📈 Diagnostic
🏅Achievements
Largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in the world in 2020 (65% of its energy use)
📊 Performance
Amazon has been increasing its emissions across all scopes over the last 3 years.The company argues that the increase was due to the strong revenue growth experienced by the company in the last years, at a CAGR of 28,8% between 2018 and 2020.
🧭 Strategy
Strategic pillars – Amazon divides its sustainability, climate impact and resource strategy into five pillars
Strategic Pillars | Description |
Participation in climate pledges & funds | By participating in pledges & funds, the company commits itself to regular reporting, meeting emission targets, buying credible offsets, investing in decarbonizing products and technologies and in reforestation projects |
Sustainable operations | Amazon is taking a broad, science-based approach to reducing carbon emissions and improving efficiency across its operations. |
Sustainability in the Cloud | Amazon web services (AWS) is focused on efficiency and continuous innovation across its global infrastructure, seeking to power its operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025. |
Adopting circular economy principles | Amazon is minimizing waste, increasing recycling, and providing options for its customers to reuse, repair, and recycle their products. The company is working to send less material to the landfill and more back into the circular economy loop. |
Giving customers access to sustainable products | The company is committed to helping customers find products that exceed the social and environmental benefits of comparable options when they shop in our stores. |
🎯Goals & Actions
2025 - Power global operations with 100% renewable energy
- Energy Efficiency: Innovate to continuously increase the energy efficiency of operations
- Off-Site Renewable Projects: Invest in new, utility-scale renewable energy projects.
- On-Site Solar: Deploy rooftop solar systems on buildings Amazon operates along with battery storage
- Site Energy Contracts: Participate in green tariff programs with utilities and pursue new renewable projects through competitive site energy contracts.
- Policy Engagement: Support public policy that advances access to and the expansion of clean energy for Amazon and our customers.
2030 - 50% of all shipments net zero
- Product planned to be transported in an electric delivery vehicle, by foot or by bicycle to customer
- Product will ship without amazon packaging or in carbon neutral packaging
- Product planned to travel through facilities powered by 100% clean energy
- Optimization of energy from building operations by using innovative robotics conveyance systems to move shipments through facilities
2040 - Net zero emissions across its operations
- Remove carbon using nature-based solutions through its Right Now Fund
- Power operations with renewable energy
- Invest in sustainable aviation fuels for long-distance freight
- Decarbonizing buildings – construction and operation