Amazon’s latest earnings report reveals record-breaking profits while slow-walking climate action, despite growing pressure from customers

SEATTLE (Traditional Puget Sound Salish and Duwamish Lands) — Amazon’s fourth-quarter earnings report shows record profits for 2025. Despite having the resources to join the growing list of companies decarbonizing shipping and logistics, the company has failed to adopt meaningful commitments to emissions reductions. 

Amazon’s latest release, released today, highlights a growing rift between the company’s leadership and its most loyal customers. This past October,  Prime Members for a Cleaner Amazon launched as a consumer-focused effort to encourage the company to commit to more ambitious emissions reductions efforts. Since launching, the customer-organizing effort has attracted more than 20,000 loyal Amazon customers, and the group is planning an action in response to the earnings release.

“Amazon’s success is built on us, its customers. Now, we’re asking the company to stop celebrating profits and start delivering climate action,” said Dr. Chris Covert-Bowlds, member of Prime Members for a Cleaner Amazon and Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility.

A Morning Consult poll conducted last year revealed that an overwhelming 80 percent of Amazon customers want the company to take stronger action to reduce its pollution, underscoring the growing gap between Amazon’s public climate rhetoric and customer expectations. While competitors across the retail and logistics sectors accelerate investments in zero-emission vehicles and cleaner freight, Amazon continues to rely heavily on fossil fuel-powered transportation across its air, ocean, and ground operations.

“I’m a Prime member because I rely on Amazon, but I don’t want my convenience to come at the expense of the climate. As customers, we’re asking Amazon to use its size and influence to move faster toward clean transportation, not drag its feet while pollution grows. We’re long-time customers, and we expect better. Amazon has the money and the technology to cut its pollution, and now it needs the will to act,” said Lalita Malik, member of Prime Members for a Cleaner Amazon of Lagrangeville, N.Y.

While Amazon tries to spin its latest results to investors, Prime Members for a Cleaner Amazon calls on the company to match its financial success with concrete climate leadership. The group urges Amazon to commit to faster electrification of its delivery fleet, a clear phase-out of fossil fuels across its logistics network, and transparent, time-bound targets to cut climate pollution.

“Amazon’s continued success makes one thing clear: The company has the financial power to be a leader in decarbonization, but it’s simply choosing profit over our health. At a moment when science and customers are demanding urgent emissions cuts, Amazon is slow-walking the investments needed to clean up its massive shipping and logistics footprint,” said Dr. Wiiliam Pevec, a member of Prime Members for a Cleaner Amazon of Sacramento, Calif.

Prime Members for a Cleaner Amazon plans to mobilize at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters on Friday, Feb. 6, to encourage the company to enhance its decarbonization efforts. The protest will feature bicycle-driven billboards that call on the company to electrify its last-mile fleet, adopt truly renewable energy for data centers, and respect workers’ rights. 

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