Amazon’s Shipping and Delivery Emissions Just Keep Going Up

Amazon has pledged to put 100,000 electric delivery vans on the road by 2030 .

A new report finds that Amazon ’s US delivery vehicle emissions have potentially shot up an estimated 194 percent since the Climate Pledge went into place in 2019 .

Amazon does not break out details on its emissions associated with shipping and delivery.

The report is based on a mountain of third -party data and math equations.

In 2023 , the US shipped 21.7 billion parcels—that’s 687 packages every second.

Amazon 's overall emissions have skyrocketed since it rolled out the Climate Pledge in 2019 .

Amazon lost the support of a UN -backed global climate organization for not meeting certain deadlines to set targets to reduce emissions.

The Stand.earth report projects that at Amazon ’s current growth rates, if the company puts all the electric vans it promises on the roads by the end of the decade , that would still only account for a third of the company’s deliveries. If Amazon ’s sales keep growing on pace, it would need 400,000 EVs to deliver all its packages. “The 100,000 vans by 2030 is way too little, way too late,” Archer says..