Early this year, the world’s richest man and Amazon founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos announced the $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund to fund activists, scientists and NGOs in an effort to preserve and protect the natural world.
According to the Atlantic, Bezos will commit $100 million each to four of the most established environmental organizations in the United States — the Nature Conservancy, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the World Wildlife Fund.
Bezos has also committed $100 million to the World Resources Institute, a sustainability-research organization.
Smaller amounts of $10 million to $50 million have been promised for the Energy Foundation, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the ClimateWorks Foundation, and the Rocky Mountain Institute which are working in the area of climate and energy research.
