Brazil’s Amazon deforestation remains high despite slight fall

August deforestation was lower than last year, but rates remain much higher than before Bolsonaro took office.

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/10/deforestation-in-brazils-amazon-rainforest-falls-remains-high
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Amazon is reportedly planning to open mini department stores

Amazon is preparing to increase its brick and mortar footprint in a big way. The retailer plans to open several large physical locations in the US akin to department stores, according to anonymous sources cited by The Wall Street Journal. The new stores — the first of which will come to Ohio and California — will sell clothing, household items and electronics from “top consumer brands.” Obviously, shoppers can also expect to run into Amazon’s own-brand products, too.

While the sites are tipped to be around the third of the size of a typical department store at 30,000 square feet, they’ll still be much larger than Amazon’s other physical locations. The move sees the company expanding into an area it originally disrupted as it grew into an all-in-one online shopping destination. 

With their sales already plummeting, the pandemic sealed the fate of several high-profile department stores. The likes of J.C. Penney and Neiman Marcus Group have filed for bankruptcy along with other big names in the sector. Though some were thrown a lifeline when they managed to attract new owners. 

Amazon, on the other hand, has seen its fortunes skyrocket during the pandemic as it profited from an increasing shift toward e-commerce. Its booming business even helping to bankroll founder Jeff Bezos’ trip into space.

Amazon’s move into physical retail predates the virus, however. The company started with brick and mortar bookstores back in 2015, later acquiring Whole Foods for $13.4 billion in 2017. More recently, it opened cashierless Amazon Go stores in the US and UK. Not to mention its highly-curated Amazon 4-star stores and Amazon Pop-Ups inside malls.

The larger stores are apparently viewed as a way of letting shoppers try before they buy, which is particularly useful for things like apparel. That’s an area where Amazon has historically struggled. As the WSJ notes, the only high-fashion label on its online store is Oscar de la Renta. It also lost a major seller in Nike in 2019, which decided to go it alone in e-commerce — a move that has paid off for the sneaker company.

Amazon’s department stores would also allow it to showcase its range of electronics, from its Fire TVs and tablets to Echo speakers to its Ring home security range, and even its Luna cloud gaming service. Notably, big box retailers have shown that emboldened shoppers are returning to stores. Both Walmart and Target recently smashed estimates in their respective second quarters as sales rose across most categories.

Source: https://www.engadget.com/amazon-department-stores-122954800.html?src=rss
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Amazon endorsed legal weed. Will it now fight to make it happen?

When it announced its support for lawmakers’ efforts to decriminalize weed last month, Amazon didn’t just become the biggest company in America to back marijuana legalization, it captivated the cannabis industry in the process.

Now, as bills pushing legalization remain stuck in Congress, activists fighting for liberalized cannabis laws are hoping the e-commerce giant will take the next step and use its considerable D.C. muscle to help get them passed.

Lobbyists for legalization are pinning their hopes on Amazon using its experienced lobbying team and deep pockets to support their efforts, believing it could help them launch ad campaigns and persuade lawmakers opposed to legalization — especially those who represent states where cannabis is legal — to change their minds. Cannabis lobbyists and advocates who have spoken with Amazon made it clear that the company is already engaging in cannabis discussions in Washington, D.C. Whether Amazon actively lobbies or invests monetarily in legislation is the question on everyone’s minds.

“I’m quite disappointed that we’ve really seen no movement whatsoever at the federal level,” said Matthew Schweich, deputy director of the Marijuana Policy Project. “I think that if Amazon were able to lend its political support to federal reform and fund state level efforts, that would be a net positive for the cannabis reform movement in this country.”

One third of Americans currently live in a state where cannabis is or will soon be legally sold for adult use, and 68 percent of voters support federal legalization, according to a Gallup poll conducted last year. But corporate America and Congress have been much slower in coming around to the issue. Many companies and the federal government still drug test employees, even in states where cannabis is legal, and a federal decriminalization bill that passed the House last year stalled in the Senate.

Amazon has one of the more relaxed stances on cannabis among major U.S. employers. It supports legalization and made the decision to stop drug testing employees for cannabis, which will expand the company’s prospective employee pool. Though its online delivery infrastructure is unmatched, advocates say the company has given no indication that it plans to get into the weed business itself if cannabis is legalized nationwide.

“They didn’t tell me anything about wanting to get in sales or anything,” said Maritza Perez, director of the office of national affairs at Drug Policy Alliance, who met with Amazon to discuss the bill in June. “I did express the fact that they’re a big corporation, and that people may think that they’re doing this for other reasons. And they understand that that might be the perception.”

