4 takeaways from the 2026 Climate Pledge Report

Key takeaways:

• The Climate Pledge Report is available now, prepared by Amazon in collaboration with Global Optimism and featured signatories. 
• The report summarizes the collective progress of more than 700 signatories working toward net-zero carbon emissions.  
• Pledge signatories are decarbonizing faster than their peers, translating shared ambition into measurable progress at scale, data shows. 

The Climate Pledge was founded in 2019 on a simple but urgent premise: The world can’t wait to make climate progress.

Since then, the Pledge has grown to more than 700 signatories across 49 countries and territories and 62 industries. Their combined revenue is $3.8 trillion, which would rank the community as the world’s seventh-largest economy.  

That scale is the point. When hundreds of companies commit to the same target on the same timeline, there’s meaningful change. Together, they can help to advance new technologies, strengthen supply chains and open opportunities across industries.

The report, which covers data through June 2026 on joint action progress, signatory milestones and business actions, revealed meaningful progress:

1.  Climate commitments continue to grow 

Companies are staying the course on their climate commitments. Since last year, 107 have joined the Pledge, a 19 percent increase over 2024. Many of those signatories are from hard-to-abate and underrepresented sectors.

In 2025, the Pledge welcomed 51 new fashion and beauty brands, bringing the sector total to 60. The commitment also deepened its presence by 164 percent in Latin America and 24 percent in Asia Pacific from 2024 to 2025.

A larger, more diverse community means more shared knowledge, scalable solutions and capacity to tackle decarbonization challenges that no single company can address on its own. 

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2. Signatories are outpacing their peers 


Signatories collectively reduced their reported operational carbon emissions by an average of 11 percent.

This is based on Scope 1 (emissions from direct operations) and Scope 2 (emissions from purchased electricity) analysis of 119 signatories representing approximately 90 percent [RJ1] of publicly available signatory revenue, data reported to a third-party database of company-reported GHG emissions from 2021 to 2024.

That represents 14 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent from direct operations and purchased energy, equivalent to avoiding 35.6 billion miles driven by gas-powered cars.

Signatories also reduced industry reported emissions faster than companies outside the Pledge, which saw an average 7 percent reduction over the same period. 

That gap suggests something real: A public, time-bound pledge, backed by a community of peers, helps signatory companies achieve faster, consistent progress. And the average only tells part of the story.

The median reduction in operational carbon emissions was 21 percent.

Three in four signatories reduced emissions from direct operations and indirect emissions from purchased electricity, heat, steam, and cooling. Dozens cut emissions by half or more.

By committing to net-zero by 2040, signatories are projected to eliminate at least 2.6 billion metric tons of CO2 equivalent annually. That’s roughly equivalent to a third of the carbon absorbed by the world’s forests each year. 

3. The progress, and where the hard work remains

Indirect emissions from purchased electricity, heat, steam, and cooling saw the steepest declines, down 35 percent on average, driven by renewable energy procurement.

But emissions from direct operations, like fuel combustion and industrial processes, declined 4 percent on average. That smaller figure reflects the reality companies working to decarbonize are facing: The toughest emissions to cut require fleet electrification, redesigning operational processes, and technologies that are still scaling.

It’s exactly the kind of challenge that gets easier through joint action projects, where signatories pool demand, de-risk emerging technology and build replicable models together.

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4. Joint action turns shared barriers into shared solutions

This is the kind of collaboration The Climate Pledge is built to support, by bringing companies together to work on common problems through joint action projects. Thirty-three projects to date are supported by 122 signatories, all focused on shared decarbonization challenges.

In 2025, nine industrial projects brought together 44 signatories to advance lower-carbon solutions, including:

• Electrifying Drayage Alliance (EDA): Launched in 2025 with Smart Freight Centre, the EDA unites more than 45 companies to accelerate electric drayage, the short-haul movement of containers between ports and warehouses. It is a practical first step for electrifying heavy-duty freight, with predictable routes and manageable mileage, contributing to cleaner air for port communities.
• Laneshift: Partnering with C40 Cities, Laneshift deployed 357 zero-tailpipe-emission electric trucks across India, Mexico and Brazil, avoiding 3,215 metric tons of CO2 equivalent in 2025. Highlights include a first-of-its-kind e-truck highway demonstration in India, the country’s largest charging hub in Mexico City with VEMO, and Brazil’s e-Dutra Coalition targeting 1,000 daily electric trucks by 2030. These investments also generated 1,151 job-years, roughly 140 percent more than equivalent diesel freight.
• Buildings decarbonization programs: Signatories are cutting embodied carbon and improving efficiency in buildings. With funding from the Pledge, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Commercial Heat Pump Accelerator entered phase 2 in November 2025, targeting units that cut HVAC energy use by 20 to 50 percent. A parallel mass timber effort aims to support standardizing components that reduce embodied carbon 35 to 65 percent compared with steel and concrete.
• Lower-carbon concrete: The Climate-Smart Concrete initiative, led by the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub, is using generative artificial intelligence to build a dynamic playbook to enable at least a 20 percent carbon reduction against specific regional baselines in every North American market. The Sustainable Concrete Buyers Alliance, meanwhile, has engaged 33 companies, including 18 top Amazon suppliers, to combat the carbon emissions of concrete (7 to 8 percent of global emissions), and aggregate demand at scale.

Get the full picture in The Climate Pledge Report. 

1. Based on Scope 1 (emissions from direct operations) and Scope 2 (emissions from purchased electricity) analysis of 119 signatories representing approximately 90% of publicly available signatory revenue, data reported to a third-party database of company-reported GHG emissions from 2021 to 2024.