Hamidou Tounkara
Professor Buckler
BUS 104-E052
5 August 2023
The company that I am going to talk about is Amazon.com.Amazon is referred to as “one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world”. Amazon is a conglomerate in it include sectors like e-commerce, cloud computing, entertainment, and logistics. Like most of the population I shop on Amazon. I am also employed by Amazon. Amazon plays a big role in society today. They also take important steps in regard to social responsibility and pursuing sustainable business practices to help reduce the impact of their business and better communities.
Amazon being one of the world’s biggest companies must play a big and important role in social responsibility. In fact,they do find ways to be socially responsible in communities. On the homepage of their website in our approach section it says “We focus on addressing immediate needs, such as reducing hunger and homelessness, providing affordable housing, and serving communities in need following natural disasters. We also look to the future, by providing programs that support science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education and skills training”. Amazon should look expand more socially responsible I other areas of the world. I would recommend that they look at trying to help end hunger in the world.
Amazon has faced a lot of backlashes in the past and present for how they are not using sustainable business practices. A company of that size plays a major role in the climate change crisis. According to an article from the Verge amazon’s greenhouse gas emissions grew 18% in 2021 compared to 2020.Amazon has made a pledge to reach net zero carbon carbon dioxide emissions by 2040. Calma 2022. My recommendation to reduce carbon footprint is to focus on the use of renewable energy. I work there and I see so changes they are making like adding more electric delivery vans to their fleets and the use of more renewable energy.
There is always room for improvement when it come to social responsibility and pursuing sustainable business practices. Companies always find ways to improve their role in these issues. After all it benfits the public and companies positively.
Citations:
https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/communities
https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/1/23287351/amazon-climate-change-carbon-emissions-worse-2021
