Hundreds of Amazon employees are taking a stand against what they say is the e-commerce giant's 'insufficient action on the climate crisis'—in spite of claims that their jobs were threatened for speaking out in the past about the issue.
A series ofAn Amazon spokesperson told ABC News Monday that the company is"passionate" about climate change and has committed to net zero carbon emissions by 2040.
The company does, however, enforce an external communications policy for staff speaking to the press or on social media, but“Of course we are passionate about these issues. Our ‘Positions’ page makes this clear and outlines what we’re doing about them. Take climate change as one example -- we founded the Climate Pledge, committing to net zero carbon by 2040, which is ten years ahead of the Paris Agreement," the spokesperson said in a statement.
The statement continued:"While all employees are welcome to engage constructively with any of the many teams inside Amazon that work on sustainability and other topics, we do enforce our external communications policy and will not allow employees to publicly disparage or misrepresent the company or the hard work of their colleagues who are developing solutions to these hard problems."
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