Sharing Our Progress on Combating Local weather Change

As leaders and consultants convene in Egypt for COP27, we’re outlining progress on our local weather commitments and saying expanded instruments to assist our communities take motion towards local weather change. Like earlier years, we’re specializing in how we are able to leverage our applied sciences, apps and operational technique to display our dedication to options.

Accountable Operations

Since 2020, we’ve achieved internet zero greenhouse fuel emissions for our international operations as they’re now supported by 100% renewable vitality. We’ve additionally set formidable targets to realize internet zero worth chain emissions and to revive extra water than we eat in our international operations in 2030. Decreasing our emissions and serving to our suppliers to do the identical is our prime precedence to succeed in our local weather goal.

This 12 months, we introduced a brand new partnership with Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify and McKinsey Sustainability to launch Frontier, a sophisticated market dedication to assist scale rising carbon removing applied sciences which are essential to tackling local weather change.

Elevating Authoritative Local weather Info

As evidenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve got a vital position to play throughout international crises in connecting individuals to correct data. That’s why we’ve constructed and expanded quite a lot of instruments to offer authoritative details about the realities of local weather change.

We’ve created a brand new web page that explains our holistic strategy to addressing local weather content material and misinformation on our apps. Our funding within the Local weather Misinformation Grant Program is forging new partnerships and initiatives, and our Public Advert Library provides an additional layer of transparency into all local weather adverts.

• We’ve expanded the Local weather Science Heart and it’s now obtainable in 165 nations. We’re additionally increasing Local weather Inform Labels, a device that provides hyperlinks to Fb posts about local weather change and connects individuals with expert-backed data within the Local weather Science Heart.
• We’ve launched a Local weather InfoFinder device that allows individuals to seek for trusted details about local weather change and hyperlink to this content material straight in remark threads.
• We labored with companions to assist launch our first Local weather Science Literacy Initiative. Its objective is to pre-bunk local weather misinformation by working adverts throughout our merchandise and apps that function 5 of the commonest strategies used to misrepresent local weather change.

Empowering Communities to Take Motion

After our largest-ever international survey about local weather change this previous spring painted an image of deep concern amongst respondents, we’ve got seen significant change occur when communities come collectively. Greater than 40 million individuals all over the world are a part of no less than one of many 24,000 Fb Teams devoted to the invention, safety and appreciation of the earth and our surroundings.

We’re testing a brand new function in Fb Teams, referred to as Local weather Pledges, which leverages the ability of communities to allow local weather motion. Developed with inputs from the UN Setting Programme and UN’s ActNow, the Local weather Pledges function incorporates expert-backed local weather options to spark dialog and assist individuals perceive probably the most impactful actions they’ll take. Group admins can select the options most related to their communities, invite group members to hitch, present help and supply tricks to maintain everybody accountable. For instance, a photo voltaic panel group admin could select to activate the “Switch to renewable energy” pledge and group members decide to becoming a member of it collectively. Group members may also uncover related content material, together with Reels, from throughout Fb which they’ll then localize to their communities.

Serving to Equip Our Companions With Sources

Our Enhance Information to Inexperienced Program has reached 1.3 million small and medium-sized companies (“SMBs”) on learn how to turn out to be greener. We launched a new report in October, in partnership with Accenture, which explores the connection between SMBs and local weather motion, and the way digital expertise can help them. Our Knowledge for Good program additionally supplied knowledge from our small enterprise surveys to the World Commerce Group, which revealed a report on small companies’ experiences and challenges associated to local weather change.

We additionally launched the Local weather Perceptions Index, developed by the Social Progress Crucial, utilizing knowledge from our 2022 Local weather Change Opinion Survey. It presents data on the societal implications of local weather change with new knowledge on individuals’s consciousness of local weather change, their notion of its dangers and their dedication to local weather motion.

Lastly, we’ve got collaborated with the World Sources Institute on prevention campaigns to scale back meals waste, reaching greater than 40 million individuals in Germany and the UK. We’ll use the insights we acquire from these campaigns to inform future work.