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Biodiversity Fund | Volkswagen Group The Volkswagen Group Biodiversity Fund is a long-term investment in the future. The aim of the fund is to contribute worldwide to the protection, restoration and promotion of biodiversity and thereby address biodiversity loss as one of the key environmental challenges of our time.
As an integral part of the Volkswagen Group’s regenerate+ strategy, the Biodiversity Fund finances selected projects for the protection and restoration of biodiversity. The Biodiversity Fund focuses on five strategic areas of action: Strengthening ecosystems: Supporting selected projects that help strengthen biodiversity and ecosystems.
Contributing to environmental and biodiversity objectives : Supporting projects that align with the Group-wide environmental and biodiversity priorities as well as external reference frameworks. Making engagement for nature visible: Collaboration with experienced partners from nature conservation, science and civil society.
Promoting forward-looking solutions: Supporting nature-based approaches, such as projects for wetland restoration, habitat protection or the involvement of local communities in conservation projects. Strengthening resilience: Supporting projects related to natural livelihoods, ecosystem services and resilient value systems.
Projects funded by the Volkswagen Group Biodiversity Fund should demonstrate a connection to international biodiversity targets and recognized conservation approaches. This places the funded activities within a broader global context and allows them to be assessed against the Fund’s funding and selection criteria.
“Protecting biodiversity is a key prerequisite for resilient ecosystems, stable livelihoods and future-proof economic activity. As a global industrial company, we take responsibility and specifically support projects that are based on scientific or recognized conservation approaches.
” Chief Sustainability Officer, Volkswagen Group Guidelines for Project Funding Reference Frameworks and Global Goals Where appropriate , projects are encouraged to describe their alignment with relevant international biodiversity targets and frameworks, such as the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Planetary Boundaries framework or the IUCN conservation standards.
Such alignment may, for example, be demonstrated through contributions to ecosystem integrity, restoration targets or the use of natural resources within defined ecological criteria at landscape or marine level. Funded projects are supported throughout their entire duration by both the Volkswagen Group and ERM.
This is based on an impact-oriented monitoring approach aligned with the Fund’s Theory of Change model, which examines and documents the extent to which project activities contribute to measurable outcomes for nature and biodiversity. Defined indicators are collected regularly throughout the project and funding period in order to systematically track progress and transparently assess impacts.
In addition, an annual impact report is prepared and published, presenting the Fund’s contributions to the intended objectives and long-term impacts. This increases transparency regarding achieved outcomes, supports the improvement of measures and provides insights for future funding decisions.
In this way, evidence-based knowledge on appropriate measures for the protection and restoration of biodiversity is generated alongside the financing of projects. The Biodiversity Fund supports projects related to the protection, restoration or use of ecosystems within defined ecological criteria.
Particular attention is given to projects that: address a measurable ecological contribution based on defined criteria, are designed for the long term or are scalable, actively involve local stakeholders and communities, and are based on recognized scientific or conservation approaches. A limited number of projects is selected per funding cycle. Funding cycles are planned annually.
Currently, selected projects may receive funding through 2029. The selection of funded projects follows a structured five-stage process that ensures transparency and robustness, takes biodiversity relevance into account and enables sound, traceable and quality-assured decision-making. Organizations are invited to submit project proposals through the Fund’s calls for proposals.
All applications are initially reviewed to ensure strategic alignment with the Fund’s objectives as well as compliance with defined funding criteria, governance requirements and social and environmental safeguard standards.
Eligible projects are then assessed against transparent pre-selection criteria, including their potential contribution to biodiversity, their strategic relevance to the Fund’s biodiversity objectives , their feasibility, risk profile and the capabilities of the implementing organization. Selected projects undergo an in-depth technical and ecological review. l.
- r. : Tobias Bahr, Marcin Piersiak, Frauke Fischer, Guido Eickenroth, Ina Othersen, Dirk Voeste Final funding decisions are made by the responsible decision-making body, supported by the Volkswagen Group Sustainability Council. Selected projects are formalized through cooperation agreements and monitored throughout the funding period to ensure impact achievement and accountability.
The specified fuel consumption and emission data does not refer to a single vehicle and is not part of the offer but is only intended for comparison between different types of vehicles.
Additional equipment and accessories (additional components, tyre formats, etc.) can alter relevant vehicle parameters such as weight, rolling resistance and aerodynamics, affecting the vehicle's fuel consumption, power consumption, CO₂ emissions and driving performance values in addition to weather and traffic conditions and individual driving behavior.
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Community Grants (Northwest Horticultural Society) is sponsored by Northwest Horticultural Society (NHS). The NHS provides grants to community-focused organizations in the Pacific Northwest that align with its mission to educate and enhance the practice and appreciation of horticulture. Projects may focus on natural lands, gardens, community vegetable gardens, or other horticultural spaces and/or activities. They also fund projects that implement environmental cleanup and/or restoration in publicly accessible spaces, enhancing horticultural beauty and biodiversity, and serving historically marginalized communities through horticulture experiences and projects.
The Climate Change AI Innovation Grants program supports projects that address research and deployment challenges in climate change mitigation, adaptation, and climate science by leveraging AI and machine learning, while also creating publicly available datasets and tools to catalyze further work. The program enables key partnerships that accelerate the research-to-deployment cycle, creating synergies between academic researchers, nonprofits, startups and other companies, and governmental or intergovernmental organizations. Funded by the Quadrature Climate Foundation, Schmidt Futures, and Google DeepMind, with Future Earth serving as fiscal sponsor, this is one of the few dedicated grant programs specifically targeting the intersection of AI/ML and climate change. Projects typically involve climate modeling, weather prediction, emissions monitoring, energy optimization, biodiversity monitoring, and other environmental applications of machine learning. The 2026 competition opens with a full proposal deadline of September 15, 2026. The program has grown steadily since its inception, funding 23 projects to date across diverse climate domains and geographies.