corporate climate commitments

[Aseem Prakash]

Hello friends:

Here are some recent commentaries on business attempts at climate leadership. For example, Amazon announced its latest climate investment, the purchase of the right to rename Seattle's Key Arena as the Climate Pledge Arena. The arena renaming announcement comes at an interesting time. Early this week, Amazon released its 2020 Sustainability Report, where it noted a 15% increase in emissions since last year. Moreover, Amazon is getting bad press on COVID-19 and the firing of some employees affiliated with Amazon Employees for Climate Justice. So, what to make of Amazon's renaming exercise?

Amazon’s Climate Pledge Arena: Virtue signaling or a game-changer?.

Amazon pledges $2 billion climate fund, as its carbon emissions grow 

Unilever’s climate plan: Emissions from supply chain and consumers are the real challenge

Have banks really become climate advocates? Or are they just ‘climate washing?’

Comments welcome. Please email me directly.

Best,

Aseem

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Aseem Prakash
Professor, Department of Political Science
Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences
Founding Director, UW Center for Environmental Politics
University of Washington, Seattle
aseemprakash.net

[Wil Burns]

For those you interested in commitments to “carbon negative” or “carbon neutral” corporate commitments that have a negative emissions technologies component, we have constructed a new tracker: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vf--uXsf6fo7MuNpPya2Kz82Dxte0hHgtOXimgpRA3c/edit#gid=0

 

We will update the tracker on a regular basis and always welcome suggestions of additional corporations to add.  We also plan to develop metrics to assess the integrity of said claims.

 

Wil

 

 

 

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