Amazon opens carbon credit service to qualified UK companies working to reduce their climate impact

LONDON, 10 June 2026 - Amazon today announced that its carbon credit service is now available to qualified UK companies - the first time the programme has expanded beyond the United States since launching there last year.

Available through the Sustainability Exchange, the service is designed for companies that have already committed to meaningful decarbonisation and want to go further.

Even the most ambitious companies face a challenge in eliminating every gram of greenhouse gas they produce. After making all practical cuts, such as switching to carbon-free energy, electrifying vehicle fleets, and redesigning supply chains, residual emissions remain stubbornly difficult to remove. Carbon neutralisation counterbalances those remaining emissions by investing in projects elsewhere that either prevent greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere or remove carbon that is already there. Another approach, insetting, tackles emissions at source by replacing high-carbon inputs with lower-carbon alternatives, such as cleaner fuels for transportation.

UK companies face growing regulatory expectations in light of ambitious national climate targets for 2030 and beyond. Many want to invest in high-quality carbon credits to complement their own emission cuts, but the voluntary carbon market - worth billions globally - has been plagued by concerns over credibility and whether the projects being funded truly deliver the climate benefits they claim.

"The voluntary carbon market has struggled with transparency and quality, making it hard for companies to invest with confidence," said Kara Hurst, chief sustainability officer at Amazon. "But the science is clear: we need to protect forests, restore ecosystems, and remove carbon at scale. We're using our size and technical expertise to make high-quality credits available to ambitious UK companies already doing the hard work of cutting their own emissions and wanting to go further."

Since launching in the United States in March 2025, Amazon's credit service has expanded beyond nature-based carbon neutralisation to include lower-carbon fuel insets and superpollutant
credits. These credits link to cleaner alternatives within a company's own supply chain, such as renewable diesel for shipping and rice methane abatement credits. UK companies joining the service will have access to both neutralisation credits and supply-chain solutions designed to reduce the carbon intensity of key commodities in their operations.

How the Service Works

The service is available to UK-based companies that:

• Have set a net-zero carbon emissions target for no later than 2050, covering Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions

• Measure and publicly report greenhouse gas emissions on a regular basis

These requirements make sure that credits sit alongside meaningful work to cut emissions, not in place of it.

Several UK-based organisations are among the first to use the service internationally, including Aether Compliance, BizClik Media, Co-op Live, euNetworks, Moss UK, and Winston Taylor LLP.

Sara Tomkins, Sustainability Director at Co-op Live, said: "Amazon's carbon credit service shares Co-op Live's drive for innovation in sustainability, and through high-quality, nature-based credits will help us deliver further on our commitment to net zero."

Carbon Neutralisation and Inset Credits
UK companies will have access to a growing portfolio of credits across multiple climate solutions:

• Reducing deforestation: Credits that fund jurisdictional-scale programmes in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana that work with local communities to keep forests standing rather than clearing them. Proceeds support adoption of agroforestry and community priorities like clean drinking water, and maternity wards. Jurisdictional approaches are considered more reliable than project-by-project methods because they leverage government policy to address the drivers of deforestation and account for changes in emissions across entire landscapes.

• Restoring forests: Credits that finance carbon removal by restoring native ecosystems on land that has been stripped of vegetation.

• Direct air capture: Credits supporting technology development and deployment that captures carbon dioxide from ambient air and stores it deep underground.

• Superpollutant abatement: Credits that fund the safe destruction of old refrigerant gases and projects that reduce methane released from rice paddies.

• Lower-carbon fuel insets: Credits linked to the production of renewable alternatives to diesel, including shipping fuels. Unlike the other credits - which fund projects outside a company's own operations - these "inset" credits support cleaner alternatives within supply chains a company already uses.

Amazon rigorously vets every project in the portfolio. Only a small fraction of credits in the voluntary carbon market meet Amazon's quality standards. Climate Pledge signatories benefit from exclusive discounts on credits, to support existing efforts to reach net-zero carbon by 2040.

Amazon manages the complexity of multi-year purchase agreements, takes on buyer-side risk, and provides support including retirement tracking and reporting. Companies interested in learning more can visit sustainabilityexchange.amazon.com/credits.

As Amazon works towards its Climate Pledge goal to reach net-zero carbon by 2040, the company continues to make meaningful changes across its operations, including transitioning to carbon-free energy, electrifying its delivery fleet, and improving efficiency in its buildings and data centres. In 2024, it launched the Sustainability Exchange to help other companies make faster progress through practical resources, playbooks, and decarbonisation guidance. With today's expansion of the carbon credit service, UK companies can now scale their climate impact beyond their own operations.

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