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Climate Week features its first in-person sessions since the start of the pandemic, with indigenous peoples bringing their message and knowledge thousands of miles from the Amazon.
Amazon has engaged in destruction of unsold and returned products. An investigation by ITV in 2021 found that Amazon was destroying 130,000 items of unsold stock a week at one of the company's fulfillment centers in Scotland. [26] The investigation uncovered a leaked document which had 124,000 items marked "destroy" and 28,000 items marked ...
The Climate Pledge Fund makes investments into early-stage companies focused on decarbonizing or sustainable technologies and services. The fund is part of Amazon's Climate Pledge initiative with climate advocacy group Global Optimism. It was funded with an initial $2 billion in June 2020.
Scientists consider the Amazon's protection vital to curbing climate change because of the vast amount of climate-warming carbon dioxide its trees absorb. Leftist Lula has pledged to end ...
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December: sixteen communities in Puerto Rico (U.S.) filed a first of its kind lawsuit against oil and coal companies under the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act—originally intended to combat criminal enterprises like the mafia—alleging the companies conspired to deceive the public about the climate crisis. [117 ...
Colombia's Petro argued that affluent nations should swap foreign debt owed by Amazon countries for climate action, saying that would create enough investment to power the Amazon region’s economy.
Toward the end of 2018, Costa joined Emily Cunningham, a former Amazon user experience designer, in a climate change initiative Amazon employee-led shareholder proposal. [5] In early 2019, the company met with Costa, Cunningham, and additional employees referring to themselves as Amazon Employees For Climate Justice to discuss the proposal ...