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[New] Healthcare providers and officials fear that medical facilities already struggling with the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 will face further stress caring for people affected by fires, potentially collapsing the health system in parts of the Amazon region.
[New] The larger increase in detected Amazon deforestation events in the first half of the year indicates that in 2020 will also be a devastating fire season in Brazil too.
As unemployment surges in the United States, Facebook has pledged US$ 100 million in grants to small businesses, while Amazon has said it will hire 100,000 people.
Alerts of deforestation in the Amazon region are also a third higher than last year, which increases the risk of fires due to dried-out vegetation.
When implemented, indigenous property rights reduce deforestation inside indigenous territories in the Amazon rainforest, and could provide an important positive externality for Brazil and the rest of the world in terms of climate change mitigation.
Mercedes on Friday joined The Climate Pledge, started by Amazon last year, which calls on signatories to be net zero carbon across their businesses by 2040.
Amazon plans to get to net-zero emissions by 2040, Microsoft vowed to go carbon negative by 2030, and Lyft plans to have an entirely electric fleet of vehicles by 2030.
Facebook's new Shops platform has the potential to pose a real threat to Amazon in the coming years.
The five largest US technology firms, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft will be well placed to expand into the Gulf should the regulatory framework become more favourable.
While online beauty will inevitably continue its boom - Amazon remains Europe's most popular platform - the trend towards physical beauty stores will continue to gain importance, taking some spotlight away from e-commerce in 2020.
Amazon is delivering two-thirds of its own packages, and with e-commerce sales so strong due to the coronavirus pandemic, it could hit 80% as early as next year.
Most other tech firms have given employees until the end of the year with the likes of Amazon and Apple not expecting most staff back in until January.
Other U.S. companies that might make a retaliatory short list include Amazon Web Services, which has a cloud services joint venture in China; Apple, which has huge markets and supply chains in China; and Microsoft, which has major markets, research and development, and supply chains in China.
If current rates of deforestation continue, ecosystem connectivity between the Andes and the Amazon forests will be lost by 2030.
Deforestation of the Amazon has continued at record levels this year, leading observers to warn that the rainforest is disappearing faster than ever before.
27% of the Amazon will be without trees by 2030 if the current rate of deforestation continues.
Tech giants including Google and Amazon will unwittingly direct some $25 million to websites spreading Covid-19 misinformation in 2020 through their digital advertising platforms..
Amazon Web Services will keep growing significantly as the public cloud market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 20% + over the coming five years.
A new platform led by Imperial College London and enabled by Amazon Web Services (AWS) will pool global data on COVID-19 from over half a million sources in response to the infodemic.
To help meet a goal to make 50% of all shipments carbon neutral by 2030, Amazon plans to put 10,000 new vehicles on the road as early as 2022, and 100,000 vehicles on the road by 2030.
The top 10 ecommerce companies have about 60% of the share of online sales this year: The fastest growing company is Amazon with a forecasted share of 38% in 2020 (about $47 billion).
The goal of Amazon and other companies who have signed The Climate Pledge is to be net zero by 2040, a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement target.

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Last updated: 13 September 2020