THE SUSTAINABILITY INTERVIEW
Cloud allows sustainability data to be surfaced and elevated in the same way as commercial and financial data, enabling advanced analysis, costed use cases and decision‐ready insights. That shift helps sustainability teams move beyond“ admiring the problem” – endlessly analysing without acting – towards concrete actions and investments that can be justified with clear business value. Yet, Hilary is careful to position technology as an enabler and accelerator, not the answer in itself; the real starting point is still working backwards from the problem or opportunity that matters most.
“ We ' re really excited about agentic AI and agents, where your AI starts to execute tasks on your behalf – with the appropriate guardrails, of course,” Hilary says.“ It transforms a whole sustainability team in terms of focus and capabilities. Rather than reporting on what ' s happened, you ' re able to take a control tower view of understanding what ' s going to happen next.”
As more routine tasks are automated, this shift from execution to strategy means leadership becomes even more critical: setting direction, holding the vision and deciding what should be optimised so sustainability teams can focus on shaping the organisation’ s future, including emerging areas like nature and biodiversity. aws. amazon. com