
Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, has made the second largest charitable gift in recent history.
The Amazon founder is giving $10 billion to a new initiative that will fund programs to combat the effects of climate change, he said in an Instagram post on Monday. The Bezos Earth Fund comes after years of criticism that the billionaire was not doing enough charitable work with his extraordinary wealth, pressure that he has begun to cede to in recent years.
Details are scarce about how exactly this fund will be structured and the exact type of work that it will fund. …