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Last September, Amazon announced a series of initiatives and issued a call for companies to reduce their carbon emissions 10 years ahead of the goals set forth in the Paris Agreement.
This was done as part of a sweeping effort to reduce its own environmental footprint.
The company has clearly been busy, because yesterday it announced that it would be adding 26 new “utility-scale” wind and solar projects around the world, including in South Africa, bringing the total number of these projects to 127.
The inclusion of South Africa in these plans has come soon after its giant cloud computing subsidiary, Amazon Web Services (AWS), opened a data centre ‘region’ in Cape Town, says Moneyweb.
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