2023 RESULTS
Competition Snapshot
438
Student Participants
121
Proposals Submitted
23
International Universities Represented
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Main Competition Winner – £10,000
Green Peat Capital
Imperial College London - MSc
Blended finance solution to allow peatland farmers to diversify traditional agricultural revenue streams into ‘paludiculture’ products, unlocking carbon markets potential.
Emerging Markets Winner – £6,000
Saving Savannahs
University of Waterloo
Financing solutions to manage wildfire risks in the Savannahs, using controlled burning in the Early Dry Season (EDS) to help reduce severity and impact of late season fires.
Financial Disruption Winner - £6,000
Climate Kick
London Business School
Fintech start-up promoting use of financial tokenization to open up smaller ticket investments into green assets for institutional investors and cryptocurrency deposit holders.
Data Analytics Winner (CGFI) - £5,000
Reckon
University of Cambridge
Social impact bonds geared towards mitigating the impact on people and livelihoods as coal-intensive industries in India and elsewhere through the provision of a just transition tool.
The Judges
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Zarak Pasha
Director, Transition Finance
Standard Chartered
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Kroum Sourov
Lead ESG Analyst
CANDRIAM
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Anne Foster
Global Head of ESG
Quinbrook
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Dr Brian Matthews
DAPHNI Lead
CGFI
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Jim Shaikh
Head of the Greenhouse
The Grantham Institute