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Amazon’s Commitment to Run on 100-Percent Renewable Energy | Chris Roe | In the Green

What will it take to power the planet in a way that doesn’t hurt it? Chris Roe, Amazon’s director of energy and sustainable operations, shares the company’s pledge to get to net zero carbon and fully operate all buildings — including data and distribution centers, warehouses, commercial offices and grocery stores — on 100 percent…

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What will it take to power the planet in a way that doesn’t hurt it? Chris Roe, Amazon’s director of energy and sustainable operations, shares the company’s pledge to get to net zero carbon and fully operate all buildings — including data and distribution centers, warehouses, commercial offices and grocery stores — on 100 percent renewable energy. He reveals the most critical part of achieving these goals: partnering with companies around the globe to spearhead new wind and solar projects. Modeling a collaborative approach to a climate-friendly future, Roe invites leaders and companies everywhere to set their ambitions high and create a world that runs on green energy — because we can only achieve this together.

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  1. Hoch X

    October 25, 2022 at 9:12 pm

    Wow! This makes so much sense! Amazon has always had brilliant solutions to preserve natural resources, for example by bottling up employee piss.

    • 📞𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀𝗔𝗽𝗽+𝟭 (𝟯𝟮𝟬) 𝟰𝟮𝟬-𝟲𝟰𝟯𝟵

      October 25, 2022 at 11:12 pm

      Let’s talk, I got something big to introduce

  2. David Devine

    October 25, 2022 at 9:33 pm

    Remember, those who would work for Amazon, if you can be replaced by a machine, you will be replaced by a machine … that includes folks who do planning or design work, because that too can be automated … and until you can be replaced, you’ll be treated like a biological machine.

  3. Mark

    October 25, 2022 at 10:05 pm

    its called slave labor

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      October 25, 2022 at 11:12 pm

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  4. Alexia Beatriz

    October 25, 2022 at 10:29 pm

    okay now give your employees decent work conditions and rights 🙂

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      October 25, 2022 at 11:11 pm

      Let’s talk, I have something bigger to introduce⤴️⤴️⤴️

  5. Raymond Neill

    October 25, 2022 at 11:31 pm

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  6. William P

    October 25, 2022 at 11:43 pm

    I have to call b/s on Amazon being 85% renewable. I see their delivery drivers many times a week as well as their trucks on the road. No part of these operations are 0 carbon.

    • dammuozz

      October 26, 2022 at 6:24 am

      Plus all the fast consumerism they encourage and profit from is the complete opposite of renewable

  7. Stephen Thomson

    October 26, 2022 at 12:12 am

    No mention of energy storage.

  8. William Arrington

    October 26, 2022 at 12:24 am

    I work in data centers….. straight up lies. I wont go into details but based on the 120mw solar farm… thats 3 to 4 amazon data centers. They are now building 3 story data centers and based on the size of the ones that everyone is building in virginia…. 120mw is 1 campus… thats it… and we all have multiple campuses. People can cry about this but your going to use the thing your upset about to cry about it… your reading this on that same network so……

    • 🆆hatsAp+①④①⑦⑧⑨⑦③③⓪②

      October 26, 2022 at 2:36 am

      ✍️☝️Thanks for that remark!
      Always good catching up with you, Leave me a msg I’ve got something essential to share.
      Thanks, TED.

  9. Oxcart

    October 26, 2022 at 3:58 am

    Will it negate the damage to the atmosphere that Bezos’ rockets, private jets and his truly enormous ship does?

    • HaltonHannom

      October 31, 2022 at 4:14 am

      Or the 40% of Amazon products returned, many ending up in landfill?

  10. InkOnTube

    October 26, 2022 at 4:51 am

    How adout 100% commitment to allow all of Amazon employees to have the right to go to the restroom and not wear diapers for adults?

  11. Saturnaler

    October 26, 2022 at 5:22 am

    And by 2035, Amazon’s delivery drones will drop us directly into our graves, returning carbon to the earth with free shipping! Thank you, Jeff.

  12. Lifestyle Gruarin

    October 26, 2022 at 5:37 am

    Thumbs up

  13. dammuozz

    October 26, 2022 at 5:47 am

    What about Amazon commitment to pay 100% of its taxes?

  14. Ben Wood

    October 26, 2022 at 6:01 am

    Maybe if you let your employees unionize I’ll care about the environmental steps you’re taking.

