2022 Keeling Curve Prize Finalists Announced in Miami, FL
Twenty projects from around the world are announced as Keeling Curve Prize finalists, ten of them will go on to win $25,000 each.
Miami, Florida. – On Tuesday, May 10th, the Global Warming Mitigation Project (GWMP) revealed the finalists of the 2022 round of the Keeling Curve Prize (KCP), celebrating the positive work being done around the world to address the climate crisis. This year’s finalists are recognized for innovations such as green nitrogen fertilizer production, seaweed cultivation for cattle feed, and electric aircrafts.
Each year, the Keeling Curve Prize awards $25,000 to 10 projects across the globe with significant potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to promote carbon uptake. The 2022 prize attracted nearly 400 applications.
This year’s KCP Finalist Ceremony was held live in Miami as a part of the Aspen Ideas: Climate conference. GWMP’s Executive Director, Jacque Francis, was joined by GWMP’S Saige Middleton, 2021 KCP Laureate Som Ray of CLIP, Aven Satre-Meloy (KCP Analyst), and Brian Kurtz (GWMP Circuit Board member).
Francis shared, “Everyone at the Global Warming Mitigation Project is thrilled with the cohort of this year’s finalists. We truly value the work these incredible climate organizations are doing around the world to mitigate this crisis. Together, we hope to empower these organizations to pave the way to a livable future.”
KCP finalists are selected from a field of hundreds of applications, after passing through a rigorous screening process conducted by the program’s impressive team of analysts.
This year, GWMP is excited to announce a new collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that will bring incredible value to this group of companies. AWS will be providing finalists with up to $10,000 In AWS Activate, a program that has helped hundreds of thousands of startups grow and scale their businesses. Qualifying finalists can use these credits for scalable, reliable, and secure AWS Cloud services such as compute, storage, database, analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), and machine learning to help them build world-changing climate solutions.
GWMP is also participating In the AWS Clean Energy Accelerator 2.0, a global program designed to catalyze innovation and support innovative startups that are helping to transform the future of energy.
2022 KEELING CURVE PRIZE FINALISTS
Build Up Nepal Engineering empowers rural entrepreneurs and communities to build safe, affordable homes and resilient incomes.
KOKO Networks is an international technology company leading the way in clean ethanol cooking fuel and cooking products.
The Ray is building clean solar energy infrastructure along highways in the United States.
Nitricity is commercializing a breakthrough technology that produces fertilizer using only air, water, and renewable energy.
The Inga Foundation works to help communities and farmers in Honduras change from slash-and-burn agriculture methods to alternative systems that could save farmers from having to clear new areas of rainforest every year.
Canopy works to transform unsustainable supply chains, catalyze innovative solutions, and keep the world’s vital forests standing.
Wastezon is envisioning a waste-free world by using a mobile app to connect recycling industries with households to transact recyclable solid wastes.
SubjectToClimate is an online connector for K-12 teachers of all subjects to find credible, unbiased, and engaging materials on climate change.
Grupo Ecologico Sierra Gorda IAP is a model of entrepreneurship and social participation in the Sierra Gorda, Mexico, where they correlate economic development with biodiversity conservation.
Kelp Blue Trading plants kelp forests around the globe to boost the health of the oceans and lock away carbon dioxide forever. They harvest the kelp canopy for sustainable agri-foods, fertilizer, pharmaceuticals, and textiles.
Air Company transforms carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into alcohols that can be used to create everyday products like hand sanitizers and spirits.
Symbrosia is working on a breakthrough solution to drastically reduce the methane produced by livestock around the world, naturally.
MEETS Coalition is a new approach to deep energy efficiency that harvests energy from commercial buildings.
LEAF Coalition empowers tropical and subtropical forest countries to move more rapidly towards ending deforestation.
BioLite designs off-grid, personal scale energy products for cooking, charging, and lighting.
GreenMax Capital Advisors is a group of international clean energy investment advisory and management-consulting firms established in 1994.
BasiGo Inc. is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing public transport bus owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel.
Center for Transportation & the Environment develops, promotes, and implements advanced transportation technologies, vehicles and fuels that reduce environmental pollution and fossil fuel dependency.
Ampaire Inc. is making flying more accessible to more people from more airports by developing electric aircrafts that are safe, clean, quiet, and less costly.
Enzinc Inc. is a zinc battery company that is making an advanced rechargeable battery for mobility and stationary uses.
About the Keeling Curve Prize
The Keeling Curve Prize awards $250,000 annually to projects that display proven carbon uptake, drawdown, or sequestration efforts. The prize is a program of the Global Warming Mitigation Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that is identifying, activating, and accelerating projects and programs worldwide that are reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing carbon uptake. This includes direct funding of vetted organizations, enhancing networking and promotional efforts, identifying ways to unleash funding opportunities for climate solutions, and supporting climate justice.
