Amazon and Global Optimism have announced 100 new signatories to the Climate Pledge, an initiative launched in 2019 for businesses to pursue carbon-reduction activities to achieve net-zero carbon by 2040.

Signatories of the pledge must agree to measure and report greenhouse gas emissions, implement decarbonization strategies in line with the Paris Agreement, and neutralize any remaining emissions with additional quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially beneficial offsets. New signatories include shipping company Maersk; enterprise software developer SAP; timberland company Weyerhaeuser; residential solar company Sunrun; and car and audio services provider HARMAN. To date, more than 300 companies that generate a combined $3.5 trillion in global revenue and employ more than eight million people across 51 industries in 29 countries have committed to the pledge.

“In the face of great peril, which is what the latest science depicts, the business community must have a clear path forward: Step up and accelerate emissions reductions so that we might avoid the worst of the damages yet to come,” said Christiana Figueres, founding partner of Global Optimism and the United Nations’ former climate chief. “It’s encouraging, therefore, that 300 companies are committed to working together to achieve net-zero by 2040 or sooner through the Climate Pledge. But 300 companies are not enough to deliver the transformations we need. I encourage all business leaders to get to grips with the science, translate it for their businesses, and enable the changes we need without delay.”

For a complete list of signatories, as well as actions they are taking to decarbonize their businesses, see the Climate Pledge website.

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