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Amazon Creates a $2 Billion Climate Fund, as It Struggles to Cut its Own Emissions

posted by martyb on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the cleaning-up dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by Kitsune008 on Friday June 26 2020, @01:10AM

    by Kitsune008 (9054) on Friday June 26 2020, @01:10AM (#1012716)

    Where's my $2B?

    It's been sunk into the hopeless cause of educating you. Wasted. Thrown away. Gone.

    Now, repeat after me ten times:

    "Jeff Bezos is not Mark Zuckerberg...Mark Zuckerberg is not Jeff Bezos."
    "Jeff Bezos is not Mark Zuckerberg...Mark Zuckerberg is not Jeff Bezos."
    "Jeff Bezos is not Mark Zuckerberg...Mark Zuckerberg is not Jeff Bezos."
    "Jeff Bezos is not Mark Zuckerberg...Mark Zuckerberg is not Jeff Bezos."
    "Jeff Bezos is not Mark Zuckerberg...Mark Zuckerberg is not Jeff Bezos."
    "Jeff Bezos is not Mark Zuckerberg...Mark Zuckerberg is not Jeff Bezos."
    ...ad nauseum...

    And, you are expected to repay the $2,000,000,000.00 USD that was wasted on your pathetic excuse for an education.
    Be grateful that more amends are not requested! Beware!

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