Amazon has launched its corporate carbon credit service in the United Kingdom, marking the first international expansion of the programme since its US debut in March 2025.
The service, accessible via Amazon’s Sustainability Exchange platform, is restricted to qualified UK corporations that publicly report greenhouse gas emissions and maintain a verified net-zero target for 2050 or earlier covering Scopes 1, 2, and 3. Initial UK corporate participants include Aether Compliance, BizClik Media, Co-op Live, euNetworks, Moss UK, and Winston Taylor LLP.
The service provides corporate buyers with vetted environmental assets split into two primary categories to address residual operational emissions:
- Carbon neutralisation: Includes jurisdictional-scale avoided deforestation credits in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, native ecosystem reforestation projects, and technology-based Direct Air Capture (DAC).
- Supply chain insets & abatement: Features lower-carbon fuel insets (such as renewable diesel for logistics) alongside superpollutant abatement credits targeting refrigerant gas destruction and agricultural rice methane reduction.
Amazon acts as the central counterparty, managing multi-year purchase agreements, absorbing buyer-side transaction risks, and handling credit retirement tracking. Signatories of The Climate Pledge receive preferred pricing on the portfolio.
Kara Hurst, Chief Sustainability Officer at Amazon, stated, “The voluntary carbon market has struggled with transparency and quality, making it hard for companies to invest with confidence. 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.”
Sara Tomkins, Sustainability Director at Co-op Live, added, “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.”
