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AI for Climate & Nature Grand Challenge is sponsored by Bezos Earth Fund. The Bezos Earth Fund's multi-year $100 million AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge aims to accelerate climate and nature solutions by funding innovative approaches that leverage modern AI to deliver greater speed, scale, accuracy, and precision.
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AI for Climate and Nature | Bezos Earth Fund AI for Climate and Nature AI is central to our work at the Bezos Earth Fund. Across our programs, we’re harnessing its power to transform how the world addresses climate and nature, uniting diverse expertise to unlock breakthrough solutions that safeguard our planet for future generations. AI for Climate and Nature TED x Bezos Earth Fund event during New York Climate Week.
Leveraging AI to Address Climate Change and Protect Nature Climate change and threats to nature are among the world’s biggest problems, and we want to find solutions that take advantage of one of the world’s biggest opportunities: artificial intelligence. AI is already helping people monitor greenhouse gas emissions, detect forest fires, and advance renewable energy. But it’s time to do more, faster.
AI, when used responsibly, can supercharge efforts to design and deploy solutions to help protect our planet and our future. At the Earth Fund, we’re focused on where AI is headed — toward powerful, specialized tools that can drive real impact across food, energy, biodiversity, and nature. One way we do this is by identifying experts who are already solving hard problems, and helping them scale with AI.
We’re the bridge, connecting frontier AI companies and tools to people on the ground tackling climate and nature challenges every day. The Earth Fund has supported the development of multiple publications that analyze the current connections existing between both AI and climate, and AI and nature, including where there are opportunities to scale impact. Learn more about our publications.
In April 2024, we announced a multi-year $100 million AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge to accelerate climate and nature solutions by funding innovative approaches that leverage modern AI to deliver greater speed, scale, accuracy, and precision. We also support initiatives like the Land and Carbon Lab , which creates cutting-edge open data on nature, and uses AI to make it more accessible and actionable than ever before.
The promise of AI lies not just in its algorithms, but in how we choose to use it. By aligning technological innovation with the urgent needs of climate and nature, we can unlock solutions that safeguard communities, restore ecosystems, and accelerate the journey toward a nature-positive future.
The Bezos Earth Fund is committed to making sure AI serves as a force for good—ensuring that innovation helps us protect the planet we all depend on.
Weather AI: African Climate Forecaster Carbon Sim: CO₂ Removal Accelerator Microbe AI: Better Cattle Gut Design Livestock GPT: Smart Cattle Emission Reduction Peace Keeper: Wildlife-Human Harmony AI Tree Guard: AI Protects Precious Timber AI and Edge Monitoring to Combat Illegal Fishing Coral Watch: AI Reef Protection Network Empowering the Conserva Aves Network to Protect Nature with AI-Powered Bird Monitoring AI-powered Global Biodiversity Monitoring Network Fast-Tracking Production of Genomes for Endangered Species Sound Sense: Global Wildlife Listening Network AI: Plant and New Species Identification Deep Sea Vision: AI Maps Ocean Life Synthetic Cell: AI-Powered Protein Factory Cell Meat AI: Lab Grown Protein Cell Sight: Fast-Track to Better Lab Meat Fungal Protein: Fighting Global Hunger Waste Protein: AI Transforms Food Scraps Plant Mix: AI-Driven Food Systems Designer Protein Solver: AI Models Better Food AI Taste Predictor: Better Plant-Based Foods AI Food Atlas: Unlocking Plant Protein Chemistry How to Make AI a Force for Good in Climate AI Can Be a Climate Ally – If We Build It That Way Bezos Earth Fund Announces 24 Phase I Grants Under AI Grand Challenge for Climate and Nature Bezos Earth Fund $100M AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge now Open Stay informed on this Initiative
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Identifies experts who are already solving hard problems related to climate and nature, and helps them scale with AI. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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The AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge, launched by the Bezos Earth Fund with up to $100 million in total funding, uses a two-phase award process to accelerate AI-driven solutions for the world's most pressing environmental challenges. In Phase I, 24 organizations across four categories—sustainable proteins, biodiversity conservation, power grid optimization, and wildcard solutions—each received $50,000 seed grants and participated in Innovation Sprints with private-sector mentors. In Phase II, up to 15 of the most promising initiatives will receive $2 million implementation grants over two years. Phase I recipients include Cornell University, The Nature Conservancy, Smithsonian Institution, Yale University, National Audubon Society, and others spanning 501(c)(3) organizations and global academic institutions. The program targets transformative applications of AI across food systems, biodiversity monitoring, energy grid decarbonization, and novel environmental solutions through 2027.
Bezos Earth Fund AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge is sponsored by Bezos Earth Fund. The AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge, launched by the Bezos Earth Fund with up to $100 million in total funding, uses a two-phase award process to accelerate AI-driven solutions for the world's most pressing environmental challenges.
EPA is seeking insightful, expert, and cost-effective applications from eligible applicants to provide the Chesapeake Bay Program’s non-federal partners with technical analysis and programmatic evaluation support related to water quality modeling and monitoring and spatial systems to manage, analyze, and map environmental data. The project assists the partners in meeting their restoration and protection goals and in increasing the transfer of scientific understanding to the Chesapeake Bay Program modeling, monitoring, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) activities. The recipient will support modeling, monitoring, and GIS programs needed to explain and communicate the health of and changes in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. Funding Opportunity Number: EPA-R3-CBP-23-18. Assistance Listing: 66.466. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: ENV. Award Amount: Up to $5.3M per award.
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I is sponsored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA SBIR Phase I Solicitation invites small businesses to submit proposals for projects addressing critical environmental challenges. Awards are for six months to demonstrate proof of concept. Key focus areas include Clean and Safe Water, Air Quality and Climate, Homeland Security, Circular Economy/Sustainable Materials, and Safer Chemicals.
Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program (CCGP) is sponsored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Community Change Grants Program funds projects that provide meaningful improvements to the environmental, climate, and resilience conditions affecting disadvantaged communities. While broadly focused on environmental and climate justice, projects can include aspects that relate to community health and well-being through addressing environmental health risks. The program aims to fund community-driven pollution and climate resiliency solutions and strengthen communities' decision-making power. Applications are accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis.