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<strong>Company:</strong>
<p>Amazon.com, Inc</p>
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<p>Climate Change, Environment </p>
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<p>Climate Change </p>
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<p>Filed</p>
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<p class=”p1″><strong>WHEREAS: </strong>The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that immediate and significant emissions reductions are required of all market sectors to stave off the worst consequences of climate change.1 In response to this climate crisis, investors are seeking transparent climate-related risk disclosures from companies, including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disclosures, to inform their investment decision-making.2</p>
<p class=”p3″>For most retailers, Scope 3 product-related value chain activities are the largest source of emissions.3 Product-related value chain emissions include “all the emissions generated to make the products that retailers sell (upstream emissions) and the emissions that customers create by using and ultimately disposing of the products that they purchase (downstream emissions).”4 Because they constitute a significant portion of retailers’ total emissions, meaningful efforts by retailers to reduce their contribution to systemic climate risk must address these product-related emissions.</p>
<p class=”p4″>Amazon does not meet this standard. It discloses product-related value chain GHG emissions only for its private label (i.e., Amazon-branded) products.5 However, Amazon states that “private brands sales represent only about 1% of our total sales.”6 Amazon therefore fails to disclose material emissions associated with 99% of the products sold on its retail platform.</p>
<p class=”p3″>Under the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, retail companies should count the emissions associated with all relevant products sold across the Company’s product portfolio.7 Peers Target and Walmart each disclose emissions from all product sales, not just their private label products.8 Disclosing the GHG emissions associated with only a fraction of a retailer’s product sales, as Amazon does, risks providing a misleading impression of the retailer’s total emissions and its exposure to climate-related risk.</p>
<p class=”p6″>By expanding disclosures to cover emissions from all of Amazon’s retail products – defined by the Company’s most recent 10-K as sales for which Amazon is the seller of record – the Company can mitigate risk across its product portfolio and demonstrate that its actions are responsive to climate regulations approved by California and the European Union. Increased emissions disclosures will prepare Amazon for growing mandatory reporting requirements and carbon pricing via carbon border adjustment mechanisms. More complete Scope 3 reporting will reduce Amazon’s exposure to reputational risk, increase the legitimacy of its climate targets, and position the Company to be prepared for and to maximize benefits from climate-related opportunities.</p>
<p class=”p6″><strong>RESOLVED: </strong>Shareholders request that Amazon disclose all material Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions associated with its retail sales.</p>
<p class=”p1″>1 https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_SYR_FullVolume.pdf, p.20</p>
<p class=”p2″>2 https://www.sec.gov/files/33-11042-fact-sheet.pdf, p.1</p>
<p class=”p2″>3  https://nrf.com/blog/retailers-set-science-based-targets-address-climate-change</p>
<p class=”p2″>4  https://nrf.com/blog/retailers-set-science-based-targets-address-climate-change</p>
<p class=”p2″>5 https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/2023-amazon-sustainability-report.pdf , p.11</p>
<p class=”p2″>6 https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110883/documents/HHRG-116-JU05-20200729-QFR052.pdf, p. 23-24</p>
<p class=”p2″>7 https://ghgprotocol.org/sites/default/files/2022-12/Chapter11.pdf, p.113</p>
<p class=”p2″>8  https://corporate.target.com/getmedia/e2d80340-eb9f-43a7-a84c-219280aa5ba4/2024-Sustainability-and-Governance-Report.pdf, p. 7, 12-14; https://corporate.walmart.com/content/dam/corporate/documents/esgreport/our- esg-priorities/2023%20CDP%20Climate%20Submission.pdf, p.65-71; https://revealnews.org/article/private-report- shows-how-amazon-drastically-undercounts-its-carbon-footprint/</p>

