The e-commerce giant achieved a major sustainability milestone in 2024, delivering 1.5 billion packages via electric vehicles worldwide – more than doubling its EV fleet to 31,400 units and exceeding its India electrification target a year early. This achievement, detailed in Amazon’s latest Sustainability Report, comes alongside its fifth consecutive year as the world’s top corporate buyer of renewable energy, matching 100% of global operations with clean power.

Balancing Growth with Emissions Reduction
While Amazon’s absolute carbon emissions rose 6% to 68.25 million metric tons due to business expansion, the company highlighted a 40% reduction in carbon intensity since 2019. Key decarbonization efforts included:

• Procuring 3.7M gallons of sustainable aviation fuel
• Scaling renewable diesel use 16x year-over-year to 4.7M gallons
• Adding 124 new renewable energy projects (totaling 34 GW capacity)
• Entering nuclear energy through $500M investment in modular reactors

AI Efficiency Breakthroughs
Amazon Web Services countered AI’s energy demands with:

• Industry-leading 1.15 Power Usage Effectiveness (vs. 1.25 average)
• New data center components delivering 12% more compute power with 46% lower cooling energy
• 71,000 metric tons of CO₂ savings from Graviton chip adoption

Sustainable Operations Expansion
The company made strides across its value chain:

• Eliminated all plastic air pillows from packaging
• Achieved 85% landfill diversion rate
• Built 49 facilities with low-carbon materials, avoiding 77,000 metric tons of CO₂
• Piloted hydrogen-reduced steel in data center construction