21 companies commit climate actions via technology

The declaration signatories include several established climate leaders like Akamai Technologies, Arm, Autodesk, Bloomberg, BT, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, HP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lyft, Nokia, Salesforce, Supermicro, Symantec, Uber, Vigilent and VMware. Collectively, these organisations cover a broad range of industries capable of delivering significant greenhouse gas emissions cuts across buildings, data-centres, finance, telecoms, transport and more, the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) said in a statement.

GCAS’ high-level plenary session, with focus on the launch of the Exponential Climate Action Roadmap, to move from incremental to exponential action, began in this California city on Thursday. The two-day session saw over 4,000 business, city, state and civil society delegates plotting more ambitious commitments to achieve the goals set by the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement.

As part of the Step Up Declaration, Tech Mahindra will create the first ever global ‘AI for Action’ movement for climate via a new competition, organised by GCAS and its associate companies, that will deliver real solution for climate action.