Amazon creates a $2 billion climate fund, as it struggles to cut its own emissions:
Investment areas: In a press release, Amazon said the new fund would focus on startups that could help it and other businesses achieve "net zero" emissions by 2040. It will invest across a wide array of industries, including transportation, energy generation, energy storage, manufacturing, materials, and agriculture.
What's behind the move? The Seattle retail giant has come under growing pressure from the public and its own employees to shrink its environmental footprint as the dangers of global warming grow. [...]
Earlier Amazon efforts: Several days later, Amazon committed to achieve "net zero" emissions by 2040, which means it would need to offset any remaining emissions from its operations through investments in carbon removal projects, such as forest restoration or carbon capture machines. In February, chief executive Jeff Bezos, the world's richest person, announced he would donate $10 billion of his personal fortune to scientists, activists, and NGOs working to address climate change.
(Score: 4, Touché) by hendrikboom on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:58PM (5 children)
Bezos, not Zuckerberg.
(Score: 4, Touché) by DannyB on Thursday June 25 2020, @03:15PM (4 children)
No. Zuckerberg. This brilliant proposal did say Externalize
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 5, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Thursday June 25 2020, @04:35PM (3 children)
The alien parasite that controls them both is a hive-mind.
Once they have transformed the hellishly cold Earth to something suitable for their species, they can emerge and live in the open.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @04:38PM (1 child)
So it wants you to think. In reality is a single puppeteer manipulating both.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @05:37PM
A dubious distinction.
(Score: 3, Funny) by RS3 on Thursday June 25 2020, @05:33PM
Resistance is futile.