Do you have an idea (high-tech or low-tech) to fight climate change by reducing carbon emissions? If so, then the Forum for the Future wants to hear about it. The organization has teamed with the Financial Times newspaper for the Climate Change Challenge competition. Their goal is to seek out the best, most innovative, most practical ideas to fight global warming.While just about any idea can qualify, entries do need to be ready for implementation, as the $75,000 prize money (sponsored by HP) must be used toward making the idea a reality:
"We want to find ideas that are below the radar – being developed by think-tanks, academic institutions or individual entrepreneurs – and identify those that can be taken to scale quickly and make a real difference. We will be scouring the world for the most exciting low-carbon ideas. These could be new technologies, systems or services, novel organisations or business models."
Entries are already being accepted, and the 12 most promising ideas will be sent to a panel of "celebrity" judges, including Sir Richard Branson and other business and environmental leaders. The judges will then pick five ideas to be published in the Financial Times this March for reader voting. The winning idea, chosen by FT readers, will be announced in April 2009.
Obviously, since those top entries will be published before the winner is selected, the entries need to be ideas that are already being put into practice. Otherwise, they'd be made public and you'd never be able to capitalize on them.
But if you're feeling entrepreneurial, and your idea is already protected (copyright, patent, etc), and you think getting that idea in front of some top minds is a good way to get some seed money, this contest was created just for you.
Don't delay if you're interested. The deadline is January 30, 2009. Full details are at the link above.
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