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The Bezos Earth fund has pumped billions into climate and nature projects. So why are experts uneasy?

www.theguardian.com

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The Bezos Earth fund has pumped billions into climate and nature projects. So why are experts uneasy?

www.theguardian.com

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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 6 months ago

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Jeff Bezos’s $10bn climate and biodiversity fund has garnered glittering prizes, but concerns have been voiced over the influence it can buy – and its interest in carbon offsets

I’ll note that the big spending announcement happened shortly after thousands of mostly HQ and engineering staff at Amazon signed an open letter asking the firm to decarbonize, so it can be seen as a way to buy influence and limit labor action.

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