Bezos, the founder of Amazon, promised to invest $2 billion in restoring nature and transforming the food system.
The money will come from the Bezos Earth Fund, and it鈥檚 part of his promise to spend $10 billion fighting climate change by the end of the decade.
According to , Bezos made the promise at COP26 in Glasgow and said that 2021 is a critical year.
鈥淣ature is beautiful but it is also fragile,鈥� Bezos told delegates at the COP26 climate conference on Tuesday. “I was reminded of this in July when I went into space with Blue Origin. I was told seeing the earth from space changes the lens through which you view the world, but I was not prepared for just how much that would be true.鈥�
Bezos also talked about how much CO2 forests and landscapes absorb and how people reverse this process when they destroy nature.
Earlier this year, the Bezos Earth Fund also pledged $1 billion in grants that focus on conservation efforts.
That amounts to $3 billion in pledges, which Bezos hopes will be a threefold nature agenda that will focus on conservation, food transformation, and restoration.
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