2020 Keeling Curve Prize

Each year, the Keeling Curve Prize for Excellence awards hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money to projects across the globe that are reducing greenhouse gas emissions or increasing uptake. In the Summer of 2020, the prizes of $25,000 per project will be awarded to two projects in each of the following categories:

• CAPTURE & UTILIZATION
  Projects in this category activate and accelerate natural and/or man-made systems for carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (CCUS). They are advancing technological and nature-based strategies for capturing and/or utilizing heat-trapping gases from the air or oceans.
• ENERGY
  Projects in this category decarbonize energy, support zero-carbon energy innovations and are leading the way in the supply, distribution, access, infrastructure, or improvements of low or zero-emissions energy systems worldwide.
• FINANCE
  Projects that apply in this category are making the economics and/or financial mechanisms work for heat-trapping gas reduction and/or reversal ventures.
• SOCIAL & CULTURAL PATHWAYS
  Projects in this category are changing the way people consider, understand, and act on humanity’s impacts affecting the livability of planet Earth. They are trying to answer the question: what does it take, socially and culturally, to develop beyond fossil fuels?
• TRANSPORT & MOBILITY
  Projects that apply in this category should be reimagining and reinventing all types of vehicles, fuels, and mobility options for both people and products. These projects will confront the carbon footprint of the vehicles themselves and the routes traveled

Applications can be submitted via the Online Application Form.

The prize closes upon receipt of 300 applications, or February 10, 2020 at 11:59pm GMT (whichever occurs first).