Google Deletes Net-Zero Pledge From Sustainability Website

An anonymous reader shares a report: Google's CEO Sundar Pichai stood smiling in a leafy-green California garden in September 2020 and declared that the tech behemoth was entering the 'most ambitious decade yet' in its climate action. 'Today, I'm proud to announce that we intend to be the first major company to operate carbon free -- 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year,' he said, in a video announcement at the time.

Pichai added that he knew the 'road ahead would not be easy,' but Google 'aimed to prove that a carbon-free future is both possible and achievable fast enough to prevent the most dangerous impacts of climate change.' Five years on, just how hard Google's 'energy journey' would become is clear. In June, Google's Sustainability website proudly boasted a headline pledge to achieve net-zero emissions by 2030. By July, that had all changed. An investigation by Canada's National Observer has found that Google's net-zero pledge has quietly been scrubbed, demoted from having its own section on the site to an entry in the appendices of the company's sustainability report.

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