Deadline: 1 November 2023
The Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund (CIEIF) is offering direct grants to investigators worldwide working to stop and reverse global warming.
The new Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund (CIEIF) begins operations, with the goal of helping kickstart new approaches to restoring Earth’s climate in the face of rapid deterioration.
The grants are focused on predictive environmental impact assessments, impact modeling studies, and stakeholder engagement for proposed small-scale field tests of innovative climate intervention technologies. CIEIF also offers investigators expert advice on doing impact assessment and stakeholder outreach.
Funding Information
- CIEIF is now taking applications for 2023 for three awards of $50,000 each.
Criteria
- To be eligible, an applicant’s technology must be ready for field testing and potentially scalable to globally relevant levels. Within those criteria, the Fund is open to a range of ideas such as marine cloud brightening, coatings and structures that remove greenhouse gases, enhanced weathering, ice and land albedo enhancements, methane removal, ocean fertilization, and other ocean interventions.
- Certain other technologies are not eligible for CIEIF financial support. For example, field tests of stratospheric solar radiation management (SRM) are ineligible, given how difficult it would be to control its effects and to govern its use. CIEIF also excludes grants for carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) and direct air capture (DAC), since they are already backed by large funding programs.
- A key criterion for CIEIF-funded projects is commitment to transparency, including publishing results of the analysis of the project. CIEIF funding will neither replace nor undermine any applicable governmental permit processes; instead, it will complement them.
For more information, visit CIEIF.
