Our sustainability goals lack context.

We donate to climate-delaying legislators: While Amazon has joined a variety of sustainability organizations like the Corporate Eco Forum and the American Council on Renewable Energy, we donated to 68 members of congress in 2018 who voted against climate legislation 100% of the time.

To avert catastrophic warming, the science is clear: we must keep fossil fuels in the ground.

We have an AWS for Oil & Gas initiative devoted to helping fossil fuel companies accelerate and expand oil and gas extraction.

Offsets can entail forest management policies that displace Indigenous communities, and they do nothing to reduce our diesel pollution which disproportionately harms communities of color.

Shipment Zero only commits to net carbon reductions, which allows us to continue to pollute we recently ordered 20,000 diesel vans whose emissions will need to be offset with carbon credits.

Given Amazon’s rate of growth, reaching 50% net-zero shipments by 2030 could still be an increase in emissions compared to today. In addition, Shipment Zero does not commit to a decrease in emissions compared to current levels. Our goal to reach 100% renewable energy does not have a date for completion.

We haven’t disclosed a company-wide plan to reach zero carbon emissions within the timeline required by science.

These traits have made Amazon a top global innovator but have been missing from the company’s approach to climate change. We’re a company that understands the importance of thinking big, taking ownership of hard problems, and earning trust. Vulnerable communities least responsible for the climate crisis are already paying the highest price. We’re already seeing devastating climate impacts: unprecedented flooding in India and Mozambique, dry water wells in Africa, coastal displacement in Asia, wildfires and floods in North America, and crop failure in Latin America.

The 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report predicts that a warming of 2° Celsius, which we’re currently on track to surpass, will threaten the lives of hundreds of millions of people and put thousands of species at risk of extinction.

We believe this is a historic opportunity for Amazon to stand with employees and signal to the world that we’re ready to be a climate leader.Ĭlimate change is an existential threat. We, the undersigned 8,701 * Amazon employees, ask that you adopt the climate plan shareholder resolution and release a company-wide climate plan that incorporates the principles outlined in this letter.Īmazon has the resources and scale to spark the world’s imagination and redefine what is possible and necessary to address the climate crisis.

Summer Campaign by Carla Kelly