Jeff Bezos pledged $10 billion for climate change. With the 2030 clock ticking, his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, is leading the charge to spend it

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In 2020, Jeff Bezos made what remains the largest individual philanthropic commitment to climate and nature ever: $10 billion, to be fully disbursed by 2030 through the Bezos Earth Fund. 

But five years in, the fund has deployed roughly $2.3 billion of that commitment, leaving about $7 billion to go out the door before the 2020s end. Lauren Sánchez Bezos, who married Bezos last summer, is now the person setting the pace at the Bezos Earth Fund as vice chair, a position she’s held since the fund’s early days, when she was just his girlfriend.