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FedEx CSO Karen Blanks Ellis Named to 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders List
Chief sustainability officer's recognition coincides with FedEx engagements focused on aviation and natural carbon capture at Climate Week NYC NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / October 10, 2025 / Coinciding with Climate Week NYC 2025, Forbes …
Chief sustainability officer's recognition coincides with FedEx engagements focused on aviation and natural carbon capture at Climate Week NYC
NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / October 10, 2025 / Coinciding with Climate Week NYC 2025, Forbes recently named FedEx chief sustainability officer and vice president of Environmental Affairs, Karen Blanks Ellis, to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list, recognizing her leadership of the sustainability strategy for the world's largest express transportation company.
Blanks Ellis is one of fifty individuals recognized by Forbes on this year's list, which includes environmental ministers, climate tech entrepreneurs, globally recognized activists, and non-profit and private sector leaders. According to Forbes, the list celebrates leaders who are "defining what climate leadership looks like today" and whose "recent achievements prove that meaningful climate progress is happening now."
In recognizing Blanks Ellis and FedEx, Forbes highlighted the company's goal of carbon neutral operations by 2040, as well as the company's 6.1% year-over-year reduction in direct (Scope 1) emissions. Blanks Ellis attributed this decrease in emissions in large part to aircraft modernization and fuel conservation efforts-initiatives that also enabled the company to save $400 million in jet fuel costs in FY 2024.
Advancing an "all of the above" approach to aviation sustainability
Blanks Ellis' Forbes recognition coincided with FedEx participation in other events at Climate Week NYC, where FedEx convened discussions with customers, civil society, and scientific experts aimed at scaling solutions and identifying shared barriers to progress.
FedEx convened a roundtable with Foreign Policy that brought together experts from science, policy, finance, and business to explore how to scale existing-yet still emerging-natural carbon removal techniques. Additionally, Blanks Ellis joined Foreign Policy and aviation leaders on stage to advocate for a full suite of solutions to help the global aviation industry reach its sustainability goals: increased production of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), air traffic control improvements, more energy-efficient aviation technology, and the adoption of a global framework for international aviation emissions management.
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