Facebook takes the field against climate change by launching an information center on climatology, which collects news provided by authoritative sources along with good practices to reduce the environmental footprint.
The initiative - immediately active in the US, GB, France and Germany - comes in view of the Climate Week, scheduled for 21 to 27 September.
The climate information center follows the approach on Covid launched by the social network in recent months, which has reached two billion users and has been actively used by 600 million people.
In detail - explains the platform in a note - it will provide information material from reliable sources such as the United Nations Intergovernmental Group on Climate Change (IPCC) and the UN Environment Program (Unep), the World Meteorological Organization, the agency US for Meteorology (Noaa) and UK Meteorological Service (Met Office) "As we have seen with wildfires on the west coast of the United States and floods in South Sudan and South Asia, it is clear that climate change is real and the need to act becomes more and more urgent every day, "writes CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a post highlighting Facebook's commitments to the environment.
"To comply with the Paris Agreement by limiting the rise in temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius, net global emissions will need to be zero by 2050. To help achieve this goal, Facebook's global operations will reach emissions. zero by 2020, and we expect to reach zero emissions across our supply chain by 2030 ".