The Climate Pledge, with its bold goal of net zero carbon by 2040—ten years earlier than specified by the Paris Agreement—presents a leadership opportunity for companies around the world to join together in taking urgent action on the climate crisis. Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge with Global Optimism in 2019, and became the first company to sign the pledge. The Climate Pledge currently has over 100 signatories, including Verizon, PepsiCo, Best Buy, Visa, Reckitt Benckiser (RB), Microsoft, Unilever, JetBlue Airways, Uber, and more.

The Climate Pledge calls on signatories to be net zero carbon across their businesses by 2040. Companies that sign the pledge commit to three principal areas of action:

• Measure and report greenhouse gas emissions on a regular basis;
• Implement decarbonization strategies in line with the Paris Agreement through real business changes and innovations, including efficiency improvements, renewable energy, materials reductions, and other carbon emission elimination strategies;
• Neutralize any remaining emissions with additional, quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially-beneficial offsets to achieve net zero annual carbon emissions by 2040.