Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Amazon, Apple, Google and eBay bashed for weak climate efforts

In a recent scorecard rating corporations on their green efforts, Amazon got a 0/100, eBay and Apple each scored 2. Despite its recent solar campus efforts, $5000 employee incentive for hybrid cars, and a fleet of biodiesel buses that cart thousands of employees to and from San Francisco and other Bay Area spots each day, Google scored a mere 17.

From the Climate Counts scorecard site:
Climate Counts use a 0-to-100 point scale and 22 criteria to determine if companies have:

* MEASURED their climate "footprint"
* REDUCED their impact on global warming
* SUPPORTED (or suggest intent to block) progressive climate legislation
* Publicly DISCLOSED their climate actions clearly and comprehensively

I'm not sure if this is an 'AND' list or an 'OR' list. Either way, one can't help but wonder why a company like Amazon (who received a big fat zero), Apple, or eBay, would allow themselves to qualify on any of these grounds, save 'suggest intent to block legislation'. I could not find evidence that any of them have done so.


Links:
Google Blog: Clean Energy Update
SF Gate Article

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