Biodiversity

Germany

In 2024, Amazon provided €1 million in support of the KARUNA social cooperative’s Tiny Forests project, which aims to enhance Berlin's climate resilience through urban forest creation. The project seeks to plant 20 “tiny forests” (each the size of a tennis court) consisting of native plants that can absorb rainwater and reduce the risks of flooding, heat waves, and water scarcity while also providing educational opportunities and enhancing biodiversity.

Since 2023, Amazon donated €2 million to a consortium of partners headed by North Sea Farmers to fund the world's first commercial-scale seaweed farm located between offshore wind turbines. Seaweed has the potential to help address climate change by absorbing CO₂ as it grows, and could enhance biodiversity. The project, North Sea Farm 1, is located in a wind farm off the coast of the Netherlands and is designed to test and improve methods of seaweed farming while researching the potential of seaweed to sequester carbon.

United Kingdom

In October 2022, we committed £2.8 million to two UK programs: The Woodland Trust's Emergency Tree Fund and the Rewild London Fund led by the Mayor of London. Both initiatives aim to enhance biodiversity and improve access to nature through tree-planting, while creating jobs and volunteering opportunities. Together, the programs are planting over 450,000 trees and supporting 22 critical London rewilding projects, including reintroducing beavers back to London for the first time in 400 years.

Ireland

Since 2023, Amazon donated nearly €3 million in funding to The Nature Trust. The Nature Trust is using the donation to rehabilitate 500 hectares of degraded Atlantic blanket bog in the west of Ireland and create Ireland’s first Peatland Standard. The aim of the work is to restore a functioning peatland habitat by creating the conditions for bog-forming mosses to grow. The Irish government's Climate Action Plan recignizes that restoring peatlands will deliver a range of climate benefits through reduced carbon emissions, long-term carbon storage, and enhanced resilience to the impacts of climate change. The new Peatland Standard will help farmers and other landowners prove the benefits of peatland restoration projects, including emission reductions, biodiversity, and water benefits.

France

In 2022, Amazon committed €3 million of funding over a three-year period to the Fonds Nature 2050, created by CDC Biodiversité. The funding will support the preservation, restoration, and management of an estimated 600,000 square meters of habitat. The Fonds Nature 2050 is devoted to preserving and restoring biodiversity while mitigating the consequences of climate change, as well as improving ecosystems and territorial resilience.

Italy

In 2021, we committed €2 million to support Parco Italia, an urban forestry program that aims to plant 22 million trees across 14 metropolitan areas in Italy. This translates to one tree planted per city resident. Amazon's support for this project will help cities become more resilient to climate change by increasing urban biodiversity, improving air quality, and promoting urban cooling.

Belgium

In 2024, we announced its first Right Now Climate Fund project in Belgium, providing €1.1 million funding for the establishment of the newest Belgian National Park, Brabantse Wouden. Brabantse Wouden is recognized by UNESCO for its ancient woodlands that have been unchanged since the Ice Age. This funding supports initiatives that enhance the climate resilience and biodiversity of the National Park's woodland as well as encouraging more of the local community to benefit from the Park's nature.

United States

In 2020, Amazon committed $10 million to support two programs in the U.S. in collaboration with the Nature Conservancy. The programs help family forest owners sequester carbon across the Appalachian region of the Eastern U.S., which has been identified as disproportionately important for conserving biodiversity and mitigating climate change. Amazon's grant supports efforts to expand the programs to new regions, develop a scientific approach to measuring regional carbon impact, and enhance carbon verification methodologies for these projects.