Wilkes Climate Launch Prize 2025 (up to $250,000)

Deadline: February 28, 2025

Applications are open for the Wilkes Climate Launch Prize 2025. The Wilkes Climate Launch Prize highlights prime international concepts for combating local weather change. Each 12 months, by elevating and honoring revolutionary local weather options, this University of Utah prize goals to speed up worldwide progress and encourage technological advances. Their aim is to develop efficient local weather change options shortly for the good thing about folks and ecosystems worldwide.

Prize

• There is just one grand prize of $250,000 to be awarded.

Eligibility

• Organizations in any respect phases, each for-profits and nonprofits are eligible to submit concepts to be thought of for the Wilkes Climate Launch Prize. This consists of seed, pre-seed, venture-funded, publicly traded stage firms, or nonprofits.
• They may be based mostly wherever on the earth.

Evaluation Criteria

• Scalable impression:
  • How a lot greenhouse gases (MT CO2-equivalent) may very well be averted from emissions or faraway from the ambiance per 12 months within the instant future (e.g. 2025-2027) and near-term future (e.g. round 2030)?
  • What are the potentials for scaling up over the 2030-2050 timescale?
  • How will the Prize lead to a transformative change on this sector?
  • What is the estimated permanence of those emissions reductions or removals and what’s the confidence for these estimates?
• Feasibility:
  • Are there demonstrations of feasibility current? At what stage? Where?
  • What is the present value per MT CO2-equivalent? What are future estimated prices by roughly 2030?
  • Explain why your workforce has the related experience and construction to succeed.
  • What are key limitations and what plans are in place to overcome limitations, constraints, dangers, or trade-offs with scaling up the answer?
• Co-benefits
  • Will the proposed answer lead to co-benefits to communities, economies, or ecosystems?
  • What is the potential for adverse penalties (e.g. on communities, economies, or ecosystems) and what are options to mitigate them?

Application

• Phase I: First spherical submissions Due February 28, 2025 (all submissions have to be submitted by 11:59 PM MST, Friday evening)
• Phase II:  Finalists submit second-round utility on May 13 and pitch in-person at Wilkes Climate Summit on the University of Utah, May 15, 2025
• Awards: Award ceremony in September 2025

Click here to apply

For extra info. go to Wilkes Climate Launch Prize.