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‘We can save Earth’: Jeff Bezos creates $10B ‘global initiative’ to battle climate change

By Tim Pearce
Published February 18, 2020 3:42pm ET
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‘We can save Earth’: Jeff Bezos creates $10B ‘global initiative’ to battle climate change
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos attends the premiere of "The Post " at The Newseum on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, in Washington. | (Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP)

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is pouring $10 billion into his own climate change initiative.

The wealthy businessman announced the “Bezos Earth Fund” in a post on Instagram Monday. Bezos, who is among the richest men in the world with a net worth of approximately $130 billion, also owns the Washington Post.

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