Amazon’s Shipping and Delivery Emissions Just Keep Going Up

https://www.wired.com/story/amazons-shipping-and-delivery-emissions-just-keep-going-up/

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  1. By Molly Taft

    Five years ago, in a splashy speech in Washington DC, Jeff Bezos rolled out Amazon’s Climate Pledge, a series of commitments to show that the company was serious about addressing climate change.

    A core component of that pledge was putting 100,000 electric delivery vans on the road by 2030. In a blog post from this July, the company proclaims that it has now delivered 800 million packages in the US using EVs, with 15,000 trucks on the road in neighborhoods across the country.

    A new report, released Thursday from corporate campaigners at Stand.earth, attempts to figure out just how much damage shipping the US’s Amazon orders is doing to the planet. It finds that overall emissions from shipping packages have increased 75 percent since 2019, from 3.3 million tons of CO2 equivalents in 2019 to 5.8 million tons last year. The 2.5-million-ton difference is the equivalent of putting 595,000 additional gas-powered cars on the road for a year.

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  2. This may be true but I literally do not drive around to shop now. I buy groceries and that’s it in person. The Amazon truck makes one swipe through the neighborhood a day. You’d be hard pressed to get me to believe that multiplying me by millions wouldn’t somehow balance this out. I’d love to see the actual numbers of what fuel they save people.

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