There are some indications, however, that Amazon is interested in trying to convince other companies and Congress to support legalization. A number of advocacy and industry groups, including Drug Policy Alliance, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws and Canopy Growth Inc., have reported meeting with Amazon officials in the past month to discuss federal marijuana policy.

Amazon said last month that its “public policy team will be actively supporting The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act,” otherwise known as the MORE Act, which would decriminalize cannabis and provide for expungement of some non-violent cannabis offenses, had been a long time coming. The company had preliminary conversations about whether to get involved in the national conversation on CBD — a substance contained in the cannabis plant that was federally legalized in 2018 — and marijuana last year, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter, but there were internal disagreements about whether the company should do so and what the optics would be.

The House passed the bill largely along party lines last December, though it was never taken up by the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer debuted his own, more detailed cannabis bill last week. But Amazon declined to say whether it will back it or not.

The reaction of industry groups and advocates to Amazon’s decision to back the MORE Act has been mixed. Most told POLITICO that the money and influence Amazon could bring to the issue could be a big help to a still-underfunded lobbying effort. But there is also some trepidation that Amazon’s involvement indicates it actually plans to enter the industry in some way, and that it could influence federal legislation to be friendlier for big corporations.

“There have been a lot of concerns that they might try to push out the ability of small businesses to be able to succeed in this space, so that’s definitely something that we’re on the lookout for,” said Morgan Fox of the National Cannabis Industry Association.

Legal cannabis sales in the U.S. grew by 50 percent last year, topping $20 billion, according to New Frontier Data. They’re expected to double again over the next four years. The industry has been slow, however, to invest significant dollars in lobbying either nationally or for local legalization efforts.

The largest donor to New Jersey’s successful legalization ballot measure campaign last year, for example, was Scotts Miracle Gro — not a cannabis corporation or group. Lobbyists and advocates say the dollars that Amazon could bring to a national push for federal legalization would help them implement efforts they currently do not have the money for.

Amazon is one of the top lobbying spenders in Washington, shelling out nearly $17.9 million last year. It’s not clear, though, whether Amazon’s lobbyists have yet lobbied Congress to support the MORE Act or any other federal reforms. Amazon’s second-quarter lobbying disclosure report isn’t yet public, and the company declined to comment.

Amazon’s endorsement of the MORE Act didn’t draw big headlines, but it made an impact among those pushing to reform the country’s cannabis laws.

“It’s a big deal for such a large employer, and an employer and a company that nearly every American household interacts with in some way,” to endorse the MORE Act, said Chelsea Parsons, the Center for American Progress’ acting vice president for criminal justice reform. “It helps shift the culture around this issue.”

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Study: Sections of the Amazon Rainforest emit more CO2 than they absorb

Segments of the Amazon rainforest now emit more carbon dioxide than they can absorb because of human-caused disturbances, according to a study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday.

Why it matters: The Amazon region hosts the world’s largest tropical rainforests and stores vast quantities of CO2, the primary long-lived greenhouse gas. Accelerating rates of deforestation and climate shifts due to human-caused global warming have damaged the region’s effectiveness as a climate change buffer.

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The big picture: The researchers performed approximately 600 flyovers above the Amazon region between 2010 and 2018 to measure concentrations of CO2 and carbon monoxide at four sites.

• The aerial measurements revealed that total carbon emissions in eastern portions of Amazonia, which have been subjected to more deforestation and warming, were greater than those in the west.
• Specific regions in southeastern Amazonia experienced the strongest trends and switched from being carbon sinks to emitting more carbon than they could absorb during the study period.
• This marks a tipping point that scientists have foreshadowed in recent years.

How it works: Forests act as carbon sinks by capturing the gas through photosynthesis and storing it in biomass — plants and animals — dead, organic matter and soils.

• When the storage sources are destroyed in fires, most of which are intentionally set to clear land for agricultural purposes, as well as via dry conditions, the forest’s overall ability to sequester greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere is damaged.
• The region’s water cycle also changes, potentially leading the rainforest to transition to a savannah.

What they’re saying: Scott Denning, a professor at Colorado State University, wrote in an accompanying but unaffiliated article in Nature that the researchers “have documented the accelerating transition of forests from carbon sinks to sources.”

• “The overall pattern of deforestation, warmer and drier dry seasons, drought stress, fire and carbon release in eastern Amazonia seriously threatens the Amazon carbon sink,” Denning added.
• “Indeed, the results cast doubt on the ability of tropical forests to sequester large amounts of fossil-fuel-derived CO2 in the future.”