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<div class=”views-field views-field-nothing”><span class=”field-content”> Lyndsay Fritz</span></div><div class=”views-field views-field-title views-field-field-shareholder”><span class=”field-content”>Amalgamated Bank</span></div>
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<div class=”views-field views-field-nothing”><span class=”field-content”> Giovanna Eichner</span></div><div class=”views-field views-field-title views-field-field-shareholder”><span class=”field-content”>Green Century Capital Management, Inc.</span></div>
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<p>AI / Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights Due Diligence </p>
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<div class=”views-field views-field-nothing”><span class=”field-content”> Brandon Rees</span></div><div class=”views-field views-field-title views-field-field-shareholder”><span class=”field-content”>AFL-CIO</span></div>
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<strong>Focus Area:</strong>
<p>Paris-Aligned Climate Lobbying </p>
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<strong>Status:</strong>
<p>Filed</p>
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<p class=”p1″><strong>Whereas: </strong>The Paris Agreement is clear (Article 2.1c) – ALL financial flows must ultimately align with climate goals. Achieving this requires a robust, fair, and ambitious policy framework that accounts for the challenges to businesses and society of limiting global warming to 1.5°C.1</p>
<p class=”p3″>Amazon.com Inc. (“Amazon” or “Company”) pays trade association dues and other fees2 to influential organizations that consistently doubt the risks from, or scientific consensus on, climate change3 – making climate policy progress difficult. Meanwhile, the Company claims that its lobbying and advocacy activities are “aligned with [Net Zero targets and] the Paris Agreement goals.”4</p>
<p class=”p3″>Amazon acknowledges misalignment between its policy positions and those of the third parties representing the Company, but broadly asserts that the benefits of such relationships outweigh the risks associated with misalignment.5</p>
<p class=”p3″>As well, Amazon discloses sporadic and incomplete details on its direct climate lobbying,6 which prevents investors from evaluating whether these efforts are aligned with its strategy.</p>
<p class=”p5″>Amazon lags behind leading companies which: disclose the climate policy priorities needed to achieve emissions targets;7 publish policy briefs on their views on emerging technologies;8 assess the actions of their trade associations for alignment;9 and report their advocacy actions publicly.10 Some companies are even implementing third-party audits of their climate lobbying activities for Board and shareholder review.11</p>
<p class=”p1″>“As global temperatures and greenhouse gas emissions break records, the latest Emissions Gap Report… put[s] the world on track for a 2.5-2.9°C temperature rise,”12 13 which would very likely pose harm to Amazon’s business model and supply chain investments. New international reporting standards additionally mandate disclosures around climate transition strategy and lobbying alignment with such corporate planning, and will impact Amazon in the coming years.14 15</p>
<p class=”p1″>Proponents believe that corporate lobbying inconsistent with the Paris Agreement poses rising enterprise and macroeconomic risk to Amazon – including legal, physical, greenwashing, technological, logistical, and policy risks, among others. Shareholders need clear, credible information on whether and how Amazon’s direct and indirect lobbying is aligned with its stated climate targets – because evidence shows a trend whereby some companies tout their climate efforts while allowing the organizations and initiatives they support to block genuine decarbonization progress.</p>
<p class=”p4″><strong>Therefore, Be It Resolved: </strong>Done at reasonable cost and omitting confidential/proprietary information, Amazon shareholders request the Board report on its framework for identifying and addressing misalignment between the Company’s Net Zero (emissions) climate commitments and its lobbying and policy influence activities and positions. This report should cover both direct and indirect activities undertaken through trade associations, coalitions, alliances, and social welfare organizations, and reference the criteria used to assess alignment/misalignment.</p>
<p class=”p1″>1  Drawn from: https://www.unpri.org/download?ac=22189</p>
<p class=”p2″>2 https://s2.q4cdn.com/299287126/files/doc_downloads/2021/political_engagement/2021-Political- Engagement-Statement.pdf | https://lobbymap.org/influencer/California-Chamber-of-Commerce- 5bd0824487d9cdacdc577e0af93089ed</p>
<p class=”p3″>3  https://www.aei.org/articles/what-we-really-know-about-climate-change</p>
<p class=”p4″>4    https://s2.q4cdn.com/299287126/files/doc_downloads/2022/Note-on-Alignment-with-Paris-Agreement.pdf</p>
<p class=”p5″>5    https://s2.q4cdn.com/299287126/files/doc_downloads/2022/Note-on-Alignment-with-Paris-Agreement.pdf</p>
<p class=”p6″>6  https://s2.q4cdn.com/299287126/files/doc_downloads/2023/05/2023-political-engagement-statement.pdf</p>
<p class=”p7″>7 https://www.unilever.com/files/368f87cb-dba5-4898-8ef6-eea52cb609c9/unilever-climate-policy- engagement-review.pdf</p>
<p class=”p4″>8  https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RW1h4DT</p>
<p class=”p7″>9 https://www.enel.com/content/dam/enel-com/documenti/investitori/sostenibilita/2023/enel-engagement- associations-involved-climate-policy-advocacy-2023.pdf | https://www.unilever.com/files/368f87cb-dba5- 4898-8ef6-eea52cb609c9/unilever-climate-policy-engagement-review.pdf | https://www.bayer.com/sites/default/files/Bayer%20Climate%20Review%202023.pdf</p>
<p class=”p7″>10 https://reports.shell.com/climate-and-energy-transition-lobbying-report/2022/our-lobbying/2023-lobbying- priorities.html</p>
<p class=”p8″>11 https://www.bhp.com/sustainability/climate-change/advocacy-on-climate-policy | https://www.unilever.com/files/368f87cb-dba5-4898-8ef6-eea52cb609c9/unilever-climate-policy- engagement-review.pdf</p>
<p class=”p1″>12  https://climateactiontracker.org/global/cat-emissions-gaps</p>
<p class=”p2″>13 https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/nations-must-go-further-current-paris-pledges-or-face- global-warming | https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2023</p>
<p class=”p3″>14 https://xbrl.efrag.org/e-esrs/esrs-set1-2023.html#8613</p>
<p class=”p4″>15  https://commission.europa.eu/business-economy-euro/doing-business-eu/sustainability-due-diligence-responsible- business/corporate-sustainability-due-diligence_en</p>

