Text by Zoe Rasbash Illustration by Esther Lalanne
Billionaire Bill Gates, who penned How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need in 2021, has ironically seen Microsoft’s emissions soar by a near 30% since 2020.
Competitor Meta is way off achieving its net-zero goal, with only 1% of its emissions in Scope 1 and 2, leaving 8.5 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent in supply chain emissions.
The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry, with data centres consuming as much electricity as 50,000 homes – collectively devouring more energy than some nation states
In 2019, Jeff Bezos said he was “done being in the middle of the herd” on climate policies when launching Amazon’s Climate Pledge to use 100% renewable energy by 2030. But Amazon only takes responsibility for products with an Amazon brand label, which make up 1% of its online sales. Its reported carbon footprint still increased by over 35% from 2018 to 2020.
Text by Zoe Rasbash Illustration by Esther Lalanne