Our thought bubble, via Axios’ Andrew Freedman: As deforestation in the Amazon has increased in recent years and climate change has altered rainfall and temperature patterns, there’s been increasing concern in the scientific and environmental communities that the Amazon could go from a net absorber of carbon dioxide to a source.

• This would make it even harder for the world to limit climate change to the goals set out in the Paris climate agreement.
• This study shows that for at least a portion of the Amazon, that tipping point from sink to source has been crossed.

Go deeper: Earth’s carbon dioxide levels hit 4.5 million-year high

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As Bezos called for tax hikes, Amazon lobbied to keep its tax bill low

As Amazon publicly embraced President Joe Biden’s plan to raise the corporate tax rate across the board, it has also lobbied Congress to preserve a prized tax break that’s helped it lower its corporate tax bill.

The retail giant’s founder Jeff Bezos earned plaudits earlier this year when he announced that Amazon would back “a rise in the corporate tax rate” to help pay for Biden’s infrastructure package. His comments broke with most of the rest of corporate America — the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable vehemently opposed such tax hikes — and served as a rejoinder to critics who have attacked Amazon for paying little to no federal income taxes. Biden himself criticized Amazon’s tax rate as too low on the campaign trail.

Behind the scenes, however, Amazon and other companies have been making moves to help keep their taxes from rising. And their efforts illustrate some of the unseen hurdles the Biden administration faces in its efforts to bring in more revenue from corporate taxation as it calls for raising the overall corporate tax rate to fund its ambitious domestic agenda.

The company hired the tax lobbyist Joshua Odintz, a former Democratic congressional aide and veteran of the Obama administration, last month to lobby on the section of the tax code dealing with the research and development tax deduction, according to a disclosure filing.

And the R&D Coalition — an alliance of companies that benefit from the deduction including Amazon, Intel, the National Association of Manufacturers and others — hired a squad of veteran tax lobbyists at PricewaterhouseCoopers earlier this year. Those hired included a former top aide to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

The R&D deduction and the related R&D tax credit are designed to incentivize companies to shell out on research and development by providing tax breaks for spending on research. The credit was first established in 1981, according to the Tax Foundation, and has broad bipartisan support. Its use by Amazon and others underscores how calls for corporations to pay more in taxes may be simpler in theory than practice, since many of the tax breaks that companies utilize are popular even if the companies’ low tax footprint is not.

It’s tough to know exactly how much the R&D tax credit — which is broadly popular in both parties — has saved Amazon. But Amazon disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing earlier this year that the tax credits that helped it reduce its U.S. tax burden “were primarily related to the U.S. federal research and development credit.” (The credit is not the only way Amazon reduces its tax bill: It also benefits from tax rules allowing it to deduct the cost of the stock it gives its employees as part of their pay packages, among other tax breaks.)

“It’s very likely they’re getting hundreds of millions of dollars a year in R&D tax credits,” said Matthew Gardner, a senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, who’s studied the tax habits of Amazon and other big companies.

Amazon declined to comment.

The tax breaks themselves aren’t at risk, but the deduction could become less valuable next year if Congress doesn’t act, which may explain why Amazon chose to ramp up its lobbying campaign around it.

Republicans’ 2017 tax law included a provision that would prevent companies from immediately deducting the full amount of research and development expenses starting next year. Instead, they’d have to deduct a portion of it every year over five years, reducing its value.

The change was included as a way to pay for the legislation, and experts believe it was never meant to become permanent.

“This was sort of a time bomb that was always meant to be diffused,” said Ben Ritz, the director of the Progressive Policy Institute’s Center for Funding America’s Future.

But there’s no guarantee the bomb won’t go off in six months, hence the lobbying effort.

Amazon is far from the only company fighting to save the tax break. A broad coalition of trade groups and companies are lobbying Congress to scrap the changes set to take effect next year. Sixty lawmakers have signed onto a House bill to do so while a dozen senators are backing a companion bill in the upper chamber.

The Tax Foundation estimates repealing the changes would cost about $131 billion over a decade. It also estimated that it would boost GDP by 0.1 percent and create nearly 20,000 jobs.

The Biden administration hasn’t taken a position on the issue. Asked about it during a Senate Finance Committee hearing last month, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that “promoting innovation is a critical priority for President Biden” and that “continuing to allow firms to expense R&D rather than shifting to amortizing could be one very effective way to bring that about.”

Businesses have argued that the changes would penalize them for investing in research and development. “While other governments work to substantially increase R&D investment, this change will significantly increase the cost to perform R&D in the U.S.,” George Davis, Intel’s chief financial officer, told the Senate Finance Committee earlier this year.

