The Vector Sustainability Fund
Vector is supporting projects that remove carbon from the atmosphere and restore nature. We’d like your help in allocating funds.
Vote for your favourite project
Vector is supporting three sustainability projects. Your vote will influence the support each project receives.
Turtle hatchling protection
Protecting threatened or endangered sea turtles
Rainwater harvesting - bunds
Restoring desertified, dry land using techniques including rainwater harvesting
Aperam BioEnergia Biochar
Biochar project in Brazil, removing carbon and benefitting the soil and communities
Vector Projects
Three inspirational projects. Learn more about them, choose your favourite, and support them directly.
Turtle hatchling protection
Six out of seven species of sea turtles are threatened or endangered. This project protects this "keystone species". This project provides grant funding to the organisations working on small budgets. The funds go towards paying local residents to patrol important turtle nesting beaches, protecting turtles that come up to nest and ensuring that the eggs are protected, and guiding the hatchlings to the sea. SEE Turtles grants have already resulted in 10 million hatchlings being saved! They’re aiming to save 1 billion.
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Regreening - Rainwater Harvesting – Water Bunds (Earth Smiles)
Nature-based solutions are now recognised as a key element of tackling climate change. This project restores desertified, dry land using proven techniques including rainwater harvesting (digging bunds, or ‘earth smiles’).
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Aperam BioEnergia Biochar - Brazil
Aperam BioEnergia is a Brazilian player of the forest and renewable energy sector, that runs a ~420.000 ton/year charcoal operation with emissions control in the northeast region of Minas Gerais - Brazil, and holds ~156,000 ha of planted (FSC Certified) and native forest with important biodiversity and economical impact on local communities. Previously, part of the charcoal production that wasn’t being used in Aperam’s industrial process was sold to the market for energy applications, mostly to cement production industries. Now, with the Biochar project, the material is brought back to Aperam BioEnergia forests and applied to the soil, where it not only serves as a durable carbon removal from the atmosphere but also acts as an important natural component for soil characteristics, reconditioning and improvement. This change of baseline is only possible due to the carbon removal revenue.
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