GreenBiz

AUGUST 28, 2020

Amazon hands Mercedes-Benz its biggest electric vehicle order to date. German auto giant Mercedes-Benz announced its largest order of electric vehicles to date Friday: 1,800 electric delivery vans for retail giant Amazon to use across Europe. Katie Fehrenbacher. Fri, 08/28/2020 - 00:00.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 14, 2023

ACTO has pledged to set up an Amazon Alliance to Fight Deforestation, which will include “conservation units” focused on “stopping the Amazon region from reaching the point of no return” while respecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities. None of the ideas were adopted. .

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

The Road to Powering Amazon on 100% Renewable Energy by 2025. Amazon has been investing in sustainability for many years. Back in 2014, Amazon started making major investments in renewable energy. How does a company like Amazon with operations worldwide navigate policies in global markets? Amazon Web Services.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

Amazon to buy bio jet fuel to lower air cargo emissions. Amazon's plans to decarbonize its shipping supply chain isn't just focused on electrifying its delivery vans. Amazon has pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, and says it will make sure half of Amazon shipments are net-zero by 2030. Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 3, 2023

Featuring a conversation with Luna Yu, CEO of Genecis, and Phoebe Wang, an investment partner and head of the Female Founder Initiative at Amazon.

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Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The post Queensland solar farm locks in global tech giant Amazon as energy off-taker appeared first on RenewEconomy. Wandoan South solar farm kicks off commercial operations after signing up the global tech giant as the project's main long-term energy off-taker.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This is the first of our three-part series on Cisco Foundation grantees working in the Amazon and South America region. This article was constructed in partnership with my colleagues at Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance: Atossa Soltani, Uyunkar Domingo Peas, Rafalea Iturralde; and Digital Democracy: Jen Castro, and Megan Barickman.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Tech giant Amazon will encourage members of the Climate Pledge to step up their support of gender equity in climate solutions.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Amazon, Google, Microsoft and the climate cloud. Despite all they're doing to address climate change with both emissions reduction plans, circular economy innovation and consumer awareness, Amazon, Google and Microsoft have been criticized — rightly so, in my mind — for their close ties to the oil and gas sector. "The Heather Clancy.

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Renew Economy

AUGUST 28, 2022

Nasdaq-listed hydrogen tech outfit linked to Andrew Forrest's huge Australian renewables ambitions, has inked a supply deal with online retail giant Amazon. The post Amazon inks multi-billion green hydrogen supply deal with Forrest’s electrolyser partner appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 9, 2021

Small businesses selling on Amazon are getting new options for managing unwanted merchandise.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Partnering with The Nature Conservancy to monetarily support Amazonia farmers in their transition to regenerative agriculture and agroforestry.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 25, 2024

Rising demand from artificial intelligence is forcing big technology companies to look beyond wind and solar for clean energy.

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Renew Economy

MAY 17, 2022

Two solar farms contracted to help decarbonise the Australian power supply of global online retail giant Amazon have begun delivering energy to the grid. The post Two more NSW solar farms start sending power to the grid – and Amazon appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 6, 2024

Glacier has raised $7.7 million more to build sorting robots that can handle up to 30 types of materials.

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Cisco CSR

APRIL 11, 2024

This is the third blog in our three-part series about Cisco Foundation partner organizations working in the Amazon and South America region. You can read the other two, and more Climate Impact & … Read more on Cisco Blogs

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Both Amazon employees and outsiders say it's a welcome signal, but plan to continue to push the company on its climate goals.

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Stacey Higginbotham

MARCH 28, 2023

Amazon has opened up its Sidewalk low power wide-area network for all developers Tuesday, touting coverage for 90% of the U.S. Amazon first talked about its Sidewalk Network in September 2019 , explaining it as a network that would be able to send small amounts of data over distances of about three miles. population.

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Cisco CSR

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Security Specialist, Amazon Web Services – AISPL. Co-authored by Tejas Sheth, Sr. Risk-based Vulnerability Management (RBVM) represents a strategic approach to cyber security that focuses on… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Peru signed a deal last week that will redirect millions of dollars of international debt to environmental efforts in the Amazon rainforest, a move that could help it meet long-term conservation goals and reduce pressure from creditors. The post Can swapping debt for nature save the Amazon? to make the deal happen.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Amazon announced that it has achieved 100% recyclable delivery packaging in Europe. The achievement includes all boxes, bags and envelopes across all items sold by Amazon, as well as third-party selling partners that use Fulfilment by Amazon.

