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JACK ALYMER: AMAZON WANTS YOU TO KNOW ABOUT THEIR CLEAN POWER PROGRESS.
BUT ITS EMPLOYEES WANT YOU TO KNOW THE COMPANY MIGHT NOT BE TELLING THE WHOLE TRUTH.
AMAZON RECENTLY ANNOUNCED IT HAS MET ITS GOAL TO RUN 100 PERCENT ON RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY.
DOING SO SEVEN YEARS EARLIER THAN INITIAL PROJECTIONS.
HOWEVER, A GROUP CALLED THE AMAZON EMPLOYEES FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE IS PUSHING BACK ON THAT ASSERTION.
THEY SAY ONLY ABOUT 22 PERCENT OF THE COMPANY’S OPERATIONS ACTUALLY RUN ON CLEAN POWER.
THESE EMPLOYEES ALSO DID SOME ADDITIONAL DIGGING INTO THE PURPORTED SUCCESS OF AMAZON’S SUSTAINABILITY GOALS.
THEY FOUND THAT THE COMPANY DRAMATICALLY UNDERCOUNTS THE CARBON POLLUTION IT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR.
YOU CAN BUY A WIDE RANGE OF PRODUCTS FROM AMAZON’S WEBSITE, MOST OF WHICH AREN’T ACTUALLY MADE BY THE COMPANY.
SO BECAUSE AMAZON DOESN’T MAKE THEM, THEY DON’T FACTOR THE LIFE CYCLE EMISSIONS OF THOSE GOODS INTO THEIR CARBON FOOTPRINT CALCULATIONS.
INSTEAD, ALL THAT IS COUNTED ARE THE PRODUCTS AMAZON ACTUALLY MANUFACTURES ITSELF.
WHICH MAKES UP JUST ONE PERCENT OF THE COMPANY’S TOTAL SALES.
MEANWHILE, AMAZON CLAIMS IT HAS INVESTED BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS ACROSS THE GLOBE-
INCLUDING MORE THAN 500 WIND AND SOLAR PROJECTS-
WHICH ALL TOGETHER ARE CAPABLE OF GENERATING ENOUGH ENERGY TO POWER THE EQUIVALENT OF OVER SEVEN-AND-A-HALF MILLION U.S. HOMES.
THE COMPANY SAYS THIS REPRESENTS AN IMPORTANT MILESTONE IN ITS COMMITMENT TO REACH NET-ZERO CARBON OPERATIONS BY 20-40.
A GOAL SOME OF ITS WORKERS BELIEVE AMAZON WILL FAIL TO ACHIEVE.
JACK AYLMER – STRAIGHT ARROW NEWS.