Amazon has set a goal to meet the Paris Climate Agreement objectives by 2040, 10 years early, including a pledge to emit net-zero carbon.
Delivery giant Amazon AMZN, +0.22% on Thursday set a goal to meet Paris Climate Agreement objectives 10 years early, with a pledge to be carbon neutral by 2040 even for its Prime one-day shipping service.
“We’re done being in the middle of the herd on this issue — we’ve decided to use our size and scale to make a difference,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. “If a company with as much physical infrastructure as Amazon — which delivers more than 10 billion items a year — can meet the Paris Agreement 10 years early, then any company can.”
Consumers and shareholders have had to reconcile the retailer’s creative destruction, which allows everything from fresh fruit to diapers to bicycle chain oil to be delivered, heavily packaged in some cases, on doorsteps. Some argue that mass deliveries are more efficient than a car culture that drove to shopping malls and grocery chains.
Now, with what it’s calling Amazon Shipment Zero, the retailer thinks it can eventually make all shipments net-zero carbon, and be at 50% net-zero carbon by 2030, the company said Thursday. Getting there will include use of its existing sustainable packaging initiatives like Frustration-Free Packaging and Ship-in-Own-Container, which have reduced packaging waste by 25% since 2015.
It has already made investments that could change the way it delivers, including $440 million in Michigan-based, and Illinois-built, Rivian emissions-free electric vehicles. Amazon on Thursday said it has ordered 100,000 electric delivery vehicles from Rivian, the largest order ever of electric delivery vehicles, with vans starting to deliver packages to customers in 2021.
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