Amazon says it wants half of carbon-neutral shipments by 2030

Amazon, which ships millions of parcels a year to the doors of its customers, says it wants to be more ecological. The online sales giant announced Monday its intention to return half of its carbon neutral shipments by 2030.

To achieve this goal, the online retail giant has announced that it will use more renewable energy, such as solar energy; have more packages delivered in electric vans; and push suppliers to redo their packaging. He calls the initiative "Shipment Zero".

Amazon also announced that it will release its carbon footprint for the first time later this year. The initiative "follows a major project over the past two years to develop an advanced scientific model to carefully map our carbon footprint to provide our business teams with detailed information to help them identify ways to reduce the use of carbon in their business, "said Dave Clark, vice president. President of Global Operations at Amazon, in a post on the company's blog.

Amazon has been criticized for not doing more to combat climate change. Although the retailer claims to have a "long-term goal" of being fully powered by renewable energy, the company did not specify in detail when it expected to achieve this goal.

But to mitigate the effects of global pollution, drastic measures must be taken to reduce human-induced carbon emissions over the next 12 years, scientists said. It is therefore urgent for companies like Amazon to act immediately, ecologists say.

A group of shareholders and employees of Amazon filed a resolution late last year forcing him to share his plan to go green.

"I think that an effective plan will include dates and milestones," said Emily Cunningham, one of the employees, at CBS News. "For me, climate change is the issue of our lives, and we want to make sure that they understand that it is as important as that."

– Associated Press contributed to the report