Jeff Bezos: $ 10 billion for climate change, but perhaps when it is too late

Jeff Bezos: $ 10 billion for climate change, but perhaps when it is too late

Responds to the name of "Bezos Earth Fund" the new billionaire initiative Jeff Bezos, chief group manager Amazon. $ 10 billion for researchers, activists and NGOs that will be awarded starting next summer. The goal will help fight the climate change, a recurring theme in the recent period in the public debate.

The Bezos announcement, made through Instagram, also derives from the recent protests made by a committee of Amazon employees, who have explicitly asked the company, through Medium, for greater efforts in this great topic in recent years. Also because the group, now the reference e-commerce and in continuous climb, certainly contributes to the worsening of the climate with the huge infrastructure, between warehouses and deliveries, on which its business is based.

Amazon pointed to being one of the leading greenhouse gas producers with the emission into the atmosphere of large quantities of carbon dioxide, due to the articulated logistic network of road transport which became necessary to guarantee the rapid delivery of packages. According to the online platform 'Climate Watch', Amazon produces 44.4 million tons of CO2 in a year, or as much as 10% of the whole of France.

The Amazon employees mentioned adhere to theAmazon Employees for Climate Justice (Aecj), through which they intend to push management to review their environmental policies. The tug of war between management and employees started last September when Bezos presented a plan for achieving Amazon's zero emissions in 2040. According to the AECJ, the company is expected to aim for carbon neutrality in 2030.

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Bezos has an estimated personal wealth of around 130 billion dollars, therefore a subsidy of 10 billion it should not put too much strain on your personal budget. In the past, the entrepreneur has been very generous in other philanthropic initiatives, while not shouting at the winds like other protagonists in the world of technology. In 2018, it launched a network of free nonprofit kindergartens to build in low-income communities and in 2017 it promoted a campaign via Twitter to reach and help people in need.

Bezos, however, has not joined the The Giving Pledge, a campaign to encourage extremely wealthy people to contribute most of their wealth to philanthropic causes. Of the five people in the world, the only one not to participate in the initiative, while his wife MacKenzie Bezos joined it last May.


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