Funding structuring projects promoting biodiversity and nature in the city

The Biodiversity Fund was established on April 14, 2023. It is endowed with 80 million euros by 2030.

The Biodiversity Fund demonstrates the willingness of the Métropole du Grand Paris to support structuring projects promoting biodiversity and nature in the city and falling within the metropolitan ecological framework . It constitutes one of the 13 priority measures identified in the Metropolitan Biodiversity Plan.

This Fund aims to finance investment expenses (land acquisitions, project management studies and works) necessary for the realization of structuring projects, particularly in terms of tree planting, resolution of ecological breaks, de-impermeabilization and renaturation of spaces, etc.

Grant applications will be analyzed in light of the following 5 axes, detailed in the regulations:

• The dimensions of the project: A metropolitan scope
• The location of the project: A place of ecological connection and adaptation to climate change
• The consistency of the project with metropolitan strategic documents: Territorial balance
• The ecological ambition of the project: Ecological and environmental performance
• The economics of the project: Economic consistency

Grant application files must be sent as and when...