Our sustainability approach
At Amazon, we are committed to and invested in sustainability because it’s a win all around – it’s good for business, the planet, our customers, and our communities.
We put our scale and inventive culture to work on sustainability and protecting the environment.
Go behind the scenes as Amazon develops a new electric vehicle
100,000 electric delivery vans will save millions of kilograms of carbon per year.
“At our scale we think we can make an incredible positive difference so we build the system around sustainability”
Meet Kara Hurst, Head of Worldwide Sustainability at Amazon and learn more on how we’re facing one of the world’s biggest challenges.
Frustration-Free Packaging
We've all had wrap rage from going head-to-head with impossible-to-open packaging. So in 2008 we set out to solve the problem.
The Lord of the Things
Ralf Hastedt and his team take care of goods that are returned by Amazon customers. Millions of items are prepared for re-use at five locations in Europe.
Sustainability
Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative
Providing access to large datasets in the cloud can help researchers and innovators address a wide range of sustainability challenges. The Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative significantly reduces the cost, time, and technical barriers associated with analyzing large datasets to generate sustainability insights – regardless of an organization’s size or computing power.
Discover some of our latest investments in sustainability
We’re putting our inventive culture to work on sustainability because it’s a win all around – good for our customers, our business, our communities, our selling partners, and the planet.
How is AWS delivering clean energy at no cost to European consumers?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is committed to achieving 100% renewable energy usage for our global infrastructure. Here are some of the ways we worked towards this in 2019.
Aiming at leadership in sustainability on the last mile
Amazon recently co-founded the Climate Pledge, committing to meet Paris Agreement goals 10 years earlier by reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2040.