Amazon is an e-commerce and cloud services company headquartered in Seattle.
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Amazon's absolute emissions rose 16% to 80.85 MtCO2e in 2025 despite intensity gains. Scope 3 surged 20% and remains unaudited. No SBTi-validated target exists. The company claims renewable energy matching but operates 15 Mt of fossil-fuel logistics annually. Nature and waste strategies lack absolute reduction commitments.
Amazon scores 27/100 (Significant gaps) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Fees pay for the review, never the result. Last verified October 2026.
That places Amazon joint 683rd of 847 companies scored, and 18th of 19 in E-commerce / Online Retail.
Where Amazon sits among e-commerce / online retail peers.
Among the 19 major e-commerce / online retail brands we've scored, Amazon sits 18th of 19.
Its three lowest-scoring questions, and what the evidence didn't show.
Amazon highlights intensity metrics (carbon per unit down 7%) but absolute emissions are not declining.
No SBTi-approved near-term absolute reduction target found.
No TNFD-aligned nature footprint disclosure found.
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See the breakdown →Amazon's score has been reviewed 2 times and currently stands where it started, at 27.
Fortune 50 re-score (owner-approved batch 1, 2026-10-17). History gap: the last recorded row is 27 (2026-02-08, initial_score), but the live score before this change was 25 (previousScore 29). The intermediate change(s) were not recorded at the time and are not reconstructed here.
Initial score at platform launch
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SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × Scale10 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
“Total Scope 1 (Direct) GHG emissions 15.41 MmtCO2e”
“Amazon's scope 1 emissions increased 2%, its scope 2 emissions — from purchased electricity — jumped 34%”
“Emissions from Indirect Sources (Scope 3)* 39.91 45.75 55.36 49.29 48.30 51.62 61.74 20 %”
“Products recognized by certifications in the Climate Pledge Friendly program available for customers to purchase”
“52% of fulfillment centers in North America did not ship plastic delivery packaging in 2025.”
“Amazon has become water positive, well ahead of our 2027 target”
“reputational damage resulting from perceptions of our environmental impact”
“Amazon sources its Amazon Basics paper products from suppliers who clearcut and burn centuries-old forests”
“consistently obstructive in their climate policy engagement”
“has removed Amazon from its list of companies taking action on climate goals after the tech behemoth failed to implement its commitment to set a credible target for reducing carbon emissions”
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Amazon is an e-commerce and cloud services company headquartered in Seattle. Founded in 1994 as an online bookstore, it now runs retail, logistics, digital advertising and AWS cloud infrastructure worldwide, with about 1.58 million employees and $716.9 billion in FY2025 net sales.
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