The latest round of donations from the Amazon founder are to organizations focused on climate change:
... [+]Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has funneled $433 million to organizations focusing on climate change, the billionaire’s climate fundThe donations were made through the Bezos Earth Fund, which Bezos launched last year with a $10 billion commitment over 10 years to address climate change, which he“the biggest threat to our planet.” So far, the fund says it has distributed $1.4 billion in grants to nonprofits, NGOs and researchers working on the issue.
The latest round of grants went to 44 organizations, with more than half of the total—$261 million—going toward protecting forests and other ecosystems in the Congo Basin and the Tropical Andes. About $130 million went to organizations focused on climate justice for disadvantaged communities in America and another $51 million went toward land restoration in the U.S. and Africa.
Bezos—who is the second-richest person in the world, worth an estimated $199 billion—has been on a giving spree since he stepped down as CEO of Amazon earlier this year. Last month, Bezos committed $100 million to
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