More than 500 million tons of greenhouse gases a year are released, an amount that exceeds the UK’s annual emissions.
A natural gas flare burns near an oil pump jack at the New Harmony Oil Field in Grayville, Illinois, US, on Sunday, June 19, 2022. Top Biden administration officials are weighing limits on exports of fuel as the White House struggles to contain gasoline prices that have topped $5 per gallon.
The philanthropy says it’s committed to fulfilling the pledge by 2030.
Tom Taylor, president and chief executive officer of Bezos Earth Fund, at the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston, Texas, US, on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. The event convenes more than 10,000 participants from over 2,350 companies across 89 countries for dialogue on the agenda ahead as the world enters a new era of energy transition. Photographer: F. Carter Smith/Bloomberg
The philanthropy says it’s still committed to donating a record amount to environmental causes by the end of the decade. Most of the promised funds remain unspent.
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, speaks during the America Business Forum in Miami in November.
The tail of a Delta plane past a parking garage at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025. US airlines expect to ferry a record number of passengers over the holidays after a year in which economic uncertainty and a government shutdown have whipsawed travel demand. Photographer: Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg
Uber and other rideshare companies set grand ambitions to help their drivers transition to electric vehicles. But in a story that’s becoming increasingly common across the corporate world, they’re now backsliding on their climate commitments.
Uber Technologies Inc. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, July 21, 2025. The start of a busy week for Corporate America saw stocks climbing to fresh all-time highs, with traders looking for signs of resilience in earnings amid tariff risks.
Tesla Inc. co-founder JB Straubel’s battery recycling firm Redwood Materials Inc. cut dozens of jobs as the startup scales back some of its ambitious projects to refocus on tapping into demand for grid-scale batteries.
JB Straubel, co-founder and chief executive officer of Redwood Materials Inc., at the company's battery recycling and manufacturing facility in McCarran, Nevada, US, on Friday, March 22, 2024. Redwood plans to manufacture enough of cathode active material, responsible for a third of the cost of a battery, to build more than 1.3 million EVs a year by 2028, in addition to other battery components that have never been made in the US before.
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