Jan 21, 2026 · 49 min · 20 segments
Jamey Mulligan, Head of Carbon Neutralization Science and Strategy at Amazon, joins Climate Rising to share how Amazon is tackling its net-zero climate goals, particularly through its engagement in…
Mike ToffelHost
But there's lots of other important businesses that Amazon runs that have, um, pretty impactful emissions as well.
I think if you can think of a hard-to-abate source of emissions, it's probably somewhere in our value chain, whether it's in our direct operations or it's somewhere upstream or maybe downstream, uh, within our value chain.
So, of course, we do have a, a transportation, a fulfillment network, and so there's our last mile transportation emissions associated with that, that we're working diligently to electrify and eliminate.
We also have a, a grocery chain, so we have agriculture sector emissions are, are upstream of, of our grocery stores.
Um, we build a lot of buildings, both, both data centers and, and fulfillment centers, and so-Sort of the construction industry and, uh, embodied emissions in buildings as part of our footprint.
It also means that we get to work and innovate on basically every corner of the cli-climate mitigation agenda.
So with all of that going on, that's an, an incredible array of emissions, uh, sources.
How does Amazon think about drawing the line as to what is it going to prioritize in its efforts, uh, i- maybe even in the short run versus the long run?
That's a question every company needs to grapple with, and, and there are lots of kind of voices on all sides.
Do it that way." Um, we like to cut that noise out and really focus on what the science is saying is required, and we wanna keep pace.
But there's lots of other important businesses that Amazon runs that have, um, pretty impactful emissions as well.
I think if you can think of a hard-to-abate source of emissions, it's probably somewhere in our value chain, whether it's in our direct operations or it's somewhere upstream or maybe downstream, uh, within our value chain.
So, of course, we do have a, a transportation, a fulfillment network, and so there's our last mile transportation emissions associated with that, that we're working diligently to electrify and eliminate.
We also have a, a grocery chain, so we have agriculture sector emissions are, are upstream of, of our grocery stores.
Um, we build a lot of buildings, both, both data centers and, and fulfillment centers, and so-Sort of the construction industry and, uh, embodied emissions in buildings as part of our footprint.
It also means that we get to work and innovate on basically every corner of the cli-climate mitigation agenda.
So with all of that going on, that's an, an incredible array of emissions, uh, sources.
How does Amazon think about drawing the line as to what is it going to prioritize in its efforts, uh, i- maybe even in the short run versus the long run?
That's a question every company needs to grapple with, and, and there are lots of kind of voices on all sides.
Do it that way." Um, we like to cut that noise out and really focus on what the science is saying is required, and we wanna keep pace.
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