Deadline: 2 March 2025
The Climate Investment Challenge calls on students to develop and describe creative financial solutions and innovations addressing the defining challenge of the time climate change.
This could include identifying untapped climate finance opportunities or developing innovative financial structures or instruments that improve the bankability of climate investments.
Types of prizes
- The Main Competition Prize: challenges students to create innovative financial structures or instruments that enhance the bankability of climate investments or utilize existing tools (e.g., loans, derivatives, REITs, bonds) to explore untapped climate finance opportunities. All applicants enter this prize.
- The Emerging and Developing Markets Prize: calls on students to use innovative financial instruments or existing financial tools to address an underserved climate change issue within a specific emerging and developing market. The proposed submission can be applicable to wider geographies and sectors too.
- The Data Analytics Prize: is looking for students to develop creative ways to combine existing climate and environmental datasets with financial information to improve the adoption of climate finance or address climate risk. Such ideas may help to integrate transition or physical climate risk into financial decision-making or develop novel green financial instruments. This can include the use of weather data, climate models, geospatial and satellite data, asset-level information or socio-economic and financial data.
Prize Information
- The Main Competition Prize: £12,000.
- The Emerging and Developing Markets Prize: £7,000
- The Data Analytics Prize: 7,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Students enrolled in any degree at the time of the submission.
- The challenge is open globally to students from all academic backgrounds.
- Undergraduate students may participate, but each group MUST include a postgraduate student.
- Students will have to form teams of 2 to 6 members.
- Students must apply with their student emails.
For more information, visit Climate Investment Challenge.
