Hang Up on Fossil Fuels

Comcast – Listen to Al Roker: Climate Change is Real

Tell Comcast to switch to 100% clean energy and to ensure Energy Equity.

The communications industry contributes at least 2.5% of our global greenhouse gas emissions and consumes an enormous amount of electricity from fossil fuels each year. And Comcast is a big part of that.

Comcast isn’t just a cable company but a massive communications company that includes Universal and NBC. As part of our Hang Up on Fossil Fuels campaign, Comcast was added to the companies we evaluated this year, and it did not fare well. Comcast is using little renewable electricity and is lacking in robust goals to get to 100% wind and solar. AND it is not taking significant steps to address Energy Equity Issues in the energy it purchases.

NBC’s own Al Roker, the long-time weather correspondent on the Today Show, has made the connection between extreme weather events and climate change. Comcast needs to listen to its own in-house expert!

Green America strongly believes that companies like Comcast must make the transition to clean energy and use their market power to benefit the communities most harmed by fossil fuels and protect workers in clean energy supply chains.

We need much more progress in this sector to #cleanupwireless! With the harsh impacts of the climate crisis already being felt by communities worldwide, we need aggressive commitments. There’s no time to wait.

Please tell Comcast to make 100% clean energy a high priority, and do much, much more to address Energy Equity.

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Comcast – Take Action to Stop Climate Change

Mr.

Brian

Roberts

Comcast

Dear Mr. Roberts,

As the CEO and Chairman of Comcast, I’m asking your company to take action to address climate change, which is already being felt by many of the communities you serve. Comcast aims to entertain customers all over the country but there is nothing entertaining about the effects of climate change.

While some companies in the communications sector have taken important first steps on clean energy and set timelines to reduce carbon emissions, Comcast is not acting fast enough. As detailed in Green America’s recent report, Clean Energy is Calling: The Communications Industry Needs to Listen, Comcast is using very little renewable energy, has not set a goal for reaching 100% renewables, and is not taking significant action on energy justice.

As a leading communications company Comcast must step up and use your market power to phase out the use of fossil fuels by committing to using 100% renewable energy. And while doing so Comcast must ensure that Energy Justice and ensuring a just supply chain are central to making the transition.

Specifically, I’m asking your company to

-Set a goal for 100% renewable energy that puts new wind or solar power on the grid by 2030 and enter contracts to meet this goal.

-Go beyond the company’s carbon neutral goal to set a net zero goal for emissions in line with the Science Based Targets Initiative by 2035.

-Advance energy justice through renewable energy contracts. At a time when Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts are under attack, companies must take a stand for equity and justice with policies and actions.

-Ensure that the mining of critical minerals that power the renewable energy transition avoids violating human rights and environmental justice. We need renewable energy, but companies also need to use their market power to incentivize a responsible supply chain.

-Provide greater transparency and reporting regarding energy justice goals and markers as well as sourcing policies and monitoring of those sourcing policies.

Comcast reaches into the homes of Americans to entertain and inform. Now Comcast needs to reach into the market to change the way it procures and uses energy. I am joining Green America in asking you to use your market power to increase the amount of renewable energy powering your networks, with a goal of 100% clean energy from solar and wind by 2030 and incorporate energy justice into your energy transition.

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