Climate
Better commerce for a better planet
Shopify brings merchants, customers, and climate entrepreneurs together in the fight against climate change.
Climate Entrepreneurs
Shopify Sustainability Fund
The Shopify Sustainability Fund spends at least $5M annually on climate technologies and has committed an additional $100M to permanent carbon removal by 2030.
We back groundbreaking technologies that are removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or preventing its release in the first place.
Carbon-rich waste that's injected deep underground, fans sponging the air of greenhouse gasses, devices that capture emissions from semi-trucks as they drive – no solution is too ambitious or too crazy.
Our goal is to help prove, scale, and commercialize climate technology for massive impact in the long term. Because at the end of the day, commerce can only thrive if our planet thrives too.
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Shopify merchants and app developers
Shopify Planet
Shopify merchants can use Planet to offer carbon-neutral shipping, helping them appeal to modern consumers, all while supporting the same trailblazing projects that Shopify backs.
Planet works by estimating shipping emissions, and enabling both merchants and their customers to neutralize the carbon produced by their shipments. All of the money that Planet generates for carbon removal goes to entrepreneurial, early-stage companies that are actually removing emissions from the atmosphere.
With Planet, commerce entrepreneurs are funding climate entrepreneurs, and it’s happening via the entrepreneurship company – Shopify.
Planet connects us with customers by letting us fund innovators doing legitimately groundbreaking stuff.
Sell Credits On Shopify
Carbon Commerce
Climate companies can sell and manage carbon credits with Shopify – the all-in-one commerce platform for everything from multi-year corporate offtakes to monthly subscriptions.
With Shopify, companies can transact every type of deal, have their own storefront, confidently manage inventory, integrate with carbon removal registries, and more. Shopify positions companies to handle growth, mix-and-match tools, automate processes, and puts them at the bleeding edge.
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Shopify’s Footprint
We clean up after ourselves
Generating renewable power
Shopify is the first Canadian-founded company to sign a power purchase agreement for our home office energy use across North America. The deal enabled the development of a brand new wind farm in an area with one of the most carbon-intensive energy grids in North America.
Carbon-neutral platform
Data centers use a lot of energy. In 2018, we decommissioned all of our data servers and shifted entirely to Google Cloud. Google matches 100% of the energy consumed by Google Cloud with renewable energy, making Shopify a carbon-neutral platform.
Carbon-neutral company
Since 2019, we’ve procured enough green energy to account for our natural gas and electricity-related carbon footprint in Canada, while addressing our travel-related emissions with a combination of sustainable aviation fuel and carbon removal.
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Strength in numbers
We know that no single person or organization can solve climate change alone. If you're as eager to reverse climate change as we are, we want to hear from you.
Climate entrepreneurs
Are you building a technology that could reverse climate change? Could our commerce software help your business scale?
Tech partners
Have an innovative way for Shopify merchants to run sustainable businesses? We’d love to hear about it.
Guides and reports
A climate commitment years in the making
Here's how we got here, and where we're going.
2023
Our latest Climate Report
Understand how our Sustainability Fund initiatives meet the needs of the climate, our business and our merchants’ businesses.
2022
How to buy carbon removal
Buying carbon removal doesn't have to be complex or time-consuming. Any company can get involved as a buyer.
2020
Our carbon removal playbook
Check out our playbook to learn how we set up our Sustainability Fund, select companies, design contracts and the lessons we’ve learned.
2019
Why carbon removal
Shopify commits a minimum of $5M annually to fight for the environment with Shopify's Sustainability Fund.
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Stay in touch with Shopify’s commitment to climate action