Climate Breakthrough Project

Climate donors and NGOs often coalesce around a few established strategies. The resulting progress is usually positive, but incremental. We have not invested enough in the kind of novel and potentially game-changing strategies we need in order to achieve massive greenhouse gas reductions and get our planet off an unacceptable trajectory of 3 degree... s or more of warming. We provide large, multi-year, unrestricted awards to help empower promising leaders with powerful, high-risk, high-reward innovations in the climate space. We fund extraordinary individuals and small teams, not institutions or organizations, and we allow them to step beyond their typical past work in order to consider and develop the most ambitious strategies they can execute. Innovative strategies in social, behavioral, economic, and policy change are all encouraged and awardees can operate anywhere in worldso long as their work can make a globally significant impact on emissions over the next five to ten years. In addition to funding, we provide additional access to expert resources and assistance to help awardees scale their work. We aim to fund several new projects each year that collectively will lead to multi-gigaton annual emissions reductions within 10 years. Our goal aligns with the scale and speed of the goals we want our awardees to set. We know not every strategy Climate Breakthrough funds will achieve success. We expect strategies will change and we expect strategies will fail. We are looking to make an impact by investing in those innovators who are willing to think big and take risks to address the defining problem of our age. Climate Breakthrough Project, formerly known as the Climate Strategies Accelerator, launched in 2015. We are an initiative of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in partnership with the Oak Foundation, the IKEA Foundation, the JPB Foundation, and the Good Energies Foundation. Tzeporah Berman has a long record of leading and winning major environmental campaigns and negotiating significant policy ...Read More