{"id":29334,"date":"2021-03-04T09:53:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T15:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=29334"},"modified":"2021-03-08T11:52:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T17:52:40","slug":"fedex-pledges-2bn-towards-carbon-neutral-operations-by-2040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/fedex-pledges-2bn-towards-carbon-neutral-operations-by-2040\/","title":{"rendered":"FedEx pledges $2bn towards carbon-neutral operations by 2040"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FedEx announced Wednesday that it will invest an initial $2 billion toward sustainable energy initiatives, including more electric vehicles and carbon capture research.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>FedEx will invest at least $2 billion toward sustainable energy initiatives, including electric vehicles and carbon capture research, as part of a new pledge to become carbon neutral by 2040, an announcement by the company said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Memphis-based logistics giant said it aims to replace all of its parcel pickup and delivery\u00a0vehicles with a sustainable electric fleet by the date specified. In the meantime, FedEx, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fedex.com\/en-us\/about\/company-structure.html\">operates more than<\/a>\u00a0200,000 vehicles and 680 cargo airplanes, will continue investing in alternative fuels to reduce emissions from its aircrafts and vehicles, the company stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a responsibility to take bold action in addressing climate challenges,\u201d FedEx CEO Fred Smith said in a statement. \u201cThis goal builds on our longstanding commitment to sustainability throughout our operations, while at the same time investing in long-term, transformational solutions for FedEx and our entire industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FedEx announced Wednesday that it will invest an initial $2  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":29342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[4499],"class_list":["post-29334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-fedex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29349,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29334\/revisions\/29349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}