Accenture Collaborates with Toshiba to Drive Green Transformation Across the Enterprise
The teaming will assist purchasers obtain greenhouse fuel discount objectives, initially specializing in consulting providers
TOKYO; Sep. 26, 2022 — Accenture (NYSE: ACN) is collaborating with Toshiba (OTCMKTS: TOSYY) to present consulting providers to help inexperienced transformation (GX) efforts of the corporations’ purchasers. The collaboration will goal industries with excessive greenhouse fuel emissions and different organizations with pressing wants to enhance power effectivity.
Accenture will work with Toshiba to design and develop new sustainability providers to drive emission reductions, as well as to methods and options for carbon neutrality. Accenture will leverage its expertise growing circular-economy business fashions and implementing sustainable provide chain processes, similar to inexperienced procurement, in addition to utilizing cloud and different expertise options from its associate ecosystem.
Toshiba brings with it a sturdy steady of current carbon-neutrality applied sciences and providers to the collaboration, together with renewable power methods, digital power administration methods, renewable energy-derived hydrogen options, and carbon dioxide seize and restoration services.
Toshiba is aiming to obtain carbon neutrality all through its whole worth chain by fiscal 2050. It has set a preliminary purpose for fiscal 2030 of chopping greenhouse fuel emissions by 70% from fiscal 2019 ranges.
The mixture of Toshiba’s strategies to cut back greenhouse fuel emissions and Accenture’s experience and capabilities in sustainability will lead to vendor-neutral choices to help purchasers’ emission discount priorities. Accenture and Toshiba will evolve and refine their inexperienced transformation business mannequin primarily based on market traits and shopper wants.
Goro Yanase, consultant government officer, company senior government vp and COO at Toshiba stated, “We are pleased to launch GX consulting services with Accenture. Toshiba Group provides technologies and services that contribute to solving social issues through our wide range of businesses, guided by our basic commitment — Committed to People, Committed to the Future. We are now building on this by developing capabilities and solutions that will contribute to the realization of carbon neutrality and a circular economy. Working with Accenture, we hope to further expand our business and contribute to the realization of a carbon neutral society by providing consulting services that support companies with proposals extending from planning through to the achievement of carbon neutrality goals.”
Shinji Igarashi, senior managing director at Accenture in Japan, stated, “Our work with Toshiba demonstrates our commitment to embed sustainability into everything we do. We are focused on helping companies create business value and also reduce their carbon footprint.”
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