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<div class=”views-field views-field-nothing”><span class=”field-content”> Bruce Herbert, AIF</span></div><div class=”views-field views-field-title views-field-field-shareholder”><span class=”field-content”>Newground Social Investment</span></div>
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<p>Collective Bargaining/Unionization, Human Capital Risk Management </p>
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<p class=”p1″><strong>Resolved: </strong>Shareholders urge the Board of Directors to commission an independent, third-party assessment of Amazon’s adherence to its stated commitment to workers’ freedom of association and collective bargaining rights as outlined in Amazon’s Global Human Rights Principles, which explicitly reference the Core Conventions of the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. The assessment should address any instances of management interference when employees exercise their right to form or join a trade union in Amazon’s global operations as well as steps to remedy any practices inconsistent with Amazon’s stated commitments. The assessment, prepared at reasonable expense and omitting confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information, should be publicly disclosed on Amazon’s website by November 30, 2025.</p>
<p class=”p2″><strong>Supporting Statement:</strong></p>
<p class=”p3″>Amazon states, “we respect and support the Core Conventions of the International Labor Organization and the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work” and says it respects workers’ right to join or form a union “without fear of reprisal, intimidation, or harassment”1 an important recognition that the fulfilment of these rights is conditioned by how employers choose to respond to union organizing efforts.</p>
<p class=”p4”>For years, Amazon has faced global negative media coverage,2,3 accusing the company of interfering with workers’ exercise of their rights through anti-unionization tactics,4 including allegations of intimidation, 5 retaliation6 and surveillance7. In Europe, Amazon has faced multiple conflicts over labor relations in France,8 the UK,9 and Germany.10 U.S. regulator and courts have ruled against Amazon repeatedly over labor relations cases.11,12,13 In 2024, an National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Administrative Law Judge found that some public comments made by Amazon CEO interfered with employees’ exercise of their rights and thereby engaged in unfair labor practices {ULP).14,15,16 In November 2024, the NLRB also ruled that captive audience meetings such as the “mandatory meetings” held by Amazon were unlawful and found that Amazon engaged in unfair labor practices by threatening to withhold employee improvements in wages and benefits if workers unionized.17,18 In 2024, 171 unfair labor practices charges have been filed against Amazon19, 135 of which NLRB deems open as of December 3, 2024.</p>
<p class=”p6″>The apparent misalignment between Amazon’s commitment and its reported conduct represents reputational and operational risks that may negatively impact Amazon’s long-term performance.</p>
<p class=”p7″>Other companies, such as Apple and Starbucks, have completed independent assessments of their adherence to their commitments to workers’ freedom of association and collective bargaining rights.20 A similar independent assessment would help investors assess Amazon’s adherence to its human rights commitments.</p>
<p class=”p1″>1  https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/governance/amazon-global-human-rights-principles ‘https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/technology/amazon-unions-virginia.html</p>
<p class=”p2″>https://novaramedia.com/2022/1 0/18/inside-the-fight-for-the-uks-first-formal-amazon-warehouse-strike/; https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/sep/30/trade-unions-urge-eu-to-investigate-amazon-effort-to-spy-on-workers</p>
<p class=”p3″>4  https://pressprogress.ca/amazons-anti-unlon-tactics-around-the-world-show-what-canadian-warehouse-workers-are-up-against/</p>
<p class=”p4″>5   https://nypost.com/2021/04/19/amazon-used-illegal-intimidation-tactics-in-ala-vote-union/</p>
<p class=”p5″>6 https://www.nbcnews.c.om/buslness/business-news/fired-interrogated-dlsciplined-amazon-warehouse-organizers-allege-year-retaliation-n1262367</p>
<p class=”p6″>7    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/24/how-amazon-prevents-unions-by-surveilllng-employee-actlvism.html</p>
<p class=”p7″>8  https://www,lemonde.fr/economie/article/2022/04/06/les-craintes-sur-le-pouvoir-d-achat-nourrissent-la-mobilisatlon-de-salaries-d-amazonfrance 6120930 3234,html</p>
<p class=”p9″>9  https1/www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/08/gmb-accuses-amazon-union-busting-tactics-midlands-warehouses</p>
<p class=”p10″>10  https:J/www.reuters.com/business/retall-consumer/german-union-verdi-calls-strikes-amazon-black-friday-2023-11-23/</p>
<p class=”p11″>11   https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/amazon-must-face-third-union-election-alabama-warehouse-nlrb-judge-rules-2024-11-06/</p>
