Top 2024 resources on carbon
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3 Quick Fixes for Greener Ecommerce
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Ecommerce isn’t very eco. It’s frequently the opposite. A next-day delivery — where a driver travels 45 minutes each way for a $7 item in a single-use plastic package — makes no sense for the planet. Here are three quick fixes.
Topics: instore, shipping, suppliers, ecommerce, packaging, shoppers, greener, delivery, quick, fixes, carbon, emissions, bopis. -
4 Simple, Low-Cost Ways to Run a More Sustainable Business
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Companies can thrive while also contributing to positive environmental change. But getting started can be daunting—which is why we’re simplifying it with four of the most impactful ways to make your business more sustainable.More
Topics: emissions, lowcost, packaging, planet, carbon, ways, business, sustainable, simple, shopify, offset, climate, neutral, run. -
Amazon aims to make half of its shipments carbon neutral by 2030
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Perhaps hoping to distract from Greenpeace’s latest report on its “dirty cloud,” Amazon this morning announced a new environmental commitment, focused on reducing its carbon footprint. The company says it aims to reach 50 percent of all Amazon shipments with net zero carbon by 2030. The company is calling this program “Shipment Zero.” Details on this […]
Topics: energy, amazon, renewable, company, solar, offer, report, half, carbon, environmental, neutral, programs, shipments, zero, aims. -
Amazon pledges US$2 billion in Climate Pledge Fund
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Amazon has pledged US$2 billion for a Climate Pledge Fund to foster sustainable technologies and services that will enable it to achieve net zero carbon.
Topics: company, services, pledge, climate, technologies, amazon, zero, billion, pledges, size, carbon, companies, fund. -
DPD will deliver parcels by e-cargo bike this summer
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Parcel delivery group DPD has partners with Electric Assisted Vehicles (EAV) to develop a lightweight four-wheel e-cargo bike. With these bikes, DPD will start delivering parcels to consumers in July later this year. The news was revealed at the eBike Summit in Ofxord last week. Three bikes are currently being… Continue reading
Topics: parcels, ecargo, city, bikes, carbon, dpd, parcel, delivery, summer, deliver, bike, guide, footprint. -
Do Consumers Care about Green Commerce?
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Covid-19 has shone a light on the next big crisis: the environment. Younger consumers are especially sensitive about global warming and the world they are inheriting. Does it affect the way they shop? What can merchants do to make their operations greener?
Topics: likely, carbon, emissions, ecommerce, environmental, z, commerce, consumers, care, reduce, green, air, brands. -
EcoCart Review (Apr 2022): Offsetting Carbon Emissions
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In today’s EcoCart review, we’re looking at a new start-up introducing intelligent ways of offsetting carbon emissions, and helping businesses go green. Currently, we’re living in a world where customers are increasingly looking to purchase from companies who care. Around…
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Topics: apr, shopping, offset, review, online, emissions, offsetting, impact, carbon, customers, companies, ecocart, company. -
Ecommerce Product Releases: May 16, 2021
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Here is a list of product releases and updates for mid-May from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on fraud prevention, interactive video, campaign builders, product subscriptions, and sustainability tools.
Topics: releases, ecommerce, product, help, customer, announced, wix, carbon, marketing, learning, platform. -
Etsy’s Shipping Initiative Puts Other E-Commerce Platforms to Shame – Want to Go Green? Take a Leaf Out of Etsy’s Book
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It's official; Etsy has just become the first ever international e-commerce marketplace to offset ALL its shipping emissions – how awesome is that?! Etsy's Journey This is the big question. How on earth has Etsy managed to offset all their…
Continue reading Etsy’s Shipping Initiative Puts Other E-Commerce Platforms to Shame – Want to Go Green? Take a Leaf Out of Etsy’s Book
Topics: platforms, etsys, trees, wind, reduce, carbon, shipping, puts, offset, shame, solar, emissions, initiative, etsy, ecommerce. -
How Businesses Go Carbon Neutral
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Climate change is front and center in the news. How businesses can make a positive impact is not well understood. I'll provide an overview in the post. First, a few definitions.
Topics: footprint, businesses, projects, microsoft, offset, neutral, carbon, tons, emissions, metric, company. -
Packhelp raises $45.6M to expand its custom packaging biz
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Warsaw-based Packhelp has been riding the boom in e-commerce and on-demand delivery to scale a business that helps even the smallest brands wrap their wares in eye-catching custom packaging, while counting giants like H&M and Uber Eats among its customers, too. Since being founded back in 2015 — launching its custom packaging design platform in […]
Topics: 456m, supply, sustainability, customers, carbon, packhelp, sustainable, million, product, biz, techcrunch, packaging, round, custom, expand, raises. -
Shopify Is Eliminating the Climate Impact of Merchant Shipments Over BFCM
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For the second year in a row, Shopify is addressing the environmental impact of the global Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM) shopping weekend by purchasing enough frontier carbon removal to counteract the carbon emissions that come from shipping every single order on our platform.More
Topics: shipments, bfcm, removal, merchant, carbon, companies, impact, world, eliminating, climate, shopify, emissions, technologies, shipping. -
Shopify’s Sustainability Fund: How We’re Investing to Reverse Climate Change
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One year ago, we launched Shopify’s Sustainability Fund to address a hard, irrefutable truth: there’s too much carbon in the air. Today, we’re sharing how we spent the fund’s first $5 million on the most promising and innovative solutions fighting climate change—and the visionary entrepreneurs behind them.More
Topics: invest, carbon, removal, fund, investing, co₂, investments, climate, sustainability, technology, reverse, shopifys, change, technologies, need. -
Stripe Climate is a new tool to let Stripe customers make carbon removal purchases
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Last year, payments giant Stripe announced that it would donate $1 million of its own funds annually into companies that are building technology to remove carbon from our environment, with the recipients of that investment announced in May of this year. Now, it’s expanding that commitment with a new product aimed at getting its customers […]
Topics: let, climate, tool, substack, carbon, stripe, purchases, customers, way, money, techcrunch, removal, using, payments, companies. -
We’re Offsetting All Carbon Emissions from BFCM Order Deliveries
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Topics: deliveries, offsetting, projects, offsets, shopify, commerce, emissions, weekend, shopping, carbon, bfcm, order. -
Will Carbon and Shahry usher in a wave of buy now, pay later services in Africa?
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Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna, Quadpay. These are some of the big global players in the buy now, pay later (BNPL) movement. They allow shoppers to purchase products online and pay in installments with nominal or no fees, and have become more prominent due to how the pandemic accelerated e-commerce market growth around the world. Credit card […]
Topics: bnpl, market, zero, shahry, pay, africa, products, wave, credit, company, carbon, merchants, services, customers, later, usher, buy, techcrunch.