Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

Bill Weihl argues US corporates have a huge opportunity to help deliver genuinely ambitious climate-focused legislation. Companies have a big opportunity to be on the right side of climate history by speaking up loud and clear for this bill. To quote always-wise Bill McKibben, " zeitgeist matters".

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 2, 2021

” Executive Director Bill Weihl discusses the campaign.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 2, 2021

” Executive Director Bill Weihl discusses the campaign.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

But if there's no risk in staying politically silent on climate and other ESG issues, companies will default to this choice, said Bill Weihl, former director of sustainability at Facebook, during a breakout session on corporate activism. Yet even some of the most sustainable brands still shy away from advocacy.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Bill Weihl was Google’s green energy czar, leading climate and clean energy work, then spent six years at Facebook as director of sustainability. , but we have the opportunity to solve multiple massive problems and improve people's lives enormously in the process. In 2020, he founded ClimateVoice.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2022

ClimateVoice's Bill Weihl argues there has never been a more important time for businesses that want bolder climate action to flex their lobbying muscles. As discussion grows about a new climate-focused bill, there's also renewed attention to what companies are doing - and not doing - to advance climate policy.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 3, 2020

In fact, that’s exactly what sustainability vet Bill Weihl is hoping to do through his new and promising ClimateVoice initiative. The race to meeting climate goals. Scott Wood, Director, Climate Corps. Corporate leaders are feeling heightened pressure to act fast on climate.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Recently, Microsoft also won plaudits from climate campaigner Bill Weihl , founder and executive director of Climate Voice, for being the only one of America's biggest five corporates to publicly back the Inflation Reduction Act that was passed over the summer.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2021

I recently interviewed former Google and Facebook sustainability exec Bill Weihl who now heads up the ClimateVoice campaign , which is calling on the Silicon Valley giants to beef up their lobbying operations in support of climate action to provide a much needed counter-weight to the pollutocrats.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

Bill Weihl, founder of NGO ClimateVoice, who was formerly director of sustainability at Facebook and green energy czar at Google, urged tech companies to step up their lobbying and "use their enormous influence" to advance climate policies.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Bill Weihl was Google’s green energy czar, leading climate and clean energy work, then spent six years at Facebook as director of sustainability. , but we have the opportunity to solve multiple massive problems and improve people’s lives enormously in the process. In 2020, he founded ClimateVoice.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Bill McKibben reflects on brand advocacy, the final frontier of climate leadership. If we don’t get much of the work done by 2030, we probably aren’t going to get a chance to do much afterward because it’ll be too late," said Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org Mike Hower. Tue, 11/03/2020 - 01:30. The next four years.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2021

But Climate Voice founder Bill Weihl, a former Facebook and Google sustainability specialist who set up the non-profit to encourage businesses to go "all in" on climate action, said large tech companies should also be using their influence and vast resources to support pro-climate action lobbying. They're hiring like crazy.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

“If we don’t get much of the work done by 2030, we probably aren’t going to get a chance to do much afterward because it’ll be too late,” said Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org “The big challenge big companies face as they think about brand advocacy is political risk,” Weihl said.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

With the proliferation of distributed energy resources and smart devices, there are opportunities to optimize how your buildings’ energy assets work together to reduce your energy consumption — and bills. This session looks at how artificial intelligence and the internet of things can help you get deeper savings and reach your energy goals.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Perhaps the biggest divide between these companies and the chamber came last year, when Microsoft endorsed the largest climate investment in history, the $369bn Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and Google followed suit shortly after passage, touting the bill as driving a "historic climate and clean energy renaissance". Kyrsten Sinema.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2021

Despite Facebook’s public support for climate action, it continues to allow its platform to be used to spread fossil fuel propaganda,” Bill Weihl, Facebook’s former director of sustainability, said in a statement accompanying the report. About 200 million people in the U.S. to their messages at least twice on average.

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