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Amazon ships goods on first zero-carbon Maersk ocean ship

September 14, 2023 — Maersk named its first-ever zero-emissions ocean ship, the Laura Maersk. Just recently, Amazon transported goods on this ship from Shanghai to Rotterdam. Amazon also recently finalized a 2023-2024 agreement with Maersk for the transport of 20,000 40-foot equivalent containers using methanol through Maersk’s “ECO Delivery” ocean product offering.

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Amazon, IKEA and other major brands invite bids for zero-emission shipping

September 13, 2023 — An alliance of freight buyers that includes e-commerce giant Amazon and the world’s largest furniture retailer IKEA has invited shipping lines to place their bids to move 600,000 containers over a three-year period on ships that offer a 90% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to traditional fossil fuels on a lifecycle basis.

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Amazon, IKEA, Patagonia and 20+ major brands launch initiative to accelerate the transition to zero-emission fuels

September 13, 2023 — Today, the Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA) announced a Request for Proposals (RfP) for 600,000 20-foot containers (TEUs) over a 3-year period on ocean vessels powered by zero-emission fuels. The mission of ZEMBA is to accelerate commercial deployment of zero-emission shipping, by leveraging companies’ collective buying power to accelerate the zero-emission vessel market and realize the ambition of zero-emission ocean shipping by 2040.

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Retailers and Carriers Fall Short on Ship It Zero’s Decarbonization Score Card

August 3, 2023 — Climate and public health campaign Ship it Zero says the results of its inaugural Shipping Decarbonisation Report Card put ‘retailers and carrier lines on notice to clean up their shipping problem.’

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Inaugural Report Card on Ocean Ship Pollution: Major Retailers, Ocean Carrier Lines Earn Failing Grades

August 3, 2023 — A report card released today by the Ship It Zero campaign reveals that few retailers and carrier lines are tracking their devastating climate change emissions from global ocean shipping. Additionally, few carriers are taking the necessary steps to decarbonize their shipping fleets in the face of the climate change crisis and are failing to limit shipping emissions to keep in the range of a 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F) global temperature rise. The shipping industry is failing to do its part to address the climate crisis, and today’s report card puts retailers and carrier lines on notice to clean up their shipping problem.

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Amazon ditches shipping, climate commitments

May 30, 2023 — Business Insider has reported that Amazon has ditched part of its climate pledge and deleted its blog post that announced the Shipment Zero initiative. Instead of continuing to target to make all of its shipments net zero carbon, with 50% of all shipments net zero by 2030, Amazon has ditched this commitment and rolled broader goals into its “Climate Pledge”.

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Amazon quietly ditched its plan to make half of all shipments carbon neutral by 2030

May 30, 2023 — An Amazon spokesperson told Fast Company that the change shouldn’t be taken to mean that the company wasn’t still working toward earlier internal goals. “Nothing has changed in our commitment to decarbonize our operations,” the spokesperson said. Will Evans, a reporter from the Center for Investigative Reporting who first discovered the change in policy, asked Amazon if the pledge had been eliminated because the company was going to miss the goal, and was told that wasn’t the case. Still, if the company was on track to hit the target, it’s not clear why they wouldn’t want to celebrate that publicly.

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New research finds top brands responsible for shipping pollution

March 4, 2023 — The Ship It Zero coalition released analysis that finds container ships filled with goods imported by 18 major consumer brands generated 3.5 million metric tons of climate pollution, the equivalent of what roughly 750,000 gas-powered cars generate in a year.

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New Report Reveals Ocean Shipping Emissions of Top U.S. Importers

March 4, 2023 — The top U.S. importers emitted 3.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gases from shipping during the height of the pandemic-driven imports surge in 2021, according to new research released today by the Ship It Zero campaign.

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Walmart, Target and Home Depot worst among US importers for emissions

March 4, 2023 — According to a report released yesterday by Ship It Zero, Walmart shipped 850,630 teu at a carbon cost of 788,019 tonnes of CO2.

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Companies must act to abandon dirty ships: New research names top brands responsible for shipping pollution

March 4, 2023 — New research released today by the Ship It Zero campaign finds that Walmart, Target and Home Depot were the largest ocean import polluters of 2021, as e-commerce demands skyrocketed in the U.S. and globally.

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Retailers With Highest Maritime Shipping Emissions Named in New Report

March 4, 2023 — The All Brands on Deck report, created by Ship It Zero, Pacific Environment and Stand.earth, named 18 retailers tied to the greenhouse gas emissions from importing their goods into the U.S.

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Walmart, Target, Home Depot lead pack of retailers emitting millions of pounds of CO2 through shipping

March 4, 2023 — A new report from the nonprofits Pacific Environment and Stand.earth finds that the ships that carried imports for 18 of the U.S.’s largest retail, fashion, tech, and furniture companies emitted about 3.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gases in 2021, about as much as the annual climate pollution from 750,000 passenger cars.

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Companies must act to abandon dirty ships: New research names top brands responsible for shipping pollution

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Amazon Announces Adoption of Zero-Emission Fuel following Revelation of 2021 Carbon Emissions Spike

August 30, 2022 — Amazon announced that it would adopt green hydrogen – starting in 2025 – to decarbonize its operations. The contract will provide power for 30,000 forklifts or 800 heavy-duty trucks. Even though ocean shipping was mentioned in the announcement, Amazon did not give a firm commitment to when it would green its ocean cargo shipping operations.

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Maersk is First Shipping Company to Join Amazon’s Climate Pledge

March 16, 2022 — Nearly 100 additional companies, including Maersk, have joined The Climate Pledge, an environmental imitative in part led by Amazon where signatories commit to achieving full decarbonization of their operations by 2040, ten years ahead of the Paris Agreement.

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Maersk to Test Electric Charging Stations for Ports, Reducing Emissions From Fossil-fueled Ocean Cargo Ships by 5 Million Tons a Year Overall

January 26, 2022 — The Ship it Zero coalition applauded Maersk’s announcement to move towards zero-emissions shipping and called on other major shipping companies, like CMA-CGM, MSc, Cosco, Evergreen, and Yang Ming to follow its lead and continue building on this horizon of hope for our shared future.

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Maersk Accelerates Ocean Shipping Climate Ambitions by Decade Aims to Halve Climate Emissions by 2030 and Achieve Net Zero Emissions by 2040

January 12, 2022 — Major shipping corporation Maersk has announced plans to achieve net zero climate emissions in its business by 2040, a decade earlier than the company’s initial climate commitment made just four years ago.

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‘Warehouses in their backyards’: when Amazon expands, these communities pay the price

December 10, 2021 — The neighborhood is one of hundreds across the US where Amazon’s dramatic expansion has set in motion huge commercial operations. Residents near the new warehouses say they face increased air pollution from trucks and vans, more dangerous streets for kids walking or biking and other quality-of-life issues such as clogged traffic and near-constant noise.

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Groundbreaking new research uncovers close ties between polluting cargo carriers, major U.S. retailers

November 29, 2021 — New research released by Ship It Zero coalition members takes an in-depth look at four major retail companies that import goods into the United States — Walmart, Target, Amazon, and IKEA — and maps their often-hidden relationships with the fossil-fueled cargo carriers they hire to transport their goods.

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COP26: Ship It Zero coalition welcomes Amazon participation in First Movers Coalition

November 4, 2021 — Ship It Zero said the First Movers Coalition has potential, particularly since it sets targets for action this decade, by 2030.

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‘It was all worth it’: Stakeholders celebrate opening of Climate Pledge Arena at Seattle Center

October 28, 2021 — Climate Pledge Arena at Seattle Center is now officially open to the public.

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Big shippers promise zero carbon by 2040. Too late, say climate activists

October 27, 2021 — Major shippers including Amazon, Ikea, and Unilever say they will stop putting their stuff on ships that burn fossil fuels in the next 20 years.

