Ship It Zero announced the release of its 2024 Retailer Shipping Decarbonization Progress Reports, which call upon IKEA, LG, Samsung, and Home Depot to improve their performance by 2025.
The progress report follows Ship It Zero’s 2023 Report Card, where the campaign graded more than two dozen retailers and shipping carriers on their efforts to decarbonize and develop zero-emission fuels for maritime shipping.
Ship It Zero is a climate and public health campaign to move the world’s largest retail companies to 100% zero-emission ocean shipping. Ship It Zero is pushing corporations to take responsibility for their ocean shipping pollution and lead the way to climate-friendly, clean-air shipping practices.
Amazon: At risk of failure
Amazon is not using its full sphere of influence and resources to achieve zero-emission maritime shipping in accordance with its commitment. From 2019 to 2023, while these efforts were underway, Amazon’s maritime emissions actually increased by 26%. Its pledge to reach net zero by 2040 is not aligned with science-based targets to prevent further climate chaos and it has failed to disclose a roadmap to reach this goal.
The Home Depot: At risk of failure
As the largest retailer in home improvement, Home Depot has the market-shaping power to transform maritime shipping from polluting fossil fuels to zero-emission operations. Its ambitious Scope 1 and Scope 2 reduction targets—40% by 2030 and 50% by 2035—show climate ambition. However, beyond these targets, Home Depot has taken little action toward zero-emission maritime shipping, which would greatly cut its Scope 3 emissions.
IKEA: Not much change
IKEA is a company that has taken concrete action to decarbonize its maritime shipping logistics operations in recent years. As one of the largest furniture retailers in the world, IKEA has been ambitious in making good on the goal of becoming climate positive by 2030. Unfortunately, IKEA has not yet leveraged its influence and those early successes to help motivate industry peers to embark on their own efforts to decarbonize.
LG: At risk of failure
From the smartphones on to the washers and dryers to the refrigerators, the electronics mega retailer LG’s presence in people’s daily lives is nearly ubiquitous. Unfortunately, LG has failed to publicly show it can be a corporate leader in reducing the climate emissions of shipping those products that are used daily. While LG does purport lofty climate goals in the long term, its apparent lack of action suggests that LG may not be deeply committed to a zero-emission ocean shipping future.
Samsung: At risk of failure
Samsung is a global business leader providing electronics and technology that help drive people’s lives. From holding 30% of the premium TV market share worldwide to shipping 226 million smartphones in 2023, Samsung is a force in the market. However Samsung is not doing more to address its impact on the climate. While Samsung supports its “net zero” goals for 2050, those goals and the plans to achieve them have remained vague and not nearly ambitious enough to address the climate crisis.
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