Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund Grant Program

Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund Grant Program

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund
Amount: Up to US $50,000
Last Updated: September 22, 2025

Summary

The Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund Grant Program supports innovative climate intervention technologies by funding environmental impact assessments, predictive modeling, and stakeholder engagement. Grants of up to $50,000 are available for qualified investigators to conduct field tests, excluding projects focused on SRM, CCUS, and DAC due to existing funding. Priority is given to non-profit institutions and those willing to publish results. This initiative seeks scalable solutions to climate challenges while ensuring thorough analysis of potential impacts.

Overview

Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund What We Do We carefully review grant applications to make awards to support EIA, predictive impact modeling, and engagement efforts with potentially impacted stakeholders for innovative technologies that are on the verge of field testing. We will consider any climate intervention by qualified investigators with the potential to be scaled-up to meaningful climate benefits except for stratospheric (or higher) Solar Radiation Management (SRM) because of its severe controversiality, questionable governability, and the availability of other funding for it. We also exclude Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) and Direct Air Capture (DAC) due to other existing large funding programs. Examples of innovative interventions could include: biochar, black soot removal/mitigation, CDR (but not DAC), cloud brightening, coatings that remove greenhouse gases, enhanced weathering, ice and land albedo enhancements, livestock methane capture and other agricultural interventions, methane removal, ocean fertilization and other ocean interventions, updraft chimneys or towers that remove greenhouse gases, NOx and chlorofluorocarbon removal, and similar methods. Guidelines Applicants should write a grant request that demonstrates how they would spend $50,000 usefully on EIA, predictive impact modeling, and/or engagement efforts with potentially impacted stakeholders – from local communities to government agencies – for their proposed field test. These ten questions must be addressed in an application: Complete contact information and biosketches for all personnel involved in the proposed field test, including all positions they hold. A full discussion of the proposed field test, including describing the prior research that indicates the technology is ready for the proposed field test. Include siting information and anticipated technical and environmental impact challenges. For the latter, include discussion of economic, social, and/or public health or safety challenges that may be foreseeable. Be sure to describe: what makes your project innovative? Identify the needed government permits or approvals at all relevant levels of government. Provide a list of all prior publications related to the feasibility of the technology and its potential to be scaled up to a climate-relevant scale. Identify at least two independent consulting firms that may be able to conduct the needed independent impact analysis or impact modeling, or other needed consultants that may match the economic, social license and/or health challenges of the project. Provide a rough budget for the needed work, which may include salary time for the applicant for time engaged in EIA and related work List all other funding sources for the investigation. Describe any insurance that may cover the proposed field test. Confirm your willingness to have results of the field test published at an appropriate time. Add any other key information about the proposed project that is not identified in the prior questions.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. We only give grants to aid the analysis of proposed field tests. The analysis should include environmental and, if applicable, any economic, social, and/or human health impacts that foreseeably may flow from the project.We only support projects for which the results will be documented either by journal publication or through some other peer-reviewed report. Work supported by CIEIF should not be seen as an alternative to necessary government compliance and permitting, rather it should aim to complement and support the necessary governmental processes.

Ineligibility

CIEIF does not provide any basic research or implementation funding.