Amazon

Announced it has invested in 78 new solar and wind energy projects so far in 2023. The company also built its first brownfield project, which will repurpose a polluted coal mine site in Maryland into a solar farm. This is expected to be the largest solar farm in the state, with more than 300,000 solar panels, and avoiding more than 133,000 tons of CO2 per year. PR »

Announced all delivery packaging in Europe will now be recyclable paper bags, cardboard envelopes or boxes, including third-party selling partners. Combined with shipping products without additional packaging, these efforts have avoided more than one billion single-use plastic bags in Europe since 2019. PR »

JP Morgan Chase & Co.

Set two new net-zero aligned targets for Shipping (33% reduction of Scope 1 tank-to-wake CO2 emissions) and for Aluminum (25% reduction of intensity of Scope 1 and 2 emissions). It also updated its emissions intensity reduction targets (for Oil & Gas Operational, Electric Power, and Auto Manufacturing) to align with the IEA’s Net Zero Emissions by 2050 Scenario, and modified its Oil & Gas End Use (Scope 3) target to a new “Energy Mix” target, expanding this to include zero carbon power generation, aligning it with IEA’s NZE Scenario, and aiming for a 36% reduction in emissions intensity by 2030. PR »

Unilever

Is piloting the production of synthetic soda ash with a “near-zero” GHG footprint (soda ash is a key ingredient in laundry powder and one of the most-used chemical compounds in the world). PR »