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Launching bold climate solutions for the planet

Why Breakthroughs

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 degrees or more of warming.

How we fund

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.

What we fund

Innovative strategies in social, behavioral, economic, and policy change are all encouraged and awardees can operate anywhere in world–so 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.

Our Goals

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.

Who We Are

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.

Our People

Climate Breakthrough Awardees

Extraordinary people making climate breakthroughs happen.

Tzeporah Berman

Tzeporah Berman has a long record of leading and winning major environmental campaigns and negotiating significant policy victories. Now she is focused on curtailing the global oil and gas supply.
Award Year 2019
Mohamed Adow

Mohamed Adow

Mohamed Adow is an international climate policy expert and ardent advocate for the people of developing nations—who are disproportionately affected by climate change but play almost no role in causing
Award Year 2020

Yang Fuqiang

Fuqiang finished his Climate Breakthrough tenure this year. Selected in 2017, he used his award to mainstream within the policy and business circles the idea of capping oil consumption in
Award Year 2017

Nguy Thi Khanh

Nguy Thi Khanh is a pioneer leader of Vietnam’s environmental movement and has played an instrumental role in shifting Vietnam from coal and towards renewables and energy efficiency. Khanh’s breakthrough
Award Year 2019

Bruce Nilles

Founder and lead strategist of the Beyond Coal Campaign, before receiving his Climate Breakthrough Award, Bruce’s efforts secured the retirement of over half the United States’ coal fleet. When selected
Award Year 2018

John Hepburn

John is Executive Director of The Sunrise Project. He used his Climate Breakthrough Award to launch Insure Our Future, a global campaign to hold the insurance industry accountable for its
Award Year 2016

May Mei

May is the founder of GoalBlue, a Chinese startup NGO that aims to spark lasting low-carbon dietary and lifestyle trends among China’s rapidly growing middle class, urban, and millennial populations.
Award Year 2016

Arief Rabik

Arief Rabik is the director of Indonesia’s Environmental Bamboo Foundation and the founder of the 1000 Bamboo Villages project, which aims to create economic viability for the use of bamboo
Award Year 2019
Nicole Rycroft

Nicole Rycroft

Nicole Rycroft is an accomplished environmental activist, an Ashoka Fellow, and, unusually, a former physiotherapist and elite rower. A systems thinker, she confronts the world’s rapid and dangerous destruction of
Award Year 2020

Sebastián Kind

As the Undersecretary for Renewable Energy in Argentina, Sebastián was the architect and primary driver of Argentina’s RenovAr program, which has attracted over $7.4 billion USD in clean energy investments resulting
Award Year 2019

Tessa Khan

Tessa began her work as an awardee focused on using the law as a tool to dramatically increase national climate mitigation ambition. The Climate Litigation Network (CLN), which she co-founded,
Award Year 2018
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