The Latest Breaking News from the Bezos Earth Fund

Jeff Bezos and Leonardo DiCaprio have launched a $200 million conservation project to help 100 critically endangered species across 30 countries, including rare lemurs, pangolins, salamanders, tortoises and echidnas. The Phoenix Species Project will fund habitat restoration, conservation breeding, disease management and invasive-species control with support from local communities and…

The grants go toward researching new fabrics including bacteria-grown fiber, spider-silk substitutes, and gene-edited cotton.

Record heat waves and deadly weather disasters have punctuated a decade of missed climate targets.

The world has seen faster climate change than expected since the Paris Agreement a decade ago

Despite record clean energy investment, coal, deforestation and fossil fuel finance are still rising, warns new report.

Concerns raised as $10bn Bezos Earth Fund halts funding for Science Based Targets initiative, which monitors companies’ decarbonisation

Jeff Bezos’s $10bn climate and biodiversity fund has garnered glittering prizes, but concerns have been voiced over the influence it can buy – and its interest in carbon offsets

A new international report says the world is off track in its efforts to curb global warming in 41 of 42 important measurements and is even heading in the wrong direction in six crucial ways