Giving Compass' Take:

• As part of the Global Climate Strike, Amazon employees are pushing their company to be bolder in lowering emissions and stop funding climate change denial.

• What should consumers expect and demand from Amazon in terms of corporate responsibility and SDGs? 

• Here's an article on unpacking corporate responsibility at Amazon.  

On the morning of September 20, workers at Amazon’s corporate offices will walk off the job for the first time since the company launched 25 years ago. The goal: to push the tech giant to act faster to address climate change.

The walkout, which 941 Amazon employees have pledged to take part in so far, is part of the larger Global Climate Strike led by the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. At a handful of companies, offices will shut down completely—Seventh Generation, for example, is giving employees in 30 countries time off work to protest, and Burton is closing its offices, redirecting its e-commerce site to the Global Climate Strike home page, and closing its stores to offer community gathering spaces before marches. But at Amazon, the walkout is the latest step by a group of employees working internally to get the company to do far more.

In a Medium post, the group, called Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, quotes Jeff Bezos: “It’s hard to find an issue that is more important than climate change.” But then they point out Amazon’s role in the problem. As the company runs warehouses and makes deliveries, it’s racking up greenhouse gas emissions. It has designed custom tech to help oil and gas companies work faster to exploit new oil and gas reserves. It also helps fund a climate-denial think tank and members of Congress who have consistently voted against climate legislation.

Read the full article about Amazon employee walkout by Adele Peters at Fast Company.