This is unprecedented: over 6,000 Amazon employees have signed an open letter calling on the company to reinvent the company’s climate policy. 

That’s almost 1/10 of the company’s workforce calling on the Board of Directors to adopt a shareholder resolution that would transition the world’s most valuable public company away from fossil fuels and reach zero emissions by 2050. 

But Amazon’s Board is standing in the way of real climate action: A letter circulated to shareholders in advance of the company’s annual meeting recommended they vote down the proposal. And with Jeff Bezos already owning 16 percent of the company’s shares, we need to take action to ensure broad shareholder support for this groundbreaking resolution. 

The open letter calls out Amazon for its hypocrisy on climate change, noting Amazon Web Service’s partnerships with oil and gas extraction projects and its donations to politicians stalling climate legislation in Congress. 

Amazon just purchased 20,000 diesel vans—even while pledging to make half of all company orders net-zero carbon by 2030. But employees say buying carbon offsets isn’t the solution, and won’t undo the diesel pollution that disproportionately impacts communities of color.  

With more employees receiving company stock, workers have the power to shift Amazon’s priorities towards accountable climate action. But they can’t do it alone—and that’s where we come in. Let’s raise our voices to show Amazon that consumers support this historic shareholder resolution for climate leadership.