IBM has won more climate leadership awards than any other company, but hardly anyone knows what we are actually doing to fight climate change. So I wrote a 6,000 word whitepaper to show people what we've been doing. But then I remembered that people hate whitepapers. So I created a GIF from these slides instead. (I posted an article with all the sources, links and videos on Linkedin article if you're interested).

1. Annual Global Temperatures From 1850-2017
X CLIMATE
CHANGE

2. IBM Confidential2
“CLIMATE CHANGE IS ONE
OF THE MOST CRITICAL
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL
CHALLENGES FACING THE
PLANET.”
IBM ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT (2007)

3. CLIMATE
LEADERSHIP
AWARDS
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions and The Climate Registry
x

4. 2012
Climate Leadership Award
Organisational Leadership
x
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions and The Climate Registry

5. 2013
Climate Leadership Award
Supply Chain
x
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions and The Climate Registry

6. 2014
Climate Leadership Award
Excellence in Greenhouse Gas Management
x
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions and The Climate Registry

7. 2016
Climate Leadership Award
Organisational Leadership
x
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions and The Climate Registry

8. 2017
Climate Leadership Award
Organisational Leadership
x
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions and The Climate Registry

9. 2018
Climate Leadership Award
Excellence in Greenhouse Gas Management
x
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions and The Climate Registry

10. 2019
Climate Leadership Award
Excellence in Greenhouse Gas Management
x
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions and The Climate Registry

11. MORE CLIMATE LEADERSHIP
AWARDS THAN ANY OTHER
COMPANY
x
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions and The Climate Registry

12. 2019
UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT ACTION AWARD

13. 2019
AWARDED FOR USE OF BLOCKCHAIN
TECHNOLOGY TO ADDRESS PLASTIC
POLLUTION IN THE OCEAN.

14. X CLIMATE
CHANGE

15. A FEW EXAMPLES OF
WHAT WE’RE UP TO…

16. RESEARCH
X
CLIMATE CHANGE

17. $200M TO SUPPORT NEW
RESEARCH THAT MAKES
CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR
UNDERSTANDING OF
CLIMATE CHANGE.

18. IBM Confidential18
Photo © 2019 Steffen Olsen, Danish Meteorological Institute

19. PARTNERING WITH UNITED
NATIONS TO ENCOURAGE
DEVELOPERS WITH $200K
CASH PRIZES TO BUILD
SOLUTIONS FOCUSED ON
THE CLIMATE CRISIS.

20. IBM Confidential20

21. RESEARCH TO IMPROVE THE
ACCURACY OF CLIMATE
MODELS BY ANALYSING HOW
SUPER-MICRON PARTICLES
CONTRIBUTE TO ATMOSPHERIC
TEMPERARTURES.

22. IBM Confidential22

23. RESEARCH PROJECTS TO
EXAMINE THE IMPACT OF
CLIMATE CHANGE ON PUBLIC
HEALTH TO HELP RAISE
AWARENESS OF MAN-MADE
GLOBAL WARMING.

24. IBM Confidential24

25. REDUCING PLASTIC CREATED
FROM FOSSIL FUELS BY
INVENTING NEW RECYCLING
PROCESSES THAT NEVER
DEGRADE THE PLASTIC.

26. IBM Confidential26

27. AI
X
CLIMATE CHANGE

28. $7BN+ INVESTED IN AI
WHICH HELPS RESEARCHERS,
SCIENTISTS & BUSINESS
LEADERS TO BETTER
UNDERSTAND CLIMATE
CHANGE.

29. IBM Confidential29
Data: M. Bevis, et al., “Accelerating changes in ice mass within Greenland, and the
ice sheet’s sensitivity to atmospheric forcing,” PNAS, January 2019.
Photo © 2017 Martin Zwick/REDA&CO/UIG via Getty Images

30. HELPING FARMERS FIGHT
THE CAUSE & EFFECTS OF
MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE
BY USING AI TO IMPROVE
FARMING METHODS.

31. IBM Confidential31
© xpixel/Shutterstock

32. HELPING COMMUNITIES
MANAGE WATER SUPPLIES
AND COMBAT EXTREME
DROUGHT CONDITIONS WITH
APPS THAT ANALYSE WATER
WASTAGE.

