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Amazon’s carbon footprint grew 15% in 2019, highlighting the challenge of net zero emissions

GeekWire

Amazon has pledged to make its retail and cloud-computing operations “net carbon zero” by 2040, but its newly released 2019 sustainability report shows that greenhouse gas emissions rose over the previous year by 15%. grams of CO2e per dollar of Gross Merchandise Sales in 2018 to 122.8 It dropped 5%, declining from 128.9

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Facebook boosts its climate commitments with pledge to cut greenhouse gases

The Verge

The company’s new pledge to reach “net zero” carbon emissions puts it on track to offset its global power consumption and planet-heating pollution by investing in renewable energy projects and initiatives that capture and store carbon dioxide. Apple plans to bring down its emissions to net zero by 2030, and Amazon by 2040.

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