If we are discussing such things, why do not we are discussing whether WMF
employees are driving to the work or taking public transportation? Or
chapter employees? Or volunteers? Or whether volunteers switch off the
light when they leave a room (I actually do)?
I really do not think this is a reasonable avenue to proceed.
Cheers
Yaroslav
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 7:53 PM Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sure, but it seems more realistic than calculating the
CO2
contributions from the management team compared to all the other
employees.
At the end of the day, how many flights the executive team take as
part of their jobs, and working out whether they are flying less or
more in 2019 compared to 2018, is an very simple and useful fact to be
open and transparent about. Doing so gives everyone a great incentive
to do better.
Considering the WMF is getting ethical gold stars by putting a Climate
Change banner over the entirety of its website landing page, it is
reasonable to expect that the organization starts by changing itself
and turn the non-committal statements in the WMF presentation from "we
will consider" and "we will seek" in to a meaningful and measurable
"we will act".
Thanks,
Fae
On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 at 17:58, Joseph Seddon <josephseddon(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Because # of flights is not a useful metric for assessing environmental
impact.
Seddon
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 3:23 PM Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Those publications are where my numbers came from. There is no useful
> transparency to explain how many actual flights are taken, why or by
whom.
>
> Fae
>
> On Fri, 20 Sep 2019, 15:17 Lucas Werkmeister, <
mail(a)lucaswerkmeister.de>
> wrote:
>
> > Did you see the sustainability report that was published yesterday
[1]
> > [2]? Page 30 of the PDF has some
numbers on business travel by air –
> > some 5.6 million km in total, by the looks of it. Page 32 also shows
> > that the carbon footprint of air travel is about half that of the
> > electricity used by the Foundation’s data centers.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Lucas
> >
> > [1]:
> >
> >
>
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/09/19/how-the-wikimedia-foundatio…
> > [2]:
> >
> >
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Sustainability…
> >
> > On 20.09.19 15:23, Fæ wrote:
> > > Nice to see that
https://wikimediafoundation.org has a banner
linking
> > > to the global climate strike
today.
> > >
> > > Can anyone produce some verifiable metrics that the WMF has taken
> > > significant action to reduce the total number of aircraft flights
the
> > > WMF uses?
> > >
> > > I am asking as though there are no transparently published figures
for
> > > how much the WMF spends on air
travel, I recall that the Katherine
> > > Mahler was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, where is was
part
> > > of her impressive executive
profile to be "on the road" for 200
days
> > > of the year. This probably puts
Katherine in the very top numbers
for
> > > CEOs with damaging carbon
footprints resulting from travelling so
> > > often by flying.[1] If the WMF wants to be seen as an ethical
company
> > > when it comes to reducing their
organizational impact on climate
> > > change, perhaps this could start with publishing travel figures for
> > > the CEO and the rest of the management team, so that everyone can
see
> > > whether there is year on year
improvement, or none.
> > >
> > > Thanks again for the banner, it does help increase the sense of
> urgency.
> > >
> > > Links:
> > > 1.
> >
>
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-35-year-old-executive-director-of-wiki…
> > >
> > > Fae
> > >
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