Many large companies like Apple, Amazon and Microsoft are rethinking their supply chains and carbon footprints after pressure from consumers and employees to address their role in climate change.
More and more of the world’s leading companies are responding to the urgent need to address the growing threat of climate change and help create the net-zero carbon economies of the future. They are embracing the opportunity to drive innovation, increase competitiveness, enhance risk management and stimulate growth.
Below are just some of the growing number of companies demonstrating not only bold ambition, but also tangible progress against their climate targets.

1. Microsoft Corp.

Microsoft said it would be carbon negative by 2030, and that by 2050 it hopes to have sequestrated enough carbon to account for all the direct emissions the company has ever made.
The Windows operating system maker said it would fund the program with an internal carbon fee, and that its new climate innovation fund would invest $1 billion over the next four years into new technologies to reduce its carbon footprint.

Microsoft expects to generate 16 million metric tons of CO2 in 2020, including indirect emissions from activities like corporate travel.

2. Salesforce

Salesforce.com, Inc. – the American cloud-based software company with a market cap of over $122 billion – was ranked #2 in Barron’s 2018 list of 100 Most Sustainable Companies.
The company achieved its goal of net-zero GHG emissions back in 2018, through a combination of emissions reductions and offsetting.
The company is also committed to sourcing 100% renewable electricity for global operations by 2022, with RE100, and is a member of the EP100 initiative – through the Net Zero Carbon Buildings pathway, committing to owning and occupying only buildings that are net-zero carbon in operation by 2030.

In addition, Salesforce is partnering with its top suppliers, that are responsible for 50% of its total supplier-related emissions, to set their own emissions reduction targets by 2025.
These are just some of the companies helping to accelerate the transition to the zero-carbon economy. Over 1,000 companies have committed to bold climate action through the We Mean Business partner initiatives.

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3. Rolls Royce: Engineering a zero-carbon future

Rolls-Royce is applying its world-class engineering capabilities and years of experience in hybrid and electrical power to be part of the solution to society’s greatest technological challenge. The company is pioneering the electrification of flight, while building on its innovations in rail, marine and power.
Rolls-Royce has ambitious targets to reduce GHG emissions associated with its operations and facilities to net-zero by 2030.
In Rolls-Royce’s own operations, the company has reduced GHG emissions by 21%, energy consumption by 20% and waste to landfill by 67% since 2014.
However, Rolls-Royce has also improved the efficiency of commercial flight by more than 40%, compared to the first generation of gas turbine aero engines. And it has the world’s most efficient aero engines flying today, the Trent XWB, powering the Airbus A35, and the company’s new Pearl 15 engine for business aircraft which includes an ultra-low emissions combustion system, delivering a 7% improvement in specific fuel consumption and best in class NOx emissions.

4. Apple.inc

The iPhone maker last March said that it had reduced carbon emissions by 64 percent since 2011, preventing 2.8 million metric tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere.
It also said it had doubled the number of suppliers using only clean energy for production and was on track to add 4 gigawatts of renewable energy to the power used by its supply chain by 2020.
In December, Apple bought the first-ever commercial batch of carbon-free aluminum from a joint venture between aluminum suppliers Alcoa Corp and Rio Tinto, to be used in Apple products.
Apple's global facilities, including retail stores, offices and data centers across 43 countries use 100 percent renewable energy, it had said in 2018.

5. Amazon.com Inc

Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos has pledged to make the e-commerce giant net carbon neutral by 2040 and has said it will buy 100,000 electric delivery vans from US start-up Rivian.
Cutting emissions is a challenging goal for Amazon, which delivers about 10 billion items a year and has a massive transportation and data center footprint.
In September, Bezos said that Amazon would use 100 percent clean energy by 2030, up from 40 percent.

6. Facebook Inc

Facebook Inc said last year it was committed to reducing its greenhouse gas footprint by 75 percent from 2017 levels next year and to using 100 percent renewable energy in 2020.
A report by the social network shows that it has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 23 percent to 339,000 metric tons in the four years since 2014.