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Amazon actually keep their carbon footprint secret. They have a vague plan to have half their shipping and AWS be fully green by 2030, during which time AWS al
by benologist 7y ago
Amazon actually keep their carbon footprint secret. They have a vague plan to have half their shipping and AWS be fully green by 2030, during which time AWS alone will net about another hundred billion dollars in profit. The secrecy and their laggard response despite immense profits does not make me optimistic about their carbon footprint today.
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/05/25/amazon-carbon-footprint-analysis-cbs/ https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/05/25/amazon-carbon-f...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/19/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-announces-new-climate-pledge-ahead-employee-protests/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/19/amazon-...
- lucb1e 7y agoWait, half their shipping green by 2030? That's both too little and too late. If it had been fully green in 2025 or so... they easily make enough profit to at least fund compensation programs (like Climeworks' recapturing) for the part of CO2 that is currently required for flying the planes (since there is not yet a practical alternative to flying fuel-based planes, that's one area where compensation currently makes sense given that emission can't be avoided).