YNTR: Ex-Facebook Exec Starts Group to Help Employees Push Companies on Climate

You Need to Read the Financial Post’s Ex-Facebook Exec Starts Group to Help Employees Push Companies on Climate  by Dan Levine (Reuters)

Ex-Facebook and Google sustainability chief Bill Weihl has announced plans for ClimateVoice to support employees asking their employers to do more about climate. Progress made at Amazon and Microsoft suggests this approach works. ClimateVoice will also advocate for legislative changes at the state and local levels.

Hundreds of companies have committed to reducing emissions in their own operations to be in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement, in which governments aim to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius.

 

Beyond their own operations, however, many companies have refrained from advocating for broader solutions needed to avoid a global catastrophe, said Bill Weihl, who led sustainability efforts at Facebook and Google and will head the new organization, ClimateVoice.

 

Employees at tech companies have objected to selling cloud services to Big Oil, and companies are reticent to exert lobbying influence on behalf of specific legislation.

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