Amazon employees embrace activism, echoing peers in Silicon Valley

Seattle: The employee activism that has roiled Silicon Valley in recent years has arrived at Amazon.com Inc.

When shareholders gather on Wednesday at Seattle’s Fremont Studios for the company’s annual meeting, a proposal from some 7,600 employees will call for Amazon to write a public report detailing how it’s preparing for climate-related disruptions and plans to reduce dependence on the fossil fuels blamed for much of the Earth’s warming.

Amazon opposes the resolution, citing ongoing efforts to reduce the amount of packaging it ships to consumers as well as investments in wind, solar energy and other alternatives. But two months after the proposal was filed, the company disclosed an initiative to eliminate carbon output from half of its customer deliveries by 2030.