Amazon sustainability score: 27/100
Amazon is an e-commerce and cloud services company headquartered in Seattle. Founded in 1994 as an online bookstore, it now runs retail, logistics, digital advertising and AWS cloud infrastructure worldwide, with about 1.58 million employees and $716.9 billion in FY2025 net sales.
Founded 1994Head office Seattle, USStaff ~1,576,000 (FY2025)Revenue $716,924M net sales (FY2025)Website ↗
Amazon's absolute emissions rose 16% to 80.85 MtCO2e in 2025 despite intensity gains. Scope 3 surged 20% and remains unaudited. The Science Based Targets initiative lists its commitment as removed; its stated goal is net-zero emissions by 2040 under The Climate Pledge. The company claims renewable energy matching but operates 15 Mt of fossil-fuel logistics annually. Nature and waste strategies lack absolute reduction commitments.
Amazon scores 27/100 (Significant gaps) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Scores are free. Companies can never pay for anything about their own score. Last verified October 2026.
That places Amazon joint 759th of 934 companies scored, and 22nd of 24 in E-commerce / Online Retail.
What is Amazon doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Carbon Footprint: Operations and Energy Source (8/10, 7/10). Weakest on Emissions Trajectory and Targets & Commitments (0/10, 2/10).
Where Amazon lost points
For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.
- Emissions from its own operations8/10No verified figures published with their method and a falling trend.
- Emissions from its supply chain6/10No full value-chain map or supplier engagement programme.
- Whether its emissions are falling0/10No evidence its emissions are falling, not even from energy bills or mileage.
- How clean its energy is7/10Less than 90% of its energy shown to be renewable.
- Its effect on nature4/10Its effect on nature isn't measured or independently verified.
- How it uses materials and handles waste4/10No measurable waste or recycling targets reported publicly.
- Its effect on water5/10No measured water footprint with reduction targets.
- Its climate targets2/10No specific targets with dates.
- How openly it reports6/10No annual impact report, or no pay linked to climate targets.
- Its record on controversies5/10Points deducted for controversies or its business model. The finding is under question 10.
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How is Amazon's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleHas Amazon's score changed?
Amazon's score has been reviewed 2 times and currently stands where it started, at 27.
- 27 → 2717 October 2026
Fortune 50 re-score (owner-approved batch 1, 2026-10-17). History gap: the last recorded row is 27 (2026-02-08, initial_score), but the live score before this change was 25 (previousScore 29). The intermediate change(s) were not recorded at the time and are not reconstructed here.
- Scored 278 February 2026
Initial score at platform launch
What evidence is Amazon's score based on?
10 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
30% of them were published by Amazon itself; the rest come from independent sources.
“Total Scope 1 (Direct) GHG emissions 15.41 MmtCO2e”
“Amazon's scope 1 emissions increased 2%, its scope 2 emissions — from purchased electricity — jumped 34%”
“Emissions from Indirect Sources (Scope 3)* 39.91 45.75 55.36 49.29 48.30 51.62 61.74 20 %”
“Products recognized by certifications in the Climate Pledge Friendly program available for customers to purchase”
“52% of fulfillment centers in North America did not ship plastic delivery packaging in 2025.”
“Amazon has become water positive, well ahead of our 2027 target”
“reputational damage resulting from perceptions of our environmental impact”
“Amazon sources its Amazon Basics paper products from suppliers who clearcut and burn centuries-old forests”
“consistently obstructive in their climate policy engagement”
“has removed Amazon from its list of companies taking action on climate goals after the tech behemoth failed to implement its commitment to set a credible target for reducing carbon emissions”
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How does Amazon compare with other e-commerce / online retail companies?
Where Amazon sits among e-commerce / online retail peers.
Among the 24 major e-commerce / online retail brands we've scored, Amazon sits 22nd of 24.
Who scores higher in E-commerce / Online Retail?
The 3 companies in the sector scoring nearest above Amazon.
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