tracking their end-to-end carbon footprint to ensure diversity, inclusion and the protection of human rights, he said.
“For sure, sustainability is one of the defining issues of our lifetime, and it is at the core of what we do at SAP,” he said.