Companies are on the hot seat to respond to climate change like never before, but most corporate leaders don’t have the tools necessary to meet those pledges, said Microsoft President Brad Smith last week at the inaugural Breakthrough Energy Summit in Seattle.
“By our count, 3,470 companies around the world have signed up for a climate pledge,” said Smith. “That shows that an awareness and good intentions have literally spread around the world. Now, what’s bad: there does not yet exist the capacity for most — for almost any company — to, with confidence, turn that pledge into the progress that has been promised.”
Smith was on stage at the conference hosted by Breakthrough Energy, the climate-innovation company launched by Bill Gates, who famously co-founded Microsoft in 1975 and became extraordinarily wealthy from the tech company’s success.
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