Written by: YCC Team
When large companies take climate action, it’s often because of pressure from policymakers, lenders, or shareholders.
Piper: “But for a really long time, employees have been an untapped stakeholder group in that wheel of influence that can get corporate CEOs and boards to make different decisions.”
Lucy Piper is with the nonprofit Work for Climate, which aims to change that. The group runs a three-month course, which teaches people how to push for climate action from within a company.
Piper: “We had one engineer who was working with us, and he was able to successfully shift his very conservative engineering firm to 100 percent renewable energy.”
Another participant worked for a cycling company and has since been pushing her industry to avoid having the fossil fuel industry sponsor events.
Work for Climate began in Australia. But to expand its impact, it’s now teamed up with Project Drawdown and other organizations from around the world. Together, they’ve formed the Employee Climate Action Network and consolidated all their tools and resources into one searchable hub.
So any employee anywhere can find the support they need to drive climate action at work.
This article originally appeared on Yale Climate Connections.
