Employees at tech firms have objected to selling cloud services to Big Oil, Bill Weihl says
San Francisco — Facebook’s former sustainability chief has launched an organisation to help employees at big companies press their bosses for more aggressive policies to fight climate change.
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 organisation, ClimateVoice. “When it's an issue that might be really important for society but doesn't directly affect them, by and large most companies are silent most of the time,” said Weihl, who left Facebook in 2018.
Workers have become a key constituency in the climate change debate, particularly at the biggest tech companies. Microsoft and Amazon announced more ambitious emissions targets after employees ultimately made their concerns publicly known.
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