Liveability Challenge 2025 for Innovators worldwide (S$2 million in funding) – YOA

Deadline: February 9, 2025

Applications are open for the Liveability Challenge 2025. Global temperatures are reaching dangerously new highs yr after yr, with the primary half of 2024 witnessing unprecedented warmth and the most popular months ever recorded. Achieving the local weather targets – set underneath the Paris Agreement in 2015 – has by no means been extra pressing, as societies and ecosystems face escalating threats from rising warmth, excessive climate occasions and ecological deterioration.

As the fast rise of greenhouse fuel emissions pushes us nearer to vital tipping factors, the financial prices of inaction are additionally mounting. We have to take collective motion to succeed in our goal of lowering emissions by 43 p.c by 2030 and reaching internet zero by 2050. This requires coordinated efforts throughout society – we want enabling regulatory environments, strategic investments and enormous-scale deployment of progressive applied sciences.

As Asia’s largest sustainability options platform, The Liveability Challenge (TLC) returns for the eighth version in 2025, looking for groundbreaking local weather options from the world over that push the boundaries of innovation.

Themes

The eighth version of the Liveability Challenge options two major themes:

• Decarbonization: They search disruptive deep-tech options that present scalable and impactful methods to cut back carbon emissions throughout various industries. Examples embody:
  • Waste-to-useful resource applied sciences
  • Renewable vitality improvements
  • Energy effectivity options
• Cool Earth: They are trying for groundbreaking improvements that particularly deal with challenges posed by local weather-induced excessive climate circumstances. Examples embody:
  • Heat mitigation applied sciences
  • Nature-based options

Prizes

• The prime two options from both problem theme will every obtain a grant of S$1 million, with a complete of S$2 million in funding out there.

Eligibility

You are eligible if you’re:  

• 18 years or older.
• Not an worker of Temasek Foundation or Eco-Business.
• Not an in depth relative or related in any other case with the organisation or the judging of the competitors.

Application

Join in shaping a sustainable future. Enter The Liveability Challenge immediately and be part of the answer to our international local weather disaster!

Click here to apply

For extra info. go to Liveability Challenge.