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Amazon, Ikea and other big companies commit to zero-emission shipping by 2040

October 19, 2021 — In an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in global trade, a coalition of companies that includes Amazon and Ikea has pledged to use only ocean shippers that use zero-carbon fuel by 2040.

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Amazon, Ikea and Unilever pledge zero emission shipping by 2040

October 19, 2021 — Amazon, Ikea, Unilever and Michelin are among nine multinational companies that have committed to switching all of their ocean freight to vessels powered by zero-carbon fuels by 2040.

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Amazon and others commit to using zero-carbon shipping fuels by 2040

October 19, 2021 — Amazon and IKEA are among commercial users of container shipping that will opt for zero-carbon marine fuels by 2040 in a new initiative aimed at speeding up decarbonisation in the maritime sector.

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Amazon, Ikea and Unilever pledge zero-carbon shipping by 2040

October 19, 2021 — Nine big companies including Amazon, Ikea and Unilever have signed up to a pledge to only move cargo on ships using zero-carbon fuel by 2040.

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Climate Advocates: Big Retail Fossil-Free Shipping Commitment Historic, But Too Weak

October 19, 2021 — Global retail giants including Amazon and IKEA today announced a landmark commitment to move their products off of fossil-fueled maritime cargo ships by 2040, but environmental organizations with the Ship It Zero coalition say the commitment is too weak to address the urgent climate and public health crises tied to the ocean shipping sector.

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Amazon Day of Action: Demands from Asthma Alley

October 14, 2021 — Watch as friends of Ship It Zero gather in Long Beach, CA —notoriously nicknamed "Asthma Alley"— to highlight the harrowing community health impacts of port pollution and call for an end to Amazon's fossil-fueled ocean shipping.

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Watch the world premiere: All Aboard Ship It Zero

September 30, 2021 — Ship It Zero has hit the big screen! We’re proud to premiere All Aboard Ship It Zero. Watch the video to understand the problem with dirty ocean shipping — and the solutions.

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Zero-Emission Shipping | Cronkite News

September 9, 2021 — The demand for everything Amazon delivers only seems to grow, but environmental activists are demanding use of zero-emission shipping to reduce the impact of transportation on our air and oceans.

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Climate activists call out Amazon’s ship pollution

September 1, 2021 — Climate activists with the Ship It Zero coalition gathered near major American ports on Tuesday, as part of two separate events demanding that retail giant Amazon transitions to zero-emissions cargo shipping vessels.

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Campaigners call for retail shipping to commit to zero emissions by 2030

August 20, 2021 — The US retail sector should urgently begin its transition to zero-emissions shipping by 2030, says a report from Stand.earth and Pacific Environment.

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Major Retailers Linked to Polluting Shipping Practices that Harm Public Health and Climate

July 20, 2021 — Report is first to use previously inaccessible cargo and supply chain data, finds fifteen companies responsible for as much sulfur oxide, nitrous oxide, and particulate matter pollution as tens of millions of vehicles and the climate pollution equivalent to 1.5 million homes.

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A new report says Amazon is polluting the oceans with 22 million pounds of plastics per year

December 15, 2020 — Our oceans are filling up with plastic. Between 4.8 and 12.7 million metric tons of the stuff enter the waterways each year, disrupting the ecosystem, littering beaches, and killing countless sea-dwelling creatures.

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New poll finds a majority of Americans would change where they shop to support cleaner ships

November 17, 2020 — 74 percent say they’d be more likely to shop at a company that used cleaner shipping practices.

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Natural Gas Won’t Decarbonize Shipping, But The Fuel Is Here To Stay

February 4, 2020 — Investments in LNG-powered ships are growing despite debate over the impact gas will have on the environment.

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How Amazon plans to make half its shipments carbon-neutral by 2030

February 21, 2019 — Though the company denies it, its new goal comes after pressure from workers and shareholders to do something about its huge carbon footprint.

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