Amazon and Global Optimism Say The Climate Pledge Passes 100 Signatories

Amazon and Global Optimism announced that more than 100 companies have signed The Climate Pledge, with 52 new signatories joining the initiative “today.”

“Amazon et Global Optimism annoncent ce jour que plus de 100 entreprises ont désormais signé The Climate Pledge”

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The announcement says the signatories generate more than 1 400 milliards de dollars de chiffre d’affaires annuel dans le monde and count more de 5 millions de collaborateurs in 25 sectors and 16 countries.

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Jeff Bezos, fondateur et PDG d’Amazon, said, « Il y a à peine deux ans, Amazon a cofondé The Climate Pledge et invité d’autres entreprises à parvenir à l’objectif fixé par l’accord de Paris avec 10 ans d’avance. »

Christiana Figueres, ancienne Secrétaire exécutive de l’ONU pour le changement climatique and cofoundatrice de Global Optimism, said the companies “démontrent qu’aller plus vite dans la décarbonation de leurs activités leur offre un véritable avantage concurrentiel.”

The pledge includes commitments to measure and regularly report greenhouse-gas emissions and to neutralize remaining emissions to reach carbon neutrality d’ici 2040, with 10 years d’avance sur l’accord de Paris (neutralité carbone d’ici 2050).

The UK is no longer the top contributor to the UN’s flagship Green Climate Fund (GCF) after the government announced it only intends to honour half of its most recent pledge.

Carbon Brief says the UK informed the GCF in May it will reduce its commitment for the 2024-27 period to £815m ($1.1bn), cutting a Conservative pledge of £1.62bn ($2.16bn).

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In an email to the GCF board reported by the Financial Times, the fund’s executive director Mafalda Duarte said the UK’s actions were “expected to have a material impact on the delivery” of the fund’s projects.

Climate Home News reports a GCF spokesperson told the outlet that “all current projects under implementation have guaranteed funding” while the fund assesses what the cuts mean for projects being prepared.

The GCF is described as overseeing more than $20bn worth of funding across 354 projects and programmes, and as a mechanism created in 2010 to help developing countries reduce emissions and prepare for more extreme weather events.

Climate Home News says the UK’s reduction is part of a wider shift from development aid to military spending, and that it will restrict the GCF’s ability to fund projects that help developing countries cut emissions and adapt to climate change.

“The UK is no longer the top contributor to the UN’s flagship Green Climate Fund (GCF), after the government announced that it only intends to honour half of its most recent pledge”

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Harjeet Singh, director of the Satat Sampada Climate Foundation, called the decision “moral bankruptcy,” and said Britain has a historical responsibility for climate change “as a nation built on fossil-fuelled industrialisation”.

Liane Schalatek, who observes GCF board meetings for the Heinrich Böll Foundation, said the UK’s move was “an unfortunate signal,” especially as it comes just before the GCF launches its next fundraising round.

The same Climate Home News report says the GCF’s executive director Mafalda Duarte warned in an email to board members that the cuts are “expected to have a material impact” on the fund’s work over the next two years.

It also states that during the last GCF replenishment round in 2023, the UK’s previous Conservative government promised £1.622 billion ($2.18 billion) for the 2024-27 period, and that as of March 2026 it had handed over £655 million ($885 million) of that pledge.