<p class=”p12″>12   https://www.nytimes.com(2022/04/18/buslness/amazon-protest-firing-ruling.html</p>
<p class=”p11″>13  https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/nlrb-reglon-29-wins-federal-court-order-requiring-amazon-to-cease-and</p>
<p class=”p13″>14 https://apps.nlrb.gov/llnk/document.asp 09031d4583d193b2</p>
<p class=”p11″>15    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/02/amazon-ceo-union-labor-law-ruling</p>
<p class=”p14″>16 Amazon filed an exception: https://www.nlrb.gov/case/19·CA-297441</p>
<p class=”p15″>17  https://www  .reuters.com/technology/us-labor-board-bans-mandatory-anti-union-meetings-ruling-against-amazon-2024-11-13I;  https://www .nlrb.gov/news outreach/news-story/board-rules-captive-audience-meetings-unlawful</p>
<p class=”p16″>18 Amazon filed a petition for review: https://www.nlrb.gov/case/29-CA-280153</p>
<p class=”p11″>19  https://www.nlrb.gov/search/case/Amazon,com%20Services%20LLC?date_start=01%2F01%2F2024&date_end=12%2F31%2F2024</p>
<p class=”p17″>20  https://s2.q4cdn.com/470004039/filesldoc_downloads/2023/apple-workers-rights-assessment-december-2023.pdf; https://stories.starbucks.com/uploads/2023/12/Abridged-GHRS-Report.pdf</p>
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<div class=”views-field views-field-nothing”><span class=”field-content”> Sarah Couturier-Tanoh</span></div><div class=”views-field views-field-title views-field-field-shareholder”><span class=”field-content”>Shareholder Association for Research and Education (SHARE)</span></div>
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<div class=”views-field views-field-nothing”><span class=”field-content”> Barbara McCracken</span></div><div class=”views-field views-field-title views-field-field-shareholder”><span class=”field-content”>Monasterio Pan de Vida</span></div>
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<div class=”views-field views-field-nothing”><span class=”field-content”> Christine Harris</span></div><div class=”views-field views-field-title views-field-field-shareholder”><span class=”field-content”>Hill-Snowdon Foundation</span></div>
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<div class=”views-field views-field-nothing”><span class=”field-content”>Mr. Edmond Ho</span></div><div class=”views-field views-field-title views-field-field-shareholder”><span class=”field-content”>Vancity Investment Management</span></div>
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<p class=”p1″><strong>WHEREAS: </strong>Without immediate and sustained new commitments throughout the plastics value chain, annual flows of plastics into oceans could nearly triple by 2040.1</p>
<p class=”p3″>The growing plastic pollution crisis poses increasing risks to Amazon. Corporations could face an annual ﬁnancial risk of approximately $100 billion should governments require them to cover the waste management costs of packaging they produce.2 Governments around the world are increasingly enacting such policies, including ﬁve new state laws that impose fees on corporations for single-use plastic (SUP) packaging.3 The European Union has banned ten SUP pollutants and taxed some non- recycled plastic packaging.4 A French law requires 10% of packaging be reusable by 2027 and Portugal requires 30% reusable packaging by 2030.5 Additionally, consumer demand for sustainable packaging is increasing.6</p>
<p class=”p3″>Pew Charitable Trusts’ groundbreaking study, Breaking the Plastic Wave (“Pew Report”), concluded that improved recycling alone is insuﬃcient to address plastic pollution—instead, recycling must be coupled with reductions in use, materials redesign, and substitution.7 The Pew Report ﬁnds that the greatest opportunity to reduce or eliminate plastic lies with ﬂexible plastic packaging, often used for chips, sweets, and condiments among other uses, and virtually unrecyclable in America. With innovation, redesign, and substitution, 26 million metric tons of ﬂexibles can be avoided globally.8</p>
<p class=”p3″>The Company markets more than 100 brands of consumer goods, food, and beverages, many of which are packaged in flexible plastic. Its Whole Foods subsidiary and Happy Belly brand sell numerous goods in flexible multi-layer packaging that cannot be routinely recycled. The Company is also notably absent from participation in the largest pre-competitive corporate initiative to address plastic pollution, the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment. Competitors, including Walmart and Target, have adopted goals to make plastic packaging recyclable, reusable, or compostable by 2025, while Amazon has not.</p>
<p class=”p3″>Our Company could avoid regulatory, environmental, and competitive risks by adopting a comprehensive approach to addressing ﬂexible plastic packaging use at scale.</p>
<p class=”p3″><strong>RESOLVED: </strong>Shareholders request that the Board issue a report, at reasonable expense and excluding proprietary information, describing how Amazon could address ﬂexible plastic packaging in alignment with the ﬁndings of the Pew Report, or other authoritative sources, to reduce its contribution to plastic pollution.</p>
<p class=”p1″><strong>SUPPORTING STATEMENT: </strong>The report should, at Board discretion:</p>

