AVPN – a network that brings together philanthropic and impact investors from across Asia and beyond – has announced funding for eighteen organisations as part of a $5 million climate solutions initiative. 

The eighteen nonprofits will scale new technologies earmarked to help tackle the unfolding global climate emergency.  

Funded by the APAC Sustainability Seed Fund 2.0, supported by tech giant Google and the Asian Development Bank, grantees hailing from the Asia Pacific region in countries such as Japan, South Korea and Singapore will aim to address renewable energy solutions, decarbonisation, climate adaptation and water perseveration.  

AVPN says recipients will be putting artificial intelligence and cloud computing to use in their climate solutions.   

The Asia Pacific region is home to some of the most vulnerable populations experiencing rapid social and geological changes caused by the climate crisis.  

AVPN CEO Naina Subberwal Batra says resources will help ‘support and unlock the potential of their innovations to help the region adapt and respond to climate impacts. Done right, this not only drives the development of transformative solutions, but ensures their expansion and adoption in the regions that need them the most.’ 

In August, Rose Ng’ang’a, a communications and media specialist on impactful messaging, told Alliance that ‘innovative partnerships between philanthropy and technology are reshaping the narrative, offering new hope for sustainable development and resilience.’ 

She firm belieber that innovation and technology offer the best way out of the climate change crisis.  

‘With every technological advance comes an opportunity for philanthropies to upscale funding for projects and programmes aimed at combating climate change in developing countries,’ she adds.