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Amazon's carbon emigrations jumped 18 last time, as the company reckoned with a epidemic- driven swell ine-commerce and grew its business to meet that redundant demand. 

In its periodic sustainability report issued Monday, Amazon said its conditioning emitted the fellow of 71.54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2021. That is over 18 from 2020, and an increase of nearly 40 from 2019, the time Amazon first began telling its carbon foot mark.

 
Amazon lowered its carbon intensity, which measures emigrations per bone of deals, by1.9 in 2021, compared with a 16 decline in 2020. 

The Covid- 19 epidemic led to a massive affluence of orders at Amazon and othere-commerce companies. numerous consumers, flush with encouragement check plutocrat, decided to do their shopping online to avoid risking exposure to the contagion. 

That surge of demand pushed Amazon to expand its logistics network of delivery vans, aeroplanes and exchanges. It also fleetly opened new storages to reuse the sluice of orders. During the time ended 2021, Amazon doubled the size of the fulfillment network it had erected over the former 25 times, the company said. 

The company also added further data centers to support Amazon Web Services, as the epidemic sped up pots' shift to the pall.

 
Amazon unveiled its" Climate Pledge" in 2019. As part of the plan, thee-commerce mammoth has committed to be carbon neutral by 2040, and it bought,000 electric delivery vans from Rivian Automotive that it expects to have on the road in theU.S. By 2030.

It also launched a$ 2 billion adventure capital fund to invest in new climate technologies, incompletely so that they may be used to foster its sustainability pretensions. 

Amazon's climate record and the ways it measures its own environmental record have faced scrutiny, still. A report before this time by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting set up the company, in discrepancy to major retailers similar as Target and Walmart, only counts product carbon emigrations from the use of Amazon- ingrained goods, and not those it buys from manufacturers and sells directly to the client. 

An Amazon prophet did not directly address the distinction in reporting, but said the company follows guidance from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard in determining its compass 3 emigrations, or emigrations generated from a company's force chain. 

The prophet added that Amazon third- party merchandisers" control their own carbon emigrations account."