Assess the reputational, ﬁnancial, and operational risks associated with continuing to use non- recyclable plastic packaging while plastic pollution grows;
Evaluate actions to achieve fully recyclable packaging including elimination and accelerated research into innovative reusable substitution; and
Describe opportunities to pre-competitively work with peers to research and develop reusable packaging as an alternative to single-use packaging.

<p class=”p1″>1 https://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/assets/2020/10/breakingtheplasticwave_mainreport.pdf, p.4</p>
<p class=”p2″>2 https://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/assets/2020/10/breakingtheplasticwave_mainreport.pdf, p.9</p>
<p class=”p3″>3 https://www.packworld.com/sustainable-packaging/recycling/article/22922253/ameripen-shares-key-lessons-from-early-epr- adopters</p>
<p class=”p2″>4  https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/plastics/single-use-plastics_en</p>
<p class=”p2″>5  https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/51843/plastics-reuse-and-refill-laws</p>
<p class=”p2″>6  https://www.shorr.com/resources/blog/the-2022-sustainable-packaging-consumer-report/</p>
<p class=”p2″>7 https://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/assets/2020/10/breakingtheplasticwave_mainreport.pdf, p.9</p>
<p class=”p3″>8 https://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/assets/2020/10/breakingtheplasticwave_mainreport.pdf, p.51; https://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/assets/2020/10/breakingtheplasticwave_mainreport.pdf, p.51</p>

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<div class=”views-field views-field-nothing”><span class=”field-content”>Mr. Conrad MacKerron</span></div><div class=”views-field views-field-title views-field-field-shareholder”><span class=”field-content”>As You Sow</span></div>
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<p><strong>RESOLVED, </strong>that shareholders of Amazon Inc. (“Amazon”) urge the board of directors to oversee an independent Data Protection Impact Assessment[1] on the company’s healthcare service offerings that describes how the company is ensuring appropriate use of, and informed consent for collection of, patient data. The assessment should cover Amazon OneMedical and Amazon Pharmacy, be prepared at reasonable cost and omitting confidential and proprietary information and be made available on Amazon’s web site.</p>
<p><strong>WHEREAS</strong>: In light of publicly[2] discussed problems around the lack of transparency about how Amazon uses data, investors are concerned about the company’s plans for protecting a person’s most private data – their personal health information. Given the interconnectedness of the company’s businesses, we want to know that privacy and data sharing policies are appropriately described and enforced with respect to patient data. A troubling report from NPR implies Amazon is already misleading potential customers into sharing their personal medical information[3].</p>
<p>Americans don’t know how companies use their data. One study from Pew Research Center found that 67% say they understand little to nothing about what companies are doing with their personal data, and 73% believe they have little to no control over what companies do with that data[4].</p>
<p>While we expect that Amazon is complying with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other relevant laws, HIPAA only covers certain circumstances with specific and highly sensitive data, and there are privacy concerns that extend beyond its reach. As a regulation, HIPAA focuses on the provider, not the technology solution. This means that privacy risks not protected by HIPAA apply to Amazon, and it is important to know how the company is managing those by informing patients that their data may be used in ways they did not anticipate[5].</p>
<p>In fact, just last year the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took enforcement action against GoodRx for sharing sensitive personal health information for years with advertising companies and platforms—contrary to its privacy promises—and failed to report these unauthorized disclosures[6]. Of course, Amazon would not need to sell this data in order to monetize it as they own many platforms that use customer data to make a profit, which makes this issue even more concerning. Additionally, last year Senator Josh Hawley wrote a letter to the FTC asking it to investigate the acquisition of OneMedical because of his concerns with Amazon having access to “enormous tranches of patient data”[7]. </p>
<p>We believe that what gets disclosed gets managed. Amazon, a company with a long history of privacy[8] and data protection[9] controversies[10], needs to demonstrate that investors and patients alike can trust it with sensitive data. An assessment that discloses information about how the company is ensuring patients are informed about what data is collected and how it will be used, would mitigate reputational, financial and legal risk from Amazon’s commercial healthcare offerings.</p>
<p>[1] https://gdpr.eu/data-protection-impact-assessment-template/</p>
<p>[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/07/22/amazon-one-medical-privacy/</p>
<p>[3] https://www.npr.org/2023/05/06/1174468793/amazons-affordable-healthcare-service-has-a-hidden-cost-your-privacy</p>
<p>[4] https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2023/10/18/how-americans-view-data-privacy/</p>
<p>[5] https://www.renalandurologynews.com/features/amazons-virtual-health-clinic-raises-patient-privacy-issues/</p>
<p>[6] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/02/ftc-enforcement-action-bar-goodrx-sharing-consumers-sensitive-health-info-advertising</p>
<p>[7] https://www.techtarget.com/healthtechsecurity/news/366594701/Amazons-Potential-Acquisition-of-One-Medical-Sparks-Health-Data-Privacy-Security-Concerns</p>
<p>[8] https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/collection-voice-data-profit-raises-privacy-fears/story?id=96363792</p>
<p>[9] https://www.reuters.com/technology/look-intimate-details-amazon-knows-about-us-2021-11-19/</p>
<p>[10] https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/07/16/2913783/0/en/Study-reveals-smart-home-privacy-risks-with-Amazon-Alexa-the-most-hungry-for-user-data.html</p>

