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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
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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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The Gates Foundation AI to Accelerate Charitable Giving Grand Challenge seeks innovative AI solutions that transform philanthropic giving. The RFP addresses the question: How might AI support donors to give more and give sooner? Projects must address one of three challenge areas: (1) Donor Discovery & Connection — helping donors identify aligned causes through recommendation engines, personalized learning tools, and impact visualization; (2) Convert Intent to Action — reducing barriers preventing motivated donors from completing donations through streamlined giving processes and community-building systems; (3) Foundational Infrastructure — building underlying data systems and standards for philanthropic AI including data pipelines, nonprofit interoperability with AI agents, and fraud detection. Solutions benefiting global health and development in low- and middle-income countries receive priority consideration. Grantees must participate in up to three learning convenings with peer organizations. Applications are submitted through the Gates Foundation portal at submit.gatesfoundation.org.
Grand Challenges: Global Health Priority Areas is a grant initiative from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that fosters innovation to address key global health and development priorities. The program funds breakthrough ideas from researchers and organizations worldwide working on challenges in global health, agriculture, and development. Awards typically range from $100,000 to $1,000,000. Eligible applicants include universities, nonprofits, and for-profit organizations globally. The Grand Challenges family of initiatives is part of a broader partnership network, and grant opportunities are available through both the Gates Foundation and the grandchallenges.org partner network.