Amazon on Thursday announced the first companies to receive money from a $2 billion venture capital fund it formed to help combat climate change. Other investments in carbon removal projects and companies are piling up as well. - This week the e-commerce company Shopify announced investments in CarbonCure, Pachama, the direct air capture firm Carbon Engineering and others in the "carbon removal" space. - In May the payment tech company Stripe announced its first four carbon removal purchases, while this summer Microsoft issued a request for proposals for carbon removal projects to finance.

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