How to Reduce Your Carbon Intensity

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There was a recent article in the Verge that called out that your own sustainability report says Amazon's carbon emissions grew 18% from 20 to 21 and 40% from 19. Is that because as the percentage of net zeroe activity improves, if the volume of your business is growing even faster, you're kind of chasing your own growth? Yeah, I think that's exactly it, Bob. I mean, this is a super tricky area. Like the goals and the progress are great. And at the same time, it can be more complicated than it looks.

Amazon wants to get bigger, but with that scale comes great responsibility. So says Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services, the most profitable and fastest growing part of the tech giant. Selipsky, who also oversees Amazon’s climate change efforts, points to two additions to the company’s vaunted “Leadership Principles” as evidence of Amazon’s commitment. Arguing that AWS is still in early days, he shares what he’s hearing from other CEOs about their biggest concerns, why “carbon intensity” is the best measure of climate progress for businesses, and what Amazon's aspiration to be “Earth’s best employer” really means.

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