Climate
Shopify Sustainability Fund
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 supports technologies that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or prevent its release in the first place.
As part of this, we're a founding member of Frontier, an advance market commitment to purchase an initial $1 billion of permanent carbon removal by 2030.
The return on our investment? Accelerated decarbonization and a thriving planet.
The Sustainability Fund is designed to:
Funding
Where the funding goes
Shopify has partnered with more than 50 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
Remove
Carbon removal
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
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
2023
Our latest Climate Report
2022
How to buy carbon removal
2020
Our carbon removal playbook
2019
Why carbon removal