Amazon's carbon footprint spread 18% in 2021
Amazon increased its total carbon footprint by 18 percent during 2021, despite promises to transition entirely to renewable energy for its operations before the end of the decade.
The company blamed COVID-19 on the shift, saying it had scaled its business at an unprecedented pace during the last two years to sell more stuff to customers during the pandemic. From early 2020 to the end of 2021, Amazon claims it doubled the size of its fulfilment network, and creating more than 750,000 full-time and part-time jobs worldwide.
The company’s Scope 3 emissions from indirect sources – such as the supply chain – rose 21 percent, of which 46 percent was accounted for by buildings construction, and purchased goods such as servers and other hardware. AWS has spent considerable resources on boosting efficiency, the company said, and listed its rollout ofthat are claimed to use up to 60 percent less energy for the same performance as one such measure.
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