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<p><strong>Resolved, </strong>shareholders of Amazon request the preparation of a report, updated annually, disclosing: Company policy and procedures governing lobbying, both direct and indirect, and grassroots lobbying communications. 2. Payments by Amazon used for (a) direct or indirect lobbying or (b) grassroots lobbying communications, in each case including the amount of the payment and the recipient. 3. Description of management’s and the Board’s decision-making process and oversight for making payments described in sections 1 & 2 above. </p>
<p>For purposes of this proposal, a “grassroots lobbying communication” is a communication directed to the general public that (a) refers to specific legislation or regulation; (b) reflects a view on the legislation or regulation; and (c) encourages the recipient of the communication to take action with respect to the legislation or regulation. “Indirect lobbying” is lobbying engaged in by a trade association or other organization of which Amazon is a member. Both “direct and indirect lobbying” and “grassroots lobbying communications” include efforts at the local, state and federal levels. The report shall be presented to the Audit Committee and posted on Amazon’s website. </p>
<p><strong>Supporting Statement </strong></p>
<p>     Full disclosure of Amazon’s lobbying activities and expenditures is needed to assess whether its lobbying is consistent with Amazon’s expressed goals and shareholders’ best interests. Amazon spent $141,680,000 on federal lobbying from 2015 – 2023. Amazon also lobbies extensively at the state level, and to its credit, reports its state lobbying.1 Amazon also lobbies abroad, spending between €5,000,000 – 5,499,999 on lobbying in Europe for 2023. </p>
<p>       Companies can give unlimited amounts to third party groups that spend millions on lobbying and undisclosed grassroots activity.2 Amazon lists support of $10,000 or more to 656 trade associations (TAs), social welfare groups (SWGs) and nonprofits for 2023, yet fails to disclose its payments, or the amounts used for lobbying. Amazon belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable (BRT), which have spent over $2.3 billion on lobbying since 1998, supports SWGs that lobby like the National Taxpayers Union3 and Taxpayers Protection Alliance,4 and funds controversial nonprofits like the Independent Women’s Forum.5 Amazon’s disclosure leaves out TAs and SWGs that lobby, like the California Taxpayers Association, Silicon Valley Tax Directors Group (SVTDG) and Texas Taxpayers and Research Association.</p>
<p>     Amazon’s lack of disclosure presents reputational risks when its lobbying contradicts company public positions. Amazon strives to be the “Earth’s Best Employer,” yet had its lobbyists banned from the European parliament for refusing to attend hearings on worker violations.6 Amazon cofounded the Climate Pledge, yet the BRT filed an amicus brief opposing the Securities and Exchange Commission climate risk disclosure rules7 and the Chamber opposed the Paris climate accord. Amazon has drawn scrutiny for avoiding more than $1 billion in federal income taxes,8 the BRT has lobbied against a new minimum corporate tax,9 and the SVDTG lobbied against implementation of public country-by-country tax reporting in Australia.10 </p>
<p>     Amazon should expand its lobbying disclosure.</p>
<p>1https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/amazon-privacy-lobbying/.</p>
<p>2https://theintercept.com/2019/08/06/business-group-spending-on-lobbying-in-washington-is-at-least-double-whats-publicly reported/. </p>
<p>3https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/06/dark-money-groups-battle-efforts-to-limit-big-tech/.</p>
<p>4https://popular.info/p/donut-break-journalism. </p>
<p>5https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/27/amazon-donated-to-nonprofit-that-opposed-new-antitrust-bills.html. </p>
<p>6https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/23/amazon-tesla-meta-climate-change-democracy.</p>
<p>7https://www.eenews.net/articles/investors-question-business-roundtables-climate-rule-battle/.</p>
<p>8https://itep.org/corporate-tax-avoidance-trump-tax-cut-fdii/. </p>
<p>9https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/08/14/biden-corporate-tax/. </p>
<p>10 https://www.taxnotes.com/featured-news/pillar-2-concerns-persist-amid-australias-draft-intangibles-rule/2023/06/28/7gxkk.</p>
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Resolution Details

