The United Nations urged countries on Wednesday to set more ambitious climate plans during this month, seeking to pressure major economies including the EU and China ahead of this year's U.N. climate summit.

Jeff Bezos' Bezos Earth Fund is committing more than $25 million to ocean conservation across five Pacific island nations, adding to his broader $10 billion commitment to fight climate change and protect nature by 2030. The latest grants will support projects in the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Vanuatu, covering more than 625,000 square miles of ocean. The Bezos Earth Fund's latest figures show that it has granted $2.4 billion so far across seven programmes. That is about 24% of the $10 billion commitment, leaving roughly $7.6 billion still to be allocated by 2030. Bezos' $10 billion climate commitment Bezos established the Bezos Earth Fund in 2020 with a $10 billion commitment to fund scientists, activists, NGOs and other organisations working on climate and nature solutions. The fund says the money will be fully allocated by 2030, the year by which the UN Sustainable Development Goals are intended to be achieved. The Earth Fund distributes grants across multiple areas, including nature conservation, food systems, environmental justice, energy and industry decarbonisation, finance and markets, technology, and monitoring and accountability. How much has Bezos spent so far? According to the Earth Fund's current figures: Total commitment: $10 billion Granted...

Return with me now to the thrilling days of yesteryear. In 2020, Jeff Bezos announced that Amazon had paid a few hundred million dollars for the naming rights to the new hockey rink in Seattle. But instead of calling it Amazon Arena, he instead decided to commemorate his recent signature on a pledge to go carbon neutral. The name Climate Pledge Arena, if not as mellifluous as Wrigley Field or Candlestick Park, was intended, he said in an Instagram post, to be a regular reminder of the urgent need for climate action. Oh, and it would also be the first net zero carbon certified arena in the world, generate zero waste from operations and events, and use reclaimed rainwater in the ice system to create the greenest ice in the NHL. Look, even then this seemed mostly PR. Amazon first committed to the Climate Pledge itself—net zero by 2040—the day before a giant 2019 walkout organized by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice. The arena seemed kind of gimmicky from the start. As Ken Belson reported at the time: Watermelons are served as vegan sashimi, and their rinds are pickled and used in salads. Carrot tops are turned into gremolata, a...

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Brazil’s new climate pledge, launched at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by as much as two-thirds by 2035 compared to 2005 levels. The new pledge makes Brazil one of the first countries to...

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