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Thank you for this thoughtful piece, @developingjen. We worked hard on the #AMZNclimate open letter, and I loved reading where we could take it even further.
"The opportunity for the technology industry to truly lead on the climate crisis is immense." YES!
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Respectfully, @developingjen, climate justice was essential in how we thought about the letter, and we wrote about it very intentionally. It didn't make it in your piece, but understanding climate's disparate impacts on BIPOC is imperative to any plan addressing the crisis.
"We need serious action on climate. Now, across the board. Tech companies in particular are well positioned to lead the way... A handful of brave Amazon employees have fired a first shot. It’s time for the rest of the industry to follow suit."
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POLITICAL LEVERAGE "Additionally, the size of [big tech] operations gives them leverage with local and state policy makers: they have the ability to make climate aligned policy demands in return for establishing offices and data centers, which drive local economic development."
Leverage Products and Services "There is an absolutely massive opportunity to tap the products we interact with everyday to help us collectively address climate change... "Technology platforms have the potential...to shift individual behavior to align with a sustainable future."
"What if big tech allocated some of their best AI talent to climate change? Or their unparallelled computing power? Together, the top 5 tech companies alone hold more than $650B in cash reserves. How companies invest and donate their cash is another important area for inclusion."
Ooooh, I love this. "Imagine if Amazon repurposed its marketplace to make sustainability easy and convenient. Shipment Zero is important. But, Amazon’s platform is where the biggest opportunity lies."
It’s an important point, you’re right I should have had that in the summary bullets, I’ll add it. The reason it’s not in the framework is that it’s in a different set of vectors — the framework outlines things a company does that it can do differently or assets it can leverage.
Vs the different categories of climate action — ie decatbonization, climate justice, carbon capture, geo engineering, climate adaptation / resilience. I would put justice in that separate set of areas the framework maps to. If that makes sense.
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