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And for the first time, there were rewards as well as punishments: an amnesty for illegal clearances before 2008 and money from a special $1 billion Amazon Fund financed by foreign aid.By any standards, Brazil's Amazon policy has been a triumph, made the more remarkable because it relied on restrictions rather than incentives, which might have been expected to have worked better.

The Brazilian government has set up an Amazon Fund for this money and any future donations.

Large developers, like Amazon, fund both approaches via lobbying and projects like Fire Phone.

Others look to the Norway-sponsored Amazon Fund as a potential model.

Teixeira said: "The US could send a strong signal about its new commitment to climate change by making a significant contribution to the Amazon Fund".

The head of the Amazon Fund at Brazil's national development bank, BNDES, recently acknowledged that Brazil's economy depends on maintaining the forests.

Jeff Bezos and his siblings are directors, and the foundation is largely funded by Amazon stock donated by Bezos' parents.

The Amazon Alexa Fund was created in 2016 to fund new voice technology.

The company will do so with help from $2.5 million in seed funding led by Madrona Venture, along with Techstars and, notably, the Amazon Alexa Fund and Bezos Expeditions, which have a clear vested interest in building better voice assistant experiences.

In February, the company closed a $28 million funding round led by GV, bringing its total capital raised to $67 million from investors like the Amazon Alexa Fund, Spark Capital, Matrix Partners and Lux Capital.

Investors include Amazon Alexa Fund and Major Lazer's Jillionaire.