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Carbon emissions5/19/2023 ![]() These developments meant we had to build new facilities-for both our consumer and cloud businesses-and expand our transportation network. At the same time, an increasing number of companies around the world moved their technology to the cloud, gaining significant speed, innovation, and cost advantages, and AWS grew its revenue by 37% year-over-year in 2021. From early 2020 to the end of 2021, we created more than 750,000 full-time and part-time jobs worldwide and doubled the size of the fulfillment network that we had built over the previous 25 years. We have scaled our business at an unprecedented pace to help meet the needs of our customers through the pandemic. In reducing their carbon footprint through investment and innovation, we will enable even greater efficiency and more-sustainable choices for our customers.Īs we work to decarbonize our company, Amazon is growing rapidly. While some of these businesses-including cloud computing and e-commerce-offer greater efficiencies, some are more carbon-intensive endeavors. We operate businesses-delivery and transportation logistics, physical stores, grocery, manufacturing, and cloud computing services-that involve moving products, manufacturing goods, and creating computing capacity, all at scale. ![]() ![]() This is especially true for a business of the size and broad scope of Amazon. The path to decarbonization remains challenging. Since we created the Pledge in 2019, more than 300 companies have joined Amazon in making this commitment. That’s why we co-founded The Climate Pledge, a commitment to reach net-zero carbon by 2040-10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. With the ‘ Federal Climate Change Act’, binding annual emission quantities as well as a monitoring and sharpening mechanisms for the individual sectors were agreed upon in order to ensure the greenhouse gas reduction target of 'at least 65 %' by 2030 and greenhouse gas neutrality in 2045.Climate change is one of the world’s greatest crises, and to address it, the public and private sectors need to act together. The German government has therefore initiated measures in the form of the ‘Climate Action Programme 2020' (BMUB 2014) and the ‘ Climate Action Programme 2030’ (BReg 2019). The development to date makes it clear that intensive efforts in climate protection are necessary to achieve the targets. After a period of stagnation, emissions have fallen significantly in 2017 to 2022, mainly due to increased emissions trading certificate prices and the expansion of renewable energies.Īt the end of 2015, a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol was agreed with the Paris Convention. Excluding the low values in certain years with special circumstances, the indicator follows a long-term downward trend. ![]() ![]() Overall, this corresponds to a reduction of over 40 %. Greenhouse gas emissions in Germany have fallen since 1990: from 1,251 million tonnes of CO 2 equivalents in 1990 to 746 million tonnes in 2022 – a significant decrease following the emissions of the years 20, which were characterized by extraordinary factors. ![]()
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