Company:

Amazon.com, Inc

Year:

2024

Issue Area:

Climate Change

Focus Area:

Just Transition

Status:

On Proxy

Resolution Text

RESOLVED: Shareholders request the Board of Directors prepare a report disclosing how Amazon.com, Inc., (“Amazon” or the “Company”) is addressing the impact of its climate change strategy on relevant stakeholders, including but not limited to employees, workers in its supply chain, and communities in which it operates, consistent with the “Just Transition” guidelines of the International Labor Organization and indicators of the World Benchmarking Alliance. The report should be prepared at reasonable cost, omit proprietary information, and be available to investors.

SUPPORTING STATEMENT: At the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference, the United States and other governments agreed to the Just Transition Declaration, which aligns with the “Just Transition” guidelines in the International Labor Organization’s Guidelines for a just transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and societies for all. The latter states that an environmentally sustainable future requires “anticipating impacts on employment, adequate and sustainable social protection for job losses and displacement, skills development and social dialogue.” (https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@ed_emp/ @emp_ent/documents/publication/wcms_432859.pdf.) Those guidelines emphasize the “pivotal role” of employers “in bringing about social, economic and environmental sustainability with decent work and social inclusion.”

The World Benchmarking Alliance’s indicators include discrete, time-based indicators, including those tied to developing a just transition plan through consultation with affected stakeholders; mitigating the negative social impacts of the carbon transition on workers and communities; establishing a clear process for identifying job dislocation risks for workers and communities; and developing plans to retain and reskill workers for an inclusive workforce. (See https://assets.worldbenchmarkingalliance.org/app/uploads/2021/07/Just-Transition-Methodology.pdf.)

Amazon has pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, a goal that suggests dramatic transformations in the way Amazon operates its vast transportation and logistical networks, bringing with it significant changes to the Company’s human capital needs. We believe it is crucial Amazon develop its decarbonization strategy with a systematic focus on ensuring a just and equitable energy transition. A 2022 study by the World Benchmarking Alliance found that the largest transportation companies—many of which approximate Amazon’s own transportation network—were ill-prepared to manage the social impacts of decarbonizing, placing millions of workers at risk. (See https://www.worldbenchmarkingalliance.org/publication/ transport/.)

A key area of uncertainty for investors is how some of Amazon’s technological solutions to the climate crisis, such as its investments in electric and autonomous vehicles, impact jobs and communities, including those along its supply chains and transportation networks. A just transition report would help investors better understand the interplay of these technologies, the Company’s climate commitments, and its human capital management practices as well as its broader stakeholder relationships. As one of the largest private employers in the world, with extensive logistical operations, Amazon has a key role in supporting social fairness as the world attempts to decarbonize.

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Amazon.com, Inc

Year:

2024

Issue Area:

Climate Change

Focus Area:

GHG Reduction and Targets

Status:

Filed

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WHEREAS: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that immediate and significant emissions reductions are required of all market sectors to stave off the worst consequences of climate change.1In response to this climate crisis, investors are seeking transparent climate-related risk disclosures from companies, including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disclosures, to inform their investment decision-making.2

For most retailers, Scope 3 product-related value chain activities are the largest source ofemissions.3 Product-related value chain emissions include “all the emissions generated to make the products that retailers sell (upstream emissions) and the emissions that customers create by using and ultimately disposing of the products that they purchase (downstream emissions).”4 Because they constitute a significant portion of retailers’ total emissions, meaningful efforts by retailers to reduce their contribution to systemic climate risk must address these product-related emissions.

Amazon does not meet this standard. It discloses product-related value chain GHG emissions only for its private label(i.e., Amazon-branded)products.5 However, Amazon states that “private brands sales represent only about 1% of our total sales.”6 Amazon therefore fails to disclose upstream and downstream emissions associated with 99% of its direct product sales.

Under the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) protocol, retail companies should count the emissions associated with all products they sell to consumers.7 Peers Target and Walmart each disclose emissions from all product sales, not just their private label products.8 Disclosing the GHG emissions associated with only a fraction of a retailer’s product sales, as Amazon does, risks providing a misleading impression of the retailer’s total emissions and its exposure to climate-related risk.

