Google CEO Sundar Pichai: Combating climate change is a 'foundational value' for tech companies—and it attracts top talent

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai: Combating climate change is a 'foundational value' for tech companies—and it attracts top talent (via CNBCMakeIt)

were looking for security and good pay, Rothberg says. "This spring and summer, we're seeing students and recent grads turning away from some employers for social justice reasons, including climate change."

Companies who make climate change a priority and are successful in communicating to recruits "how combating climate change is integral to their business operations have a tremendous advantage over employers who are unable or unwilling to say so," Rothberg says. "We're seeing this across all industries, not just those directly related to the environment," Rothberg says. "A student who is considering entering restaurant management, for example, is going to be far more likely to apply to a restaurant that buys from local, organic, sustainable providers than massive, factory farms.""The next generation is impatient. And they're going to hold us increasingly accountable," Pichai said.

Google has bold sustainability bets to be held accountable for, too. Since 2007, the company has been carbon neutral, meaning "a company has purchased enough carbon offsets to compensate for the emissions the company produces through its operations,""We'll reach our new target when every Google data center and office campus runs on round-the-clock clean electricity," the company said.

 

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