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Amazon Launches ‘Climate Pledge Friendly’ to Make It Easier for Customers to Discover and Shop for Sustainable Products

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon has announced Climate Pledge Friendly, a new program to help make it easy for customers to discover and shop for more sustainable products. Customers will now see the Climate Pledge Friendly label when searching for more than 25,000 products to signify that the products have one or more of 19 different sustainability certifications that help preserve the natural world, such as reducing the carbon footprint of shipments to customers. Climate Pledge Friendly, a new program to help make it easy for customers to discover and shop for more sustainable…

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Amazon’s New ‘Climate Pledge Friendly’ Program Helps Fairtrade Consumers to Choose the World They Want

Stuart Mitchell

Fairtrade today announced that it is participating in Amazon’s Climate Pledge Friendly program, making it easier for customers to discover and shop for more sustainable products on Amazon, including many Fairtrade-certified goods.  Launching in the US, customers will now see the Climate Pledge Friendly badge on more than 25,000 products, which will make it easier to identify which products are helping to preserve the natural world, such as through reducing the carbon footprint of shipments to customers. Amazon evaluated hundreds of external sustainability certifications and chose organizations that certify products…

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Amazon Announces First Recipients of Investments from $2 Billion Climate Pledge Fund

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon has announced the first recipients of investments from The Climate Pledge Fund: CarbonCure Technologies, Pachama, Redwood Materials, Rivian, and Turntide Technologies. The Climate Pledge Fund is a dedicated $2 billion venture investment program backing sustainable technologies and services that will help Amazon and other companies to meet The Climate Pledge—a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040. “The Climate Pledge Fund invests in visionary companies whose products and services can empower a low carbon economy,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. “Today, I am excited to announce that…

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Amazon Joins Forces with Lewis Capaldi for ‘Prime Day Live’, to Raise Funds for Grassroots Music Venues Across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon.co.uk has joined forces with chart-topping artist Lewis Capaldi,BBC Sound of 2020 winner and Amazon Music Ones To Watch2020 artist Celeste, and Welsh artist and producer Cate Le Bon for ‘Prime Day Live’, a special livestreamed event to raise awareness and funding for the nation’s much-loved grassroots music venues, which are now under threat of closure owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more at www.amazon.co.uk/primedaylive Prime Day Live, presented by Amazon Music and in support of Music Venue Trust, will stream from 7-9pm BST on Friday 9th October, 2020 at…

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Mercedes-Benz Joins The Climate Pledge and Delivers More Than 1,800 Electric Vehicles to Amazon’s Delivery Fleet in Europe

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon has announced it is adding more than 1,800 electric vehicles from Mercedes-Benz Vans to its delivery fleet in Europe this year. Amazon and Mercedes-Benz share a commitment to reduce emissions from the transportation sector, and Mercedes-Benz also announced today it has joined The Climate Pledge, which calls on signatories to be net zero carbon across their businesses by 2040—a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement goal of 2050. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200828005049/en/ Electric vehicle (Photo: Business Wire) “We welcome the bold leadership…

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