Amazon Grants IDR 28 Trillion To Fight Climate Change

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JAKARTA - The largest e-commerce company in the world, Amazon is concerned about environmental pollution problems that are increasingly happening. One form of concern, by opening the Amazon Climate Pledge campaign to reduce the amount of emissions and industrial waste in the future.

Summarized from ZDNet, Wednesday, June 24, Amazon has poured out funds of around US $ 2 billion or equivalent to Rp28 trillion to reduce the greenhouse gas effect. This is in line with the initiation of The Climate Pledge which began in 2019, in order to make the earth zero carbon by 2040.

"Companies from around the world, of all sizes and stages will be considered, from pre-product startups to established companies. Every prospective investment will be judged on its potential to accelerate the path to zero carbon and help protect the planet for future generations," said Amazon founder and CEO. , Jeff Bezos.

Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, will later invest in companies and industries engaged in the renewable energy business. So that in the future, the transportation and logistics industry can take advantage of manufacturing and materials that are more environmentally friendly.

To become zero carbon, this e-commerce company is targeting its industrial sector to use renewable energy resources within the next five years. Despite this commitment, Amazon's industrial sector also generates 51 million metric tons of waste.

This waste comes from the cardboard packaging that is used to ship goods. The reason is that most of the cardboard packaging used does not use recycled materials, so it becomes useless waste.

Amazon has also been criticized by hundreds of its employees for investing in the gas and oil industry. At that time, the Amazon was incessantly campaigning for the forest and land reforestation movement to combat climate change.