IBM Sustainability
Accelerator
Our initiative
Supporting environmentally at-risk communities across the world
Our differentiators
Our participants:
What IBM provides
Stories of impact
Frequently asked questions
- IBM believes that the power of science, technology, and innovation can help tackle environmental issues while helping communities address societal needs.
- According to the World Bank, climate-related disasters and natural hazards push 26 million people into poverty each year, putting these populations in need of access to technical, financial, and institutional resources to be more resilient in responding to climate change.
- By uniting experts and technology, IBM wanted to find a way to scale and speed up solutions for helping underrepresented communities most vulnerable to environmental threats.
At IBM, we believe that technology has the potential to transform lives when directed with purpose. That's why we’ve designed this program to have a bigger, long-term sustainable societal impact with the power of science and technologies such as hybrid cloud and AI. - The IBM Sustainability Accelerator has ten active engagements, each with a different organization, divided into two cohorts: one focused on sustainable agriculture and one focused on clean energy. A third cohort focused on management of water and sanitation will kick off in late 2023.
- IBM will select about five organizations each year – forming a cohort – to focus efforts on addressing a specific sustainability issue area. The selection process includes RFPs that will be public and open to proposals from any nonprofit or government organization (which are then reviewed through standard IBM Trust and Compliance processes). The organizations in the first IBM Sustainability Accelerator cohort were selected based on proposals solicited through an invitation-only pilot RFP that was shared with organizations already in IBM’s network and/or that of our partners.
- Throughout the experience, IBM provides organizations with credits for IBM Cloud and IBM Environmental Intelligence Suite Data APIs as well as technical mentorship to advance the initiative of focus within the Accelerator.
- The IBM Sustainability Accelerator is open to organizations globally. Submissions are welcome from nonprofit and government organizations.
- IBM plans to select five organizations for this program each year.
If you have additional questions, please contact sustainability.accelerator@ibm.com.
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IBM is committed to environmental leadership in all of its business activities, from its operations, to the design of its products, to the use of its technology.