- Thousands of businesses will fail to meet pledges to combat climate change unless they start training employees on sustainability, Microsoft Corp's President Brad Smith told Reuters.
"We have to move very quickly to start to bring our emissions down, and the ultimate bottleneck is the supply of skilled people," he said. Wednesday's study, by Microsoft and Boston Consulting Group, found that many corporate environmental leaders - 68 per cent - were internal hires whose team members lacked sustainability-related degrees more often than not. The findings primarily stemmed from interviews and surveys with Microsoft and eight other large companies in sectors such as finance and consumer goods.
While Microsoft itself has grown its sustainability headcount to about 250 employees from only 30 largely in the past three years, having the right workforce to deliver on its carbon-reduction goals remains a challenge, Smith said.
Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)
MS, as with all capitalists, is about building companies. They don’t know how to build people. Combatting climate change requires influencing the behavior of every person on the planet. Teach people to have self-control & be conscientious of all they do and you’ll fix EVERYTHING!
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