Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and the world’s second richest person, made a promise on Tuesday to pay the equivalent of R30 billion towards fixing food and forests on the African continent – reportedly after having a brief chat with Prince Charles.
Prince Charles and Jeff Bezos met for tea in Rome on Sunday before Bezos took to a platform next to France’s President to speak about African farmland.
Sources claimed that the meeting with Prince Charles was instrumental in getting Bezos to up his commitment to climate change.
“Two-thirds of the land in Africa is degraded, but this can be reversed,” Bezos said on Tuesday. “Restoration can improve soil fertility, raise yields and improve food security, make water more reliable, create jobs and boost economic growth, while also sequestering carbon.”
He would like to see a food transformation strategy “led by African nations”, Bezos told a COP26 event, after all that negotiating between northern-hemisphere people and powers.
Bezos’ pledge came alongside a massive commitment to reforestation, totaling about $19 billion, at the big climate meeting in Glasgow.
His $2 billion pledge is going “directly to restoring nature and transforming food systems”, he said, as part of a three-fold agenda: conservation, restoration, and food transformation.
Sources: Business Insider
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