UNICEF Climate Innovation Challenge 2025 for  early and growth stage frontier tech start-ups.

Applications are now open for the 2025 UNICEF Climate Innovation Challenge.
UNICEF is launching a call for solutions from emerging markets in collaboration with India Health Fund (IHF), and the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL). To maximize impact, UNICEF will foster collaboration between early-stage frontier tech ventures and help scale proven climate adaptation solutions. This dual track approach seeks to drive impact and provide long-term sustainability.

ELIGIBILITY

Companies need to fulfil the following mandatory selection criteria to be considered:

  • be registered as a private for-profit company
  • be registered in a UNICEF programme country 
  • have a working prototype or minimum viable product of the proposed solution, ideally, showing promising results
  • be open source or willing to be open source
  • have the potential to positively impact the lives of the most vulnerable children
  • generate publicly exposed real-time data that is measurable 

DEADLINE: October 21, 2025

To apply and for more information, Visit here

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