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The Climate Pledge

In September 2019, Amazon announced—and was the first signatory of—the Climate Pledge, which has the objective of meeting the goals of the Paris agreement ten years early. The remarks below were taken from the Climate Pledge’s launch press conference. They include comments from Dara O’Rourke, who leads the sustainability science team at Amazon.

THOSE WHO SIGN the Climate Pledge agree to, number one, measure and report their emissions on a regular basis and, number two, to implement decarbonization strategies in line with the Paris agreement, which basically means that these are real things they are doing in their business, things they’re changing in their actual business activities to eliminate carbon.

And then, third, ...