Catherine Schultz, Business Roundtable’s vice president for tax and fiscal policy, said she didn’t know of any companies that weren’t lobbying on the issue. The coalition is seeking to tuck the provision into one of Biden’s infrastructure packages or another major bill before the end of the year. While repealing the changes has “very strong support among both House and Senate members,” she said, it’s not certain the companies will get their way.

“I think it’s just a matter of timing and how focused people are on this,” she said.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/08/bezos-tax-amazon-498722
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Amazon’s Prime Day is back — with Target, Walmart and Kohl’s snapping at its heels

Target, Walmart and Kohl’s have an advantage that Amazon can’t rival — stores.

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Nuclear energy: Fusion plant backed by Jeff Bezos to be built in UK

Canadian company General Fusion is set to build a $400m fusion demonstrator near Oxford.

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Amazon-dwellers lived sustainably for 5,000 years

Indigenous people lived sustainably in the tropical Amazon rainforest for more than 5,000 years, a study shows.

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What Is Amazon Sidewalk, and Should You Disable It?

On June 8, 2021, most Amazon smart home devices—as well as certain other connected gadgets—will become part of a nationwide network called Sidewalk. Here’s what you need to know, and how to opt out if you choose to.

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No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to subscribe: Amazon buys MGM for $8.5 billion

Amazon said Wednesday that it has struck a deal to acquire movie studio MGM for $8.5 billion, bolstering its efforts to become a top player in Hollywood.

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Amazon closing Connecticut site after another noose found

Amazon announced on Thursday that it was shutting down a construction site in Windsor, Conn., after a seventh noose was discovered.The most recent incident on Wednesday comes almost a month af…

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The Majority of Amazon’s Bessemer Workers Cast Ballots, Results of the Union Election Are on Their Way

Breaking from Alabama: We are this much closer to learning the results of the historic union election at Amazon’s Bessemer, AL warehouse. The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) reports that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has received 3,125 ballots. This means that a majority of about…

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Amazon buying dead malls to turn into fulfilment centers

Amazon is buying up empty shopping malls and transforming them into fulfilmnet centers, reports ABC News.

In March, Amazon won approval to turn a mall in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, into a 3.4 million-square-foot distribution building, and a mall in Knoxville, Tennessee, into a 220,000-square-foot distribution center.

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Amazon Is Getting Sued for Failing to Give Warehouse Workers Meal and Rest Breaks

It’s well documented that some Amazon employees work in grueling, physically taxing, and unsafe conditions. In fact, a former Amazon warehouse employee in California has sued the company for not allowing its workers to take their full mandated meal or rest breaks, even though it discounts time for the former in their…

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Dr. Seuss books shoot to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list

Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the business running the late author’s estate, said it made the decision last year to cease publication and licensing of six of his books.

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Amazon sued by New York over ‘flagrant disregard’ for COVID-19 safety

New York has filed a lawsuit against Amazon, saying it showed a “flagrant disregard” for COVID-19 safety rules and retaliated against employees who complained, the New York Times has reported. Attorney general Letitia James said that Amazon…

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Nearly 4,000 Amazon staff got incorrect Covid test results over the weekend

Nearly 4,000 Amazon employees across the UK were told over the weekend they had tested positive for Covid-19 and were ordered to go home and self-isolate. It wasn’t until later, within 24 hours, that they were notified that their result was a mistake – their test results were negative and they were actually Covid-free. — Read the rest

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Amazon Is Creating an Empire of Trash

Amazon has been making a mint during the pandemic. That business has resulted in multi-billion dollar pay days for the company’s soon-to-be former CEO, and millions of the company’s iconic cardboard boxes being left on doorsteps, and in lobbies and mailboxes every day. And when those piles of boxes climb higher, the…

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Amazon’s new headquarters look like sh*t

The design for Amazon’s new $2.5 billion poop-emoji headquarters in Arlington, Virginia has been submitted to officials. I hope it gets approved just so someone can attach googly eyes to it.

From CNN:

The site’s focal point will be The Helix, a tree-covered glass structure where a series of “alternative work environments” will be set amid indoor gardens and greenery from the nearby area, tended to by a team of horticulturalists.

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Amazon Buys Planes From Airlines Struggling With Pandemic Slowdown

Amazon has purchased 11 passenger planes from Delta and WestJet that will be converted into cargo jets, according to a press release from the Seattle-based online retailer. It’s the first time Amazon has purchased planes outright rather than just lease them and comes as the airline industry struggles from a slowdown…

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