What Bezos’s $10 Billion Can Do for the Climate Fight

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Feb 18, 2020 · 3 min read
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By Akshat Rathi

Jeff Bezos yesterday announced that he is committing $10 billion of his own wealth to save the planet. His 130-word post on Instagram was light on detail, but there’s still a lot we can tell based on what we do know.

This isn’t Bezos’s first big climate announcement, of course. In September, the world’s richest man committed Amazon…

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