The world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, has announced the first recipients of his pledge for the Earth Fund.
The Earth Fund was launched in February this year to fight against the effects of Climate Change by issuing grants to scientists and other related organizations in a bid to protect and preserve the natural world.
A total of $791 million in grants will be made available to the first sixteen recipients.
The following organizations are expected to receive $100 million each: The Nature Conservancy, Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Defense Fund, World Resources Institute, and the World Wildlife Fund.
According to Bezos, he spent a lot of time researching the works of all the grantees and this round of donations is just the beginning. Some of the recipients will receive funding for specific projects while others will for re-grant to other non-profits based on a report from a spokesperson for the Earth Fund.
Below is a full list of the first 16 beneficiaries.
- The Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund, $43 million grant
- ClimateWorks Foundation, $50 million grant
- Dream Corps Green For All, $10 million grant
- Eden Reforestation Projects, $5 million grant
- Energy Foundation, $30 million grant
- Environmental Defense Fund, $100 million grant
- The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice, $43 million grant
- Natural Resources Defense Council, $100 million grant
- The Nature Conservancy, $100 million grant
- NDN Collective, $12 million grant
- Rocky Mountain Institute, $10 million grant
- Salk Institute for Biological Studies, $30 million grant
- The Solutions Project, $43 million grant
- Union of Concerned Scientists, $15 million grant
- World Resources Institute, $100 million grant
- World Wildlife Fund, $100 million grant