Almost 1,000 Amazon employees have staged a walkout over the company ’s lack of climate change action . Amazon said it has sustainability teams working on initiatives to reduce its environmental impact. A group called Amazon Employees for Climate Justice said the firm should be taking the lead because of its size . It wants Amazon to end donations to climate change - denying groups and lobbyists , stop giving contracts to fossil fuel companies , ban electric vehicles and pledge zero emissions by 2030 . Amazon said tackling climate change was an important commitment and that it was working on initiatives to cut the environmental impact of its products .
Almost 1,000 Amazon employees have staged a walkout over the company ’s lack of climate change action . A group called Amazon Employees for Climate Justice said the firm should be taking the lead because of its size . It wants Amazon to end donations to climate change - denying groups and lobbyists , stop giving contracts to fossil fuel companies , ban electric vehicles and pledge zero emissions by 2030 . Amazon said tackling climate change was an important commitment and that it was working on initiatives to cut the environmental impact of its products .