Amazon, Meta, Google Fund Emissions Reporting Embraced by SEC

Amazon.com Inc. blocked an investor from seeking more greenhouse gas emissions disclosures at the company’s upcoming annual meeting, saying its reporting meets industry-backed standards.

Left unsaid: it helps finance the initiative behind those voluntary guidelines, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.

The GHG Protocol—which also counts Google parent Alphabet Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. among its 10 current funders—has been playing an outsized role not just in corporate deflections against enhanced climate disclosures but also in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s corporate emissions reporting plans.

Amazon declined to comment on its funding for the protocol. The company’s decision to toss the ...