Mining group backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos expands into DR Congo

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : "Our role is to facilitate those private sector investments" in the mining sector, including with American government funding, he said.
40% : The Bezos Earth Fund had pledged to protect the Congo basin, which the UN estimates stores about three years' worth of global greenhouse gas emissions, from "degradation, deforestation and biodiversity loss" with grants of $110mn.

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