Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos on Thursday pledged to make the largest U.S. e-commerce company net carbon neutral by 2040 and to buy 100,000 electric delivery vans from a start-up, as employees and consumers around the world plan protests to address climate change.
The streets of Melbourne, Australia were packed on Friday. Perhaps 1.6 million people downed tools and textbooks in Germany, according to early estimates. All in, almost 5,000 strikes and marches in 139 countries had been planned to call for more action to combat global warming, the 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg tweeted on Thursday.
European Union standards to define green investments are likely to face delays, because many of the bloc's governments want more time to assess them, EU officials said, a move that may undercut climate targets and limit sales of green assets.
France has convinced Germany to look into a European carbon border tax to protect companies investing in green technology from emission-intensive competition from abroad, a move that could heighten trade tensions with the United States.
Nigeria's frenetic commercial capital, Lagos, is plunged into darkness several times a day. Then its generators roar, and the lights flood back on.
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