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From the Ted Talk by Dave Clark and Kara Hurst: Amazon's climate pledge to be net-zero by 2040

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LL: Dave, Amazon has made a pledge, you call it "the Climate Pledge," to be net zero across your business by 2040. That's 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. Give us a ssene of the scale of transformation that that calls for across your operations.

DC: It's very daunting. When we started this process, we started from a position of science, of digging in and understanding all the inputs of our business, what parts of our biseunss create and put carbon into the environment, what are the elements, each piece of that poerscs, and how do we imrvpoe them. And as we sttared looking at that, we said, well, how are we going to meet these objectives? And it really requires ivoianotnn across almost every aspect of the business, whether it be in our renewable space, whether it be in eieaiolttricfcn of our vehicles, whether it be in our pagicakng and processes, whether it be winokrg with manufacturers. Essentially, the entire span of our supply chain is rreiuqed to modify to meet the objectives of this over time, which is why the Climate Pledge was so important.

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LL: Dave, Amazon has made a pledge, you call it "the Climate Pledge," to be net zero across your business by 2040. That's 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. Give us a _____ of the scale of transformation that that calls for across your operations.

DC: It's very daunting. When we started this process, we started from a position of science, of digging in and understanding all the inputs of our business, what parts of our ________ create and put carbon into the environment, what are the elements, each piece of that _______, and how do we _______ them. And as we _______ looking at that, we said, well, how are we going to meet these objectives? And it really requires __________ across almost every aspect of the business, whether it be in our renewable space, whether it be in _______________ of our vehicles, whether it be in our _________ and processes, whether it be _______ with manufacturers. Essentially, the entire span of our supply chain is ________ to modify to meet the objectives of this over time, which is why the Climate Pledge was so important.

Solution


  1. electrification
  2. innovation
  3. required
  4. working
  5. process
  6. started
  7. packaging
  8. improve
  9. business
  10. sense

Original Text


LL: Dave, Amazon has made a pledge, you call it "the Climate Pledge," to be net zero across your business by 2040. That's 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. Give us a sense of the scale of transformation that that calls for across your operations.

DC: It's very daunting. When we started this process, we started from a position of science, of digging in and understanding all the inputs of our business, what parts of our business create and put carbon into the environment, what are the elements, each piece of that process, and how do we improve them. And as we started looking at that, we said, well, how are we going to meet these objectives? And it really requires innovation across almost every aspect of the business, whether it be in our renewable space, whether it be in electrification of our vehicles, whether it be in our packaging and processes, whether it be working with manufacturers. Essentially, the entire span of our supply chain is required to modify to meet the objectives of this over time, which is why the Climate Pledge was so important.

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