U.S., Feb. 8 -- Technology already plays a significant role in the sustainability plans of most businesses. It can help to reduce carbon-intensive activities in many ways - from reducing the need to travel to the digitisation of manufacturing and reduction of waste. But technology has its own carbon cost and understanding the factors that influence that is increasingly becoming part of the CSO's role. Simply 'sub-contracting' the responsibility by outsourcing IT to cloud or data centre partners will no longer be enough. Businesses will be accountable not just for the financial and operational decisions they make over the management of IT, but the sustainability impacts of their choice of partner. And those are often more complex than they a...