AI-powered climate solutions: Google-backed fund selects four Indian organisations for AI-powered climate solutions

Four India-based organisations have been selected from 14 other grantees across the Asia Pacific region to receive grants under the APAC Sustainability Seed Fund 2.0, backed by a $5 million grant from Google.org, the tech giant’s philanthropic arm. The fund, managed by the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN), aims to promote technology- and AI-driven solutions that address critical environmental and social issues. social challenges.

The Indian beneficiaries include INREM Foundation, CEPT Research and Development Foundation (CRDF), Institute of Management and Research Finance (WELL Labs) and Gujarat Mahila Housing Sewa Trust (MHT), Google.org said in a statement.

INREM Foundation will develop open AI-based digital solutions to make water pollution data accessible to the community. CRDF plans to use machine learning and satellite imagery to protect lakes and their role as carbon sinks. WELL Labs will develop advanced models to gain insights into village-level water security, while MHT will create an AI-based model to identify urban heat islands and suggest community-focused solutions, the statement added.

This initiative follows Google.org’s previous $3 million grant to the APAC Sustainability Seed Fund 1.0, which supported projects that saved over 13 million tons of water and mitigated 3,700 tons of carbon emissions in India’s agricultural sector.