By disclosing all material Scope 3 value chain emissions, Amazon can prepare for climate regulation, address systemic climate risk, insulate itself from potential reputational harm, increase the legitimacy of its climate targets, and position itself to maximize benefits from climate-related opportunities.

RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Amazon disclose all material Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions.

1https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_SYR_FullVolume.pdfp.20

2 https://www.sec.gov/files/33-11042-fact-sheet.pdfp.1

3 https://nrf.com/blog/retailers-set-science-based-targets-address-climate-change

4 https://nrf.com/blog/retailers-set-science-based-targets-address-climate-change

5 https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/2022-sustainability-report.pdfp.12

6 https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110883/documents/HHRG-116-JU05-20200729-QFR052.pdfp. 23-24

7 https://revealnews.org/article/private-report-shows-how-amazon-drastically-undercounts-its-carbon-footprint/

8 https://corporate.target.com/getmedia/9fecfc3e-8855-48b1-a8c7-dca158e77564/2022-CDP-Climate-Response.pdfp. 64-74;https://corporate.walmart.com/content/dam/corporate/documents/esgreport/cdp-response-archive/cdp-climatechange2021.pdfp.20-24;https://revealnews.org/article/private-report-shows-how-amazon-drastically-undercounts-its-carbon-footprint/

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Company:

Amazon.com, Inc

Year:

2024

Issue Area:

Environment

Focus Area:

Plastics Pollution

Status:

Filed

Resolution Text

WHEREAS: Without immediate and sustained new commitments to make packaging recyclable, reusable, or compostable, and to reduce overall plastic use, annual flows of plastics into oceans could nearly triple by 2040.1 Unfortunately, the authoritative study Breaking the Plastic Wave, by Pew Charitable Trusts (Pew Report), concluded that if all current industry and government commitments were met, ocean plastic deposition would be reduced by only 7%.

Improved recycling must be coupled with reductions in use, materials redesign, and substitution. The Pew Report concludes that plastic demand should be reduced by at least one-third to cut ocean plastic pollution 80% by 2040, and that reducing plastic production is the most attractive solution from environmental, economic, and social perspectives. Countries and other major brands have committed to significant cuts in the use of virgin and single-use plastics.2

This growing plastic pollution crisis poses increasing risks to Amazon. Corporations could face an annual financial risk of approximately $100 billion should governments require them to cover the waste management costs of the packaging they produce, a policy that is increasingly being enacted around the globe.3

Amazon has disclosed how much plastic it uses to ship orders but does not disclose how much plastic packaging it uses overall. The Company markets more than 100 brands of consumer goods, food, and beverages, many of which are packaged in plastic. Its Whole Foods subsidiary and Happy Belly brand sell numerous goods in flexible multi-layer packaging that cannot be routinely recycled. The Company is also notably absent from participating in the largest pre-competitive corporate initiative to address plastic pollution, the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment. Competitors, including Walmart and Target, have adopted goals to make plastic packaging recyclable, reusable, or compostable by 2025, while Amazon has not.

Reducing Amazon’s overall plastic packaging and making all packaging recyclable are necessary steps to combat the plastic pollution crisis. Our Company is overdue on taking action on this important issue.

BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request the Amazon Board issue a report, at reasonable expense and excluding proprietary information, describing how the Company could reduce its plastics footprint by committing to make all packaging curbside recyclable, reusable, or compostable. The report should also describe setting goals for overall plastic packaging reduction in alignment with the findings of the Pew Report, or other authoritative sources, to significantly reduce ocean plastic pollution.

SUPPORTING STATEMENT: The report should, at Board discretion:

Quantify the weight of total plastic packaging used by the Company;
Set a time-bound goal to make packaging curbside recyclable, reusable, or compostable;
Set a time-bound goal to reduce the amount of plastics used in Companypackaging;
Assess the reputational, financial, and operational risks associated with continuing to use substantial plastic packaging while plastic pollution grows;
Describe any planned reduction strategies or goals, materials redesign, transition to reusables, substitution, or reductions in Company use of plastic packaging.

1 https://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/assets/2020/07/breakingtheplasticwave_report.pdf, p.4

2 https://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/assets/2020/07/breakingtheplasticwave_report.pdf;https://www.asyousow.org/press-releases/2021/10/6/walmart-commits-plastic-reduction-goal

3 https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/canada-bans-single-use-plastics;https://www.packworld.com/news/sustainability/article/22419036/four-states-enact-packaging-epr-laws;https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/plastics/single-use-plastics_en

Disclose Material Scope 3 GHG Emissions

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