Microsoft President Brad Smith on Wednesday said that thousands of businesses would fail to meet pledges to combat climate change, if they did not train employees on sustainability. 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.
Thousands of businesses will fail to meet pledges to combat climate change unless they start training employees on sustainability, Microsoft’s President Brad Smith told Reuters. Speaking ahead of a report the software maker released Wednesday, Smith said common instruction on issues like carbon accounting was too piecemeal for the roughly 3,900 companies that have vowed to cut their CO2 emissions. “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.
