Bold Climate Action Deserves Bold Philanthropy
Our mission at Climate Breakthrough is to make an outsized impact on resolving the climate crisis through our global philanthropy. This mission may not be unique; it’s how we do it that sets us apart.
Bold climate action deserves bold philanthropy. Our Climate Breakthrough Award program is designed for social change leaders to develop, launch, and scale their boldest new initiatives with breakthrough potential to address climate change. Our guiding principle is simple: “Is this idea possible?” rather than “Are we confident it will succeed?”
Learn about how we support visionaries to drive large-scale system changes, not incremental work centered on near-term success, in order to swiftly and justly close the gap between the world today and a sustainable future. Let’s bet big, let’s break through.
OUR WORK
Since 2016, we have selected and supported Climate Breakthrough Awardees through our program to develop, launch, and scale their boldest new initiatives with breakthrough potential to address climate change. This means initiatives that aim to significantly reduce global annual greenhouse gas emissions, affect entire industries or regions of the world, and materially change the lives of tens of millions of people within ten years of launch.
The Climate Breakthrough Award program uniquely blends the large-scale innovation focus of institutions known for pursuing breakthrough inventions like DARPA and ARPA-E, with the nimble and entrepreneurial spirit of startup incubators and venture capital—applying this approach to drive policy, economic, and social change that addresses the climate crisis.
