How Google, Meta, Salesforce and other companies are joining forces to fund climate action

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How Google, Meta, Salesforce and other companies are joining forces to fund climate action

Advance market commitments have accelerated solutions deployment for other global challenges, such as vaccine distribution - Here's how they could speed carbon reduction and removal

In June, Salesforce announced that it had joined Frontier, an advance market commitment (AMC) from over a dozen companies for the purchase of credits for durable carbon removal credits. The announcement...

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