FILE - A sign is displayed on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif., on Sept. 24, 2019. Google fell far short of its ambitious goals to address climate change by cleaning up its operations, according to the company’s annual Environmental Report released on Tuesday, July 2, 2024. Three years ago, Google set an ambitious plan to address climate change by going “net zero,” meaning it would release no more climate-changing gases into the air than it removes, by 2030.
The company has one of the most significant climate commitments in industry and has been seen as a leader. “The reality is that we are far behind what we could already be doing now with the technology that we have, with the resources that we have, in terms of advancing the transition,” she said.US gives key approval to Atlantic Shores offshore wind farm in New JerseyGoogle Chief Sustainability Officer Kate Brandt told The Associated Press, “Reaching this net zero goal by 2030, this is an extremely ambitious goal.
In the case of Google, that could mean using data to predict future flooding, or making traffic flow more efficiently, to save gasoline.