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Team for the Planet, the Lyon-based climate organisation founded in 2020, has launched a global call for innovation that will award €1 million to each selected climate inventor, targeting breakthroughs ready to move from the lab to industrial scale.
Researchers, engineers, and entrepreneurs from any country are eligible to apply. The initiative reflects the organisation's founding conviction that decarbonisation must rest on financially sound footing.
A Prize Structure Designed for Scale-Up The award is structured not as a grant for early-stage research but as capital to push proven innovations toward industrial deployment.
That distinction matters: the gap between a working prototype and a manufacturable product is where most climate technologies stall, and Team for the Planet is explicitly targeting that choke point.
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