Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin and Amazon, pledges an additional $2 billion to restore nature and transform food systems as part of the $10 billion budget of the Bezos Earth Fund. ) to “combat climate change, improve nature and advance environmental justice and economic opportunity”.
Making the announcement at COP26 in Glasgow, he said: “We need to conserve what we still have, we need to restore what we’ve lost and we need to live without degrading the planet for future generations to come.”
Bezos said his space flight reminded him that nature is fragile, the Earth is finite, and the atmosphere is thin.
The announcement comes at a time when world leaders have emphasized the need for the private sector to play a greater role in the fight against climate change.
Reference: CNN Brasil
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