Former Facebook Executive Forms Organization to Help Employees Push Employers on Climate Matters

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Bill Weihl, former director of sustainability at pioneer social media network Facebook Inc. (FB) has formed an organization going by the name Climate Voice which he will be using as a tool to help employees of big companies propel their employers to do more towards fight against climate change.

Weihl says Climate Voice will propel companies to abide by the 2015 Paris Agreement by reducing emissions during their production processes. He also believes governments should be leading in doing anything possible to maintain global warming levels below 2 degrees Celsius in their respective countries.

Beyond their own operations, however, many companies have refrained from advocating for broader solutions needed to avoid a global catastrophe,” said Weihl.

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,” added Weihl.

Weihl, who joined Facebook on 2012 and left on 2018, said Climate Voice will launch as a no paid group, however, following its launching, it will raise finances and hire staff that will be organizing, mobilizing and amplifying climate activism among employees in the tech industry.

Weihl accuses these leading tech companies of selling fossil fuels producing technology to the oil and gas industry, technology which is not climatic friendly.

Similar views are held by Bruce Hahne, who earlier in the month resigned as a technical program manager at Google. In a public letter, Hahne criticizes the search giant for selling the technology to the oil and gas industry.

We’re dying by fire, and the Google Cloud oil and gas sales vertical is pouring on the gasoline,” read Hahne’s letter.

His concerns in the letter seemed to reflect those also raised by employees at Microsoft Corp (MSFT) and Amazon Inc. (AMZN).

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