2025 Wilkes Climate Launch Prize

$250,000 to Launch your Climate Change Solution!

The Wilkes Climate Launch Prize highlights top global ideas for combating climate change.

Organizations at all stages, both for-profits and nonprofits, anywhere in the world are eligible to submit ideas to be considered for the Wilkes Climate Launch Prize. This includes seed, pre-seed, venture-funded, publicly traded stage companies, or nonprofits.

Key considerations for each criteria.

Scalable impact:  

• How much greenhouse gases (MT CO2-equivalent) could be avoided from emissions or removed from the atmosphere per year in the immediate future (e.g. 2025-2027) and near-term future (e.g. around 2030)?

• What are the potentials for scaling up over the 2030-2050 timescale?

• How will the Prize lead to a transformative change in this sector?

• What is the estimated permanence of these emissions reductions or removals and what is the confidence for these estimates?

Feasibility:

• Are there demonstrations of feasibility existing? At what stage? Where?

• What is the current cost per MT CO2-equivalent? What are future estimated costs by approximately 2030?

• Explain why your team has the relevant expertise and structure to succeed.

• What are key barriers and what plans are in place to overcome barriers, constraints, risks, or trade-offs with scaling up the solution?

Co-benefits

• Will the proposed solution lead to co-benefits to communities, economies, or ecosystems?

• What is the potential for negative consequences (e.g. on communities, economies, or ecosystems) and what are solutions to mitigate them?

For more information and application, click here.