{"id":415176,"date":"2026-01-18T16:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/415176\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T16:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:06:16","slug":"ebay-unveils-first-climate-plan-targets-net-zero-by-2045","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/415176\/","title":{"rendered":"eBay unveils first climate plan, targets net-zero by 2045"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON, Jan 14 (Reuters) – E-commerce company eBay (EBAY.O), opens new tab<\/a> unveiled its first climate transition plan on Wednesday and said it would ramp up efforts to decarbonize its operations and supply chain as part of a plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2045.<\/p>\n

The plan, which has been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), an independent standard setter, builds on an earlier goal of powering all its facilities with 100% renewable electricity by 2025, which was achieved in 2024.<\/p>\n

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Chief Sustainability Officer Renee Morin told Reuters eBay aims to align itself with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average, a target adopted by most countries under the Paris Agreement.<\/p>\n

eBay has cut its operational emissions by 92% from 2019 levels and reduced its transportation emissions by 21% toward a 2030 goal of 27.5%.<\/p>\n

Going forward, eBay aims to expand its renewable energy adoption, scale its low-carbon innovations in shipping and encourage users to choose resale and reuse options to cut emissions and waste.<\/p>\n

Shipping accounts for 84% of eBay’s Scope 3 emissions, those from across its value chain, making it the toughest challenge, Morin said.<\/p>\n

“We are collaborating with carriers who offer local pickup or switching from planes to trucks with some of our vendors. We have to be creative to achieve our goals,” she added.<\/p>\n

Among its peers, Amazon.com Inc pledged to become carbon neutral by 2040<\/a> in 2019, while China’s Alibaba Group committed to achieving carbon neutrality by the end of the decade in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sharon is the creator, curator and editor of the Reuters Sustainable Switch newsletter and the Sustainable Business vertical on Reuters.com. She joined Reuters after a stint as the Inclusive Economies Editor at the Thomson Reuters Foundation. She enjoys writing about the intersection between climate and social injustice and can be contacted via email for ESG-related queries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON, Jan 14 (Reuters) – E-commerce company eBay (EBAY.O), opens new tab unveiled its first climate transition plan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[182548,3995,184327,198901,182526,89749,193575,191427,182530,23592,121479,10529,182542,183070,192356,183103,190759,191433,184956,184957,183091,184325,193175,184328,184976,184940,192,19253,198902,198903,182531,110567,6655,198904,182534,182549,183075,184978,183077,183078,188831,183090,192362,191426,193569,198900,189763,191425,79,24244,186341,68437,183084,172,26311,184971,189757,193570,25,191430],"class_list":["post-415176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-amers","tag-asia","tag-asxpac","tag-awlq","tag-bact","tag-biz","tag-cla","tag-clc","tag-cmpny","tag-cn","tag-co2","tag-com","tag-cprod","tag-cycs","tag-dept","tag-destlita","tag-destocog","tag-destoenv","tag-destortagm","tag-destousesg","tag-destoustcm","tag-easia","tag-ecomma","tag-emrg","tag-enr","tag-env","tag-environment","tag-esg","tag-esgdis","tag-esgenv","tag-gen","tag-hk","tag-legal","tag-mailod","tag-mngiss","tag-namer","tag-netsv","tag-nrg","tag-pol","tag-publ","tag-ret","tag-reuters-legal","tag-rgen","tag-rsbiclimate-change","tag-rsbiclimate-solutions","tag-rsbiesg-regulation","tag-rsbipolitical-lobbying","tag-rsbisustainable-markets","tag-science","tag-shop","tag-shopal","tag-sustainable-business","tag-swit","tag-tech","tag-tmt","tag-topicmarkets-commodities-energy","tag-topicreuters-impact-top-stories","tag-topicsustasinability-the-switch","tag-us","tag-wrm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}