
More than 200 companies joined a pledge to hit net-zero carbon by 2040
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More than 200 companies, including Twitter, Salesforce and Procter & Gamble, signed a climate pledge that aims to reduce their carbon emissions over the next two decades.
The project is part of a collaboration between Amazon and the advocacy group Global Optimism.
"The breadth of industry that's committed to this, the size of companies, the diversity of geographies — it's just a really incredible signal," Kara Hurst, the head of worldwide sustainability at Amazon, told CNN Business.

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