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Stacey Higginbotham

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Amazon has built a fleet of robots to help workers get packages from its warehouses to your door, and on Thursday it showed off two new ones. Amazon invited the press to visit its BOS27 robot innovation facility on Thursday so it could demonstrate progress in several different areas of its robotics and logistics business. Higginbotham.

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Cisco CSR

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This is the second blog in our three-part series about Cisco Foundation climate grantees working in the Amazon and South America region. You can read our first blog, about how Cisco Foundation… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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ESG Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Amazon announced that it invested in more than 100 new solar and wind energy projects in 2023, claiming the title of largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy for the fourth consecutive year, and bringing the company’s pipeline of clean energy capacity to greater than 77,000 GWh per year, roughly equivalent to the power needs of 7.2

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GreenBiz

JULY 7, 2021

Amazon's Adam Werbach on their climate pledge friendly program. This video is sponsored by Amazon. Lauren Phipps, Director & Senior Analyst of Circular Economy at GreenBiz, interviewed Adam Werbach, Global Lead of Sustainable Shopping at Amazon, during Circularity 21 (June 15-17, 2021). taylor flores.

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Sustainable Development Network

MARCH 27, 2024

[New York, USA, March 18, 2024] — The Amazon, the world's largest rainforest and river basin, faces urgent environmental challenges such as deforestation, degradation, and criminality. Participants will deeply explore the Amazon's origins, biodiversity, and cultural significance.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Launched in 2021, Project Ybá has empowered an Amazon community surrounding our operations in Breu Branco, Pará, Brazil, by developing a local cooperative that will sell the renewable bioactive products from Dow’s rainforest conserved area.

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Stacey Higginbotham

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Amazon launched a profusion of sensor-filled speakers , cameras, and televisions as well as services from its Eero Wi-Fi business and Ring security business on Wednesday as it doubled down on its idea of ambient intelligence. But to do this Amazon needs consumers to trust it and give them reasons to buy into the ecosystem.

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Cisco CSR

JUNE 2, 2023

Cisco is a partner of the Amazon Security Lake, supporting the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework At AWS re:Invent 2022, Cisco was proud to be a launch partner for Amazon Security Lake , a new AWS… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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Energy Central

JANUARY 2, 2024

” There is a summary and link to this earlier paper in “Amazon Update.” ” In the above paper, many of the “disruptions” were being implemented by Amazon, although their rapid growth over the last five years. Product Distribution Sectors.”

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This video is sponsored by Amazon. Jim Giles, Carbon Analyst at GreenBiz, interviewed Sally Fouts, Director of The Climate Pledge at Amazon, during VERGE 21 (October 25-28, 2021). View archived videos from the conference here: [link]

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Stacey Higginbotham

AUGUST 8, 2022

When Amazon said it would pay $1.7 Sure, I’m leery of bringing more Amazon products into my home, given the company’s willingness to share private data with law enforcement, but for me the biggest disappointment is that if the deal goes through, iRobot’s planned smart home OS, RobotOS, would be controlled by Amazon.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

Power company Engie announced today a new corporate power purchase agreement (CPPA) with Amazon, for the procurement of 473 MW of renewable energy from Ocean Winds’ Moray West offshore wind farm in Scotland. million homes. million homes. More than 90% of its operations were powered by renewables in 2023.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 21, 2023

Say you order an electric toothbrush and two shirts for yourself during a sale on Amazon. You unpack your order and discover that the electric toothbrush won’t charge and only one shirt … Continue reading Inside the black box of Amazon returns

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ESG Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

Hydrogen and fuel cell solutions company Plug Power announced it has completed the installation and commissioning of an electrolyzer system at an Amazon fulfillment center in Aurora, Colorado, enabling the company to produce low-carbon hydrogen to power equipment at the facility. The new electrolyzer is the first for Amazon.

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 30, 2024

From April 15 to 17, 2024, the Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA) met at the Universidad de los Andes, in Bogotá, Colombia. A key milestone will be the development of a new Amazon Assessment Report to be launched at COP30 in 2025, which will address crucial issues for the conservation and sustainable development of the region.

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ESG Today

MARCH 7, 2024

The funding round was led by venture investor New Enterprise Associates and Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, with additional participation from investors including AlleyCorp, Overture Climate VC, and VSC Ventures. That’s why we’re thrilled to collaborate with a sustainability leader like Amazon.”

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