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Amazon Plans To Make 50% of Shipments Net Zero Carbon by 2030 (venturebeat.com)
Amazon says it hopes to make 50 percent of all shipments to customers with net zero carbon in the next 11 years as part of an initiative it's calling Shipment Zero. From a report: It also announced that it'll share a report detailing its companywide carbon footprint -- along with "related goals and programs" -- later this year, and that it'll continue to use customer feedback to "enable" and "encourage" its supply chain partners to reduce their environmental impact. The initiative builds on the Seattle retailer's ongoing work to minimize its contributions to greenhouse gases, Dave Clark, senior vice president of worldwide operations at Amazon, explained in a blog post.
Amazon currently has over 200 scientists, engineers, and product designers dedicated to "inventing new ways" to "leverage [its] scale" for the "good of customers and the planet," he said, and has engaged in an "extensive" project over the past two years to develop a model that provides internal teams with data to help them identify ways to reduce carbon use.
Amazon currently has over 200 scientists, engineers, and product designers dedicated to "inventing new ways" to "leverage [its] scale" for the "good of customers and the planet," he said, and has engaged in an "extensive" project over the past two years to develop a model that provides internal teams with data to help them identify ways to reduce carbon use.
If Apple is 50% of their customer base, Apple will need to go all the way to their warehouses to pickup the products to meet zero carbon admissions by Amazon.
This of course highlights one the biggest problems of our time, hacking metrics to meet the number, but not solve the problem the number is trying to show.
I have seen across many industries. A department installs their own ticket tracking system, so all tickets that go on the Enterprise tracking system, are quickly closed, and transferred to their own. So the execs see that department keeps their tickets in good timing, while the actual problems in the tickets are not being resolved.
Lowering budget costs, by transferring the cost into an other payment unit. For example laying off employees, and hiring a contractor at twice the amount, because a contractor fee is paid in a different budgeting area, which the company may have extra money.
The problem is too many people just look at the numbers, and do not bother digging past them to see what is causing them.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.