33. IBM Confidential33
Photo © 2019 Reuters/P. Ravikumar

34. RUNNING RAINFALL
SIMULATION MODELS IN
AFRICA TO HELP FARMERS
PREPARE FOR
UNPREDICTABLE WEATHER
EVENTS.

35. IBM Confidential35

36. USING GEO-SPATIAL DATA TO
HELP FARMERS BY
DEMOCRATISING DATA THAT
INCREASES PRODUCTION
AND LOWERS COSTS.

37. IBM Confidential37
© 2018 Julian Stratenschulte/picture alliance via Getty Images

38. FLYING FLEETS OF
DRONES ACROSS FARMLAND
TO CAPTURE IMAGES THAT
ARE ANALYSED BY AI
TO PROTECT LAND FROM
THREATS & PESTS.

39. IBM Confidential39
© Getty Images/Stockbyte

40. IBM GREEN HORIZONS
PROJECT HELPED BUILD THE
WORLD’S MOST ADVANCED
AI-POWERED AIR QUALITY
FORECASTING SYSTEM.

41. IBM Confidential41

42. BLOCKCHAIN
X
CLIMATE CHANGE

43. REDUCING CARBON
EMISSIONS FROM FOOD
WASTE BY USING
BLOCKCHAIN TO MANAGE
FOOD PRODUCTION BETTER.

44. IBM Confidential44
© Yann Arthus-Bertrand/Altitude

45. APPS
X
CLIMATE CHANGE

46. CONNECTING SMALL-SCALE
FARMERS WITH DATA THAT
IMPROVES LAND USE AND
PROVIDES ACCESS TO
FINANCIAL SERVICES.

47. IBM Confidential47

48. APP BUILDING
COMPETITIONS FROM
275,000 PARTICIPANTS HAVE
CREATED 2,700 IDEAS THAT
HELP FIGHT CLIMATE
CHANGE.

49. IBM Confidential49
© 2018 Narayan Maharjan/NurPhoto via Getty Images

50. IBM’S WORLD COMMUNITY
GRID ENABLES ANYONE TO
DONATE TIME ON THEIR
MOBILE TO CLIMATE
CHANGE RESEARCH.

52. ENERGY
X
CLIMATE CHANGE

53. AS THE WORLD TRANSITIONS
TO NEW ENERGY SYSTEMS,
IBM IS BUILDING SOLUTIONS
TO HELP ACCELERATE THE
TRANSITION TO WIND &
SOLAR.

54. IBM Confidential54
© 2011 AP Photo/Sunday Alamba

55. TO REDUCE IBM’S CARBON
FOOTPRINT SMART BUILDING
SOLUTIONS REDUCED
ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN
155 OFFICES BY 35,000MWh
PER YEAR.

56. IBM Confidential56
© 2018 Imaginechina via AP Images

57. IBM HAS CONSERVED OVER
7.5 MILLION MWh OF
ELECTRICITY AND AVOIDED
OVER 4.5 MILLION METRICS
TONS OF CO2 EMISSIONS
SINCE 1990.

58. IBM Confidential58
Photo © 2018 Ari Lindquist/Bloomberg via Getty Images

59. 40% OF IBM’S ENERGY USE
COMES FROM RENEWABLE
SOURCES.

60. IBM Confidential60

61. BUSINESS
X
CLIMATE CHANGE

62. IN 2019 IBM LAUNCHED A
CLIMATE RISK & RESILIENCY
BUSINESS TO HELP BUSINESS
UNDERSTAND THEIR
EXPOSURE TO CLIMATE
RELATED EVENTS.

63. IBM Confidential63

64. BENCHMARK DISCUSSIONS
HELP IBM EMPLOYEES TO
EDUCATE CLIENTS ABOUT
THE RISKS & OPPORTUNITIES
THEY FACE DUE TO CLIMATE
CHANGE.

65. IBM Confidential65
© 2013 AP Photo/Mel Evans

66. 1973
ESTABLISHES ENERGY
CONSERVATION PROGRAM

67. 1997
FIRST MULTINATIONAL COMPANY TO
EARN GLOBAL REGISTRATION OF ITS
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM

68. 2015
IBM Supports Paris Climate Agreement.
“DOING WHAT IS GOOD FOR THE
ENVIRONMENT IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS”

69. RECOGNISED AS
EARLY LEADER
IN SETTING
GREENHOUSE
GAS EMISSION
REDUCTION
GOALS

71. IBM Confidential71
WE CAN BUILD A BUSINESS, CHANGE
THE WORLD AND HAVE FUN.

72. @JEREMYWAITE