Amazon and Global Optimism announced that The Climate Pledge has been signed by more than 300 companies. Among the nearly 100 new signatories joining is the world’s largest container shipping company, Maersk.
The signatories of The Climate Pledge commit to achieving full decarbonization of their operations by 2040.
Maersk becomes the first large shipping company to join the program. At the moment, 312 organizations have signed the pledge. The initiative was co-founded in 2019 by Amazon and Global Optimism, an environmental activist group.
Signatories to The Climate Pledge must agree to:
- Measure and report greenhouse gas emissions on a regular basis.
- Implement decarbonization strategies in line with the Paris Agreement through real business changes and innovations, including efficiency improvements, renewable energy, materials reductions, and other carbon emission elimination strategies.
- Neutralize any remaining emissions with additional, quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially beneficial offsets to achieve net-zero annual carbon emissions by 2040.
The effects of climate change are becoming more and more apparent in our surroundings and daily lives, and we firmly believe that the private sector must continue to innovate and collaborate across regions and industries in order to decarbonise the global economy at scale
said Andy Jassy, Amazon CEO.
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Maersk has also committed to expanding its green customer offerings, including a commitment to achieve 25% of ocean cargo transported with green fuels, 90% green operations for contract logistics and cold chain, and at least 30% of air cargo transported with sustainable aviation fuel by 2030.
At the moment, Maersk is investing in innovative new fuels, vessels, electrical trucks, network planning software, information sharing technology, and many more areas. This includes the order of 12 vessels that will be capable of operating on green methanol and will be operational in 2024.
Solving the climate emergency and decarbonising our customers’ supply chains is a strategic imperative for Maersk
…said Soren Skou, A.P. Moller – Maersk CEO.
Hence, back in January 2021 we accelerated our decarbonisation commitment to net-zero emissions by 2040—a decade ahead of our initial 2050 ambitions and the Paris Agreement. To drive the massive scale up of green fuels, we all must move now and take action.
concluded and continued saying that “If we are meant to see changes this decade, we cannot afford to wait, and in that context, we look forward to joining The Climate Pledge, an opportunity to team up with some of our major customers, learn from them, and share best practices and solutions.”
