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Also wondering if Google and Facebook hit their targets. If not, how late were they? As Rob and Erik noted, while at first glance, it might appear that Amazon is lagging, it likely generates a lot more carbon given the movement of physical goods and will need to take more actions and do more "work" to reach neutrality.

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Similar to Erik, Amazon is often lumped in as a tech company, for comparisons like this it would be more accurate to consider Amazon a retailer (comps would be Target, Walmart, Kroger, etc.). I don't think Amazon breaks out carbon neutrality by business, but i would guess AWS and corporate would be carbon neutral well before the whole company.

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Cool to see this together! I'd be interested to see a comparison of how difficult each of these targets is to reach (e.g. how many gross tons of carbon does each company emit?). I perceive that a more "pure" tech company like Google or Facebook would have an easier time of reaching neutral than Amazon with its fleet of delivery vehicles. Would be cool context to see how big of a priority it is for each company.

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How do the companies calculate this? And how do we know how far are they?

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