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

  • Zarak Pasha

    Director, Transition Finance

    Standard Chartered

  • Kroum Sourov

    Lead ESG Analyst

    CANDRIAM

  • Anne Foster

    Global Head of ESG

    Quinbrook

  • Dr Brian Matthews

    DAPHNI Lead

    CGFI

  • Jim Shaikh

    Head of the Greenhouse

    The Grantham Institute