    • sofia eris bauhaus

      October 26, 2022 at 8:07 am

      maybe.

  15. Sachin

    October 26, 2022 at 7:23 am

    Now TED is Promoting GreenWashing. GoodBye TED . 22M – 1 . (correct if i’m wrong)

  16. Dan Brasov

    October 26, 2022 at 9:39 am

    So with the local taxes that Amazon pays, they got to buy the green energy by tacking their goal to the one from the local gov.
    Basically the old scheme – get the most out of due local taxes by making it seem like a community investment and expect no-cost energy out of it.
    At least it is known that Arlington Virginia local gov. is paying for the useless space trips – 😶‍🌫

    @TED – please correct your course and don’t become a loud-speaker for corpo-schemes.

  17. Gavin Rushing

    October 26, 2022 at 10:31 am

    Absolutely brilliant!

    • Gavin Rushing

      October 26, 2022 at 8:42 pm

      @Text Me ╂¹ ³ ¹ ⁵ ³ ¹ ⁴ ⁹ ⁶ ⁷ ¹ Absolutely not.

  18. Tushar Kapila

    October 26, 2022 at 11:32 am

    This looks like a sponsored video. @TED we need a TED-filtered, most of the TED videos I watch nowadays are just not worth it

  19. Craig mertz

    October 26, 2022 at 12:17 pm

    I’m 58 and my wife and I are VERY worried about our future, gas and food prices rising daily. We have had our savings dwindle with the cost of living into the stratosphere, we are finding it impossible to replace it. We can get by, but cant seem to get ahead. My condolences to anyone retiring in this crisis, 40years nonstop just for a crooked system to take all you worked for

    • Gustavo Bedoya

      October 26, 2022 at 12:38 pm

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    • Gustavo Bedoya

      October 26, 2022 at 12:38 pm

    • Bilkisu Magaji

      October 26, 2022 at 12:40 pm

      I’m sure going to need his help, thanks for this amazing information

    • Kelvin Som

      October 26, 2022 at 12:59 pm

      I’m 61 and concerned but not about myself, about Ukrainians who are fighting and dying for their freedom, grow a backbone because we’re in this for the long haul…

    • Vido jimenez

      October 26, 2022 at 1:11 pm

      Agreed mate but for one thing, I empathise with the Ukranians but nothing more, they’ve decided they’ll fight – correct decision IMHO but it was their decision to make. Now we must decide if we fight alongside them. I say yes but live in a democracy and the majority might see it differently when the crunch comes.

  20. Tim

    October 26, 2022 at 12:52 pm

    He asks so many questions but offers few answers.

  21. CapAwesome 3D

    October 26, 2022 at 1:46 pm

    Right….

  22. another_alex

    October 26, 2022 at 3:27 pm

    Are you fucking kidding me? TED is getting worse and worse. Now they are giving big corporations free ad time…

  23. tortuga tortuga

    October 26, 2022 at 8:04 pm

    Boo amazon! If you want to save the world give me and install solar in my plugin hybrid vehicle for free. Boo amazon! Pay your lowest paid workers more and the guy in this video and his cohort less! Lessen inequality. Boo amazon!

  24. BrotherNature

    October 27, 2022 at 12:58 am

    How about water usage? Goals on making that a priority?

  25. Alexandre Bouchu

    October 27, 2022 at 1:59 am

    So where to start with TED & Amazon’s hypocrisy here?… First, Amazon is the ultimate example of a corporation thriving on hyper-consumerism, where people the world over buy mountains of crap they don’t need, thereby increasing humanity’s energy consumption to the unsustainable levels we’re witnessing. Second, this 100%-renewable energy pledge to power Amazon’s warehouses, data centers, etc. is but a minuscule amount of the energy expanded upstream of Amazon to extract resources from the Earth, refine minerals/fossil fuels and create the mountains of crap later sold on Amazon.

  26. Doktor Quanton

    October 28, 2022 at 1:26 am

    I just unsubscribed and you should do the same. Really TED, really!?

  27. Invox

    October 29, 2022 at 8:17 am

    How about: Not wasting all that cardboard and paper to wrap up a toothbush? Why don’t you start with that? 😓

  28. hippieparents420

    November 1, 2022 at 4:40 pm

    I’ve seen a lot of comments about Amazon and I just feel like this video is more of a view than a complete picture of Amazon’s situation excluding employees and Jeff Bezos. More of an analysis of the company’s buildings and energy consumption.

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