Except, that's probably not statistically true.
If the management team is responsible for 50% of air travel, then the
figures from the environmental impact survey indicate that amounts to
15% of the entire contribution to CO2 emissions for the WMF. However
you reframe or spin the WSJ article, the CEO spending 200 days on the
road last year, rather than, say, cutting that number in half by using
the telephone or other virtual conferencing technology, must be a
significant factor in those numbers.
The contribution actually is higher than that, as the impact made from
the published impact from WMF use of hotels, probably pushes that 15%
figure to over 20%.
It's simple maths, not rocket science. Of course if real firm figures
about air travel by the management team were published by the WMF,
rather than estimates, we could start calculating the impact of
specific year on year improvement, rather than relying on high level
statements about the aims for the current year and end of year "good
news" selective summaries of how well everyone has done. Facts and
measurable commitments would be super useful, rather than
sensationalism, as you agree.
Thanks
Fae
On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 at 14:28, Adrian Raddatz <ajraddatz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm more interested in the numbers for the WMF as a whole. One CEO does not
make an emissions problem, and in a global-reaching organization I'd hope
that the CEO would be flying around a bit. Focusing on the ten or so
executives at the Foundation seems like a sensational approach rather than
a useful one.
Adrian
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 9:24 AM Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> 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…
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