OUR Program
For the past decade, Climate Breakthrough has pursued a single mission to catalyze transformational, not incremental, climate action to swiftly and justly close the gap between the world today and a sustainable future. That means backing visionary strategists to develop, launch, and scale ideas with the potential to reduce global annual emissions by hundreds of millions of tons, affect entire industries or regions of the world, and materially change the lives of millions of people.
Breaking News
Tuesday, September 15, 2026: Meet the 2026 cohort of the Climate Breakthrough Award program. Each is embarking on their most ambitious initiative to create breakthroughs in systems critical to resolving the climate crisis.
- Delphine Lévi Alvarès Orofino: to build the first coordinated global effort to reduce the world’s dependence on petrochemicals—the plastics, fertilizers, pesticides, and synthetic materials made from oil and gas—and make alternatives imaginable, practical, and scalable
- Josimara Baré: to transform the way climate finance reaches Indigenous Peoples and traditional communities so that those protecting the world’s most important ecosystems can receive funding directly and direct resources on their own terms and according to their own priorities
- Nyasha Frank Mpahlo: to build the ecosystem needed to connect African innovators across the continent and help locally led energy solutions grow from promising pilots into systems capable of transforming communities
- Valmir Ortega: to build the financial and operational infrastructure needed to make regenerative agriculture the most viable and profitable path for tropical farming landscapes
OUR Legacy
Since 2016, we have championed some of the world’s most capable strategists to swiftly and justly close the gap between the world today and a sustainable future. In celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Climate Breakthrough Award program, we’re proud to share a film featuring 19 inspiring Climate Breakthrough Awardees and what drives them.
Problem solvers and social innovators, scientists and storytellers, community builders and systems movers, all showing up day after day to do the hard work of building a new world through climate action. They speak about despair and hope. About community and courage. About the moments that broke them and the ones that rebuilt them. And through it all, they return to one truth: climate action does not belong to any one profession, identity, or pathway. It belongs to all of us, exactly as we are. This film is a tribute to everyone who shows up for this work, in any way you can.
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