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Jeff Bezos Commits $10 Billion to Address Climate Change

Feb 21, 2020
4 min

Jeff Bezos Commits $10 Billion to Address Climate Change

Link to original article by Karen Weise. The world’s richest man unveiled a fund to help climate scientists and activists, an escalation of his philanthropic efforts. 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, he said in a post on Instagram. Mr. B

Climate crisis fills top five places of World Economic Forum’s risks report

Feb 6, 2020
3 min

Climate crisis fills top five places of World Economic Forum’s risks report

For first time, environment is at top of list of issues worrying world’s elite A year of extreme weather events and mounting evidence of global heating have catapulted the climate emergency to the top of the list of issues worrying the world’s elite. The World Economic Forum’s annual risks report found that, for the first time in its 15-year history, the environment filled the top five places in the list of concerns likely to have a major impact over the next decade. Børge Br

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