Climate
Shopify Sustainability Fund
A global launchpad for climate entrepreneurs building tomorrow's groundbreaking technologies.
Decarbonization
Supporting entrepreneurs whose business is our planet
Commerce can only thrive in the long term if our planet thrives too.
That's why the Shopify Sustainability Fund backs technologies that remove carbon from the atmosphere, or prevent it from being released in the first place.
The return on our investment? Accelerated decarbonization and a thriving planet.
The Sustainability Fund is designed to:
Generate demand for climate technologies
Enable new companies to prove their impact and scale
Spend millions per year to drive down future prices
Funding
Where the funding goes
Shopify has partnered with more than 40 innovative companies that we believe can help reverse climate change.
There’s no easy fix for climate change, and no solution that will singlehandedly solve the problem. We have to try every possible nature-based and engineered option.
We need existing solutions that can make a difference now, and emerging technologies that could have a huge impact in the future.
Shopify’s Sustainability Fund intentionally overpays for carbon removal and reduction technologies, funding pilot projects and generating demand to kickstart their development and drive down future prices.
Partners
Our Sustainability Fund partners
Our partners are developing technologies with the potential to reach climate-relevant scales.
Remove
Carbon removal
Pulling carbon dioxide back out of the atmosphere
Direct Air Capture
Pulling carbon directly out of the air
Mineralization
Turning carbon into rock
Biomass
Sending carbon-rich waste for permanent storage
Ocean
Maximizing the world’s largest carbon sink
Forest
Leveraging technology for reforestation
Soil
Optimizing farming to store more carbon in soil
Reduce
Carbon reduction
Reducing the amount of carbon dioxide that gets emitted
Buildings
Using low-carbon materials in construction
Transportation
Shipping packages with lower emissions
Climate entrepreneurs
Are you building a technology that could reverse climate change? Could our commerce software help your business scale?
Collaboration
AirMiners Partnership
Shopify has partnered with AirMiners on its Kiloton Fund. AirMiners, the leading community of innovators on a mission to reverse climate change, is piloting a new funding model for early-stage carbon removal companies with its Kiloton Fund.
They’ve selected 20 startups to receive an upfront investment in exchange for a small portion of the company’s future revenue. It’s laying the groundwork for their larger Megaton Fund.
Shopify has put our support behind this innovative funding model by offering a purchase to each selected company.
Learn more
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.
Keep up to date
Stay in touch with Shopify’s commitment to climate action