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Excerpt from this press release from the Bezos Earth Fund:

The Bezos Earth Fund announced it awarded 44 grants totaling $443 million to organizations focused on climate justice, nature conservation and restoration, and tracking critical climate goals. The grants include $130 million to advance the Justice40 initiative in the U.S.; $261 million to further the 30x30 initiative to protect 30% of land and sea by 2030, with a focus on the Congo Basin and Tropical Andes; and $51 million to support land restoration in the U.S. and Africa. These grants are part of the Bezos Earth Fund’s $10 billion commitment to fight climate change, protect and restore nature, and advance environmental justice and economic opportunity.

Some specific grants:

Five grants totaling $14 million were made to advance a data collaborative for Justice40, ensuring that the initiative is supported and held accountable by high-quality information and analysis.

Grants totaling $47 million have been made to five NGOs selected based their expertise and networks that can be leveraged to access public dollars, drive Justice40 funding, and amplify community-focused action.

Five grants totaling $38 million were made to help Native American communities access Justice40 funding for clean energy and climate-resilient development.

Eight grants totaling $105.05 million were made to create more than 11 million hectares of new protected areas [in the Congo Basin], including the rights to 5 million hectares of land for local communities. The organizations will also work to strengthen the management of more than 60 million hectares of protected and conserved areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo.

To advance conservation in the Tropical Andes, 11 grants were made totaling $151.05 million for the creation of more than 48 million hectares of newly protected areas. This will secure the rights to 19 million hectares of lands for local communities and strengthen the management of more than 108 million hectares of protected areas in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.

A $5 million grant will also support the planning of the world’s largest transnational marine-protected area in the Galapagos and Eastern Pacific.

Grants totaling $25 million will support the creation of an innovative global mechanism proposed by the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities to provide direct support for IPLC [Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities] groups, working with the Rights and Resources Group and the Campaign for Nature.

Three organizations were granted a total of $51 million to restore degraded landscapes [in the US and Africa]—a critical way to reverse biodiversity loss, enhance water access and quality, build ecosystem resilience, create new jobs, and revive rural communities.

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Bezos Earth Fund Pledges $2B for Environment

Bezos Earth Fund Pledges $2B for Environment

The Bezos Earth Fund is promising to pour $2 billion into environmental protection, said founder Jeff Bezos as he spoke to world leaders at the COP26 climate summit on Tuesday, November 2nd. “Nature is beautiful, but it is also fragile,” said Bezos at the conference. “I was reminded of this in July when I went into space with Blue Origin. I was told seeing the earth from space changes the lens…

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Jeff Bezos to step down as CEO of Amazon | Business - Times of India Videos

Jeff Bezos to step down as CEO of Amazon | Business – Times of India Videos

Feb 03, 2021, 08:57AM ISTSource: TOI.in Founder of Amazon.com Inc, Jeff Bezos would step down as CEO and become executive chairman. The transition, slated for the third quarter, will make current cloud computing chief Andy Jassy Amazon’s next chief executive officer. Net sales rose to $125.56 billion as consumers turned to the world’s largest online retailer for holiday shopping, beating analyst…

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Excerpt from this story from the New York Times:

Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder and one of the world’s richest men, announced plans on Monday for $1 billion in conservation spending in places like the Congo Basin, the Andes and tropical parts of the Pacific Ocean.

The announcement was the latest step in his largest philanthropic effort, the Bezos Earth Fund, to which he pledged $10 billion last year. “By coming together with the right focus and ingenuity, we can have both the benefits of our modern lives and a thriving natural world,” Mr. Bezos said on Monday at an event in New York.

The money will be used “to create, expand, manage and monitor protected and conserved areas,” according to a news release from the fund, which also introduced a website on Monday.

The initiative is intended to support an international push to safeguard at least 30 percent of Earth’s lands and waters by 2030, known as 30x30. The plan, led by Britain, Costa Rica and France, is intended to help tackle a global biodiversity crisis that puts a million species of plants and animals at risk of extinction. While climate change is part of the problem, activities like farming and fishing have been even bigger drivers of biodiversity loss. The 30x30 plan would try to slow that by protecting intact natural areas like old-growth forests and wetlands, which not only nurture biodiversity but also store carbon and filter water.

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Interesting article I saw a few weeks ago. Particularly interesting as it relates to in-class discussion.

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Amazon Boss Jeff Bezos Launches $10 Billion Fund to Combat Climate Change

Amazon Boss Jeff Bezos Launches $10 Billion Fund to Combat Climate Change

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Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon and the world’s richest man, said Monday he was committing $10 billion to a new fund to tackle climate change. In a post to his 1.4 million followers on Instagram, the e-commerce tycoon said the Bezos Earth Fund would “fund scientists, activists, NGOs — any effort that offers a real possibility to help preserve and protect the natural world.”

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Amazon Boss Jeff Bezos Launches $10 Billion Fund to Combat Climate Change

Amazon Boss Jeff Bezos Launches $10 Billion Fund to Combat Climate Change

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Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon and the world’s richest man, said Monday he was committing $10 billion to a new fund to tackle climate change. In a post to his 1.4 million followers on Instagram, the e-commerce tycoon said the Bezos Earth Fund would “fund scientists, activists, NGOs — any effort that offers a real possibility to help preserve and protect the natural world.”

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Funny Curiosity: One Additional Tool How to fight Climate Change Problems

Funny Curiosity: One Additional Tool How to fight Climate Change Problems

The fantastic donation of Jeff Bezos for climate change impacts on the planet. Find out how much he donated and to whom. — Read on curiosgirlblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/one-additional-tool-how-to-fight.html

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Excerpt from this New York Times story:

Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive and the world’s richest man, said on Monday that he was committing $10 billion to address the climate crisis in a new initiative he called the Bezos Earth Fund.

The effort will fund scientists, activists and nongovernmental organizations, Mr. Bezos said in a post on Instagram. He said he expected to start issuing grants this summer.

“Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet,” he wrote. “I want to work alongside others both to amplify known ways and to explore new ways of fighting the devastating impact of climate change on this planet we all share.”

Mr. Bezos has in the past done little philanthropy. With a net worth of $130 billion, he long preferred to focus on Amazon and other private ventures, such as Blue Origin, which makes rockets. Mr. Bezos also owns The Washington Post.

In September, Mr. Bezos unveiled the Climate Pledge, committing Amazon to meeting the goals of the Paris climate agreement 10 years ahead of schedule and to be carbon neutral by 2040. As part of the pledge, Mr. Bezos said Amazon was ordering 100,000 electric delivery trucks from Rivian, a Michigan-based company that Amazon has invested in.

On Monday, Mr. Bezos provided only rudimentary details about what the new climate effort would do and did not directly address priorities that he would support, other than “any effort that offers a real possibility to help preserve and protect the natural world.”