Apply for the MIT Solve 2025 Global Climate Challenge (grants available from $10,000)

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Closing Date: 17 April 2025

Apply for the MIT Solve 2025 Global Climate Challenge (grants available from $10,000)

Global Climate Challenge Overview

Climate change is an omnipresent issue marked by another year of record-breaking heat, intensifying extreme weather, and long-term impacts determined by near-term choices. While driven by emissions from energy, industry, and agriculture in a concentrated set of economies, climate change disproportionately impacts the up to 3.6 billion people living in contexts that are under-resourced and highly vulnerable. The climate crisis requires dramatic action from all stakeholders, including rapid technology deployment and further innovation alongside bold policies, financial commitments, and global market shifts.

Technology and innovation have an important role to play in abating the effects of climate change. Technology exists to replace or mitigate all major areas of current emissions but often has minimal deployment in vulnerable communities due to cost and a lack of design for context and scale. Innovation can offer new business models, decreased costs, and ways to deploy known approaches alongside new technologies that can help meet mitigation and adaptation goals at the speed of the crisis.

MIT Solve seeks exceptional solutions that leverage technology to address any aspect of the climate crisis with a particular interest for 2025 in solutions that:

Drive a shift towards a low-carbon and nutritious global food system, across large and small-scale producers plus supply chains.
Build zero-carbon and resilient cities, including through better construction or retrofitting of multi-family or commercial buildings, enabling non-car transportation, and managing extreme weather.
Enable rapid deployment of distributed renewable energy and adaptation measures, such as community-scale solar, ecosystem restoration, or cooling/dehumidification.
Strengthen a low-carbon blue economy, including sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, marine industry, or ecosystem conservation.