Amazon chief Jeff Bezos has pledged $10bn (£7.7bn) to a new fund to tackle local weather alter, but activists have urged the world’s richest person to 1st thoroughly clean up the e-commerce giant’s personal lacklustre environmental document.

The e-commerce tycoon mentioned the Bezos Earth Fund would “fund researchers, activists, NGOs – any effort that features a actual probability to aid protect and protect the normal planet”.

“Local weather alter is the most important menace to our world,” mentioned Bezos, whose is considered to be truly worth $130bn, mentioned in an Instagram submit to his 1.four million followers.

Nevertheless, Greenpeace United states of america mentioned Amazon however had “massive local weather issues,” inquiring: “Why won’t Bezos lead by cleansing up his personal dwelling?”

Hundreds of Amazon workers final month signed a weblog criticising the online retail giant’s local weather policies and demanding it do a lot more to tackle local weather