The Climate Impact Innovation Fund

The Climate Impact Innovation Fund supports early-stage collaborative projects across Yale focused on reversing climate change and biodiversity loss, and improving environmental health and justice. This is an opportunity for Yale-centered teams to accelerate research, scholarship, and impact.

The fund accelerates exploration, experimentation, development, and implementation of:

1. Substantial reductions or removals of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere;
2. Protections to human health from a rapidly changing global climate;
3. Improvements in environmental economic models, environmental policy innovation, and environmental justice outcomes.

Projects emphasizing engineering, prototyping, and proof of concept work are a priority. The fund supports work on the roots of planetary challenges and ways to address them, including business, financial, and policy tools. This may include the deployment, commercialization, or scale-up of a research idea.

Application: Apply for the Climate Impact Innovation Fund

Deadline: Applications due January 25, 2023.

Support for Biodiversity and Environmental Health Research

Species are disappearing at a rate not seen in millennia. The consequences of the planet's sixth extinction are coming into focus through research, and solutions are in development. Simultaneously, the links between environmental health and human health are becoming ever clearer.

Researchers, scholars, and practitioners are invited to apply for early-stage support for innovative projects addressing biodiversity loss and environmental health.

Applications: Apply for seed grants