The Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund supports and advises innovative investigators across the world who are working to reverse climate change.
Applicants should write a grant request that demonstrates how they would spend $75,000 usefully on EIA, predictive impact modeling, and/or engagement efforts with potentially impacted stakeholders – from local communities to government agencies – for their proposed climate intervention field test.
The CIEIF grant aims to support applicants whose projects directly address one or more of the three core areas:
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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA),
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predictive impact modeling, and
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engagement with potentially impacted stakeholders.
Applications that do not focus on at least one of these elements will be quickly rejected.
The initiative seeks to encourage innovative, transparent, and socially responsible approaches to field testing climate intervention technologies, ensuring that both environmental and societal implications are well understood before large-scale implementation.
To be eligible, applicants must submit a detailed proposal addressing ten specific questions. These include providing complete contact information and biosketches for all personnel, a full discussion of the proposed field test, prior research supporting technological readiness, and siting details.
Proposals must also address anticipated technical, environmental, economic, social, and public health challenges. Each application must include a list of prior publications related to the feasibility and scalability of the intervention technology, and name at least two independent consulting firms capable of conducting independent impact analyses or modeling.
A rough budget, information on other funding sources, insurance coverage for the proposed test, and confirmation of willingness to publish results must also be provided. Additional relevant information about the project may be included if not covered by the listed requirements.
All applications will be treated confidentially. Selected grantees will engage in discussions with CIEIF personnel regarding consulting needs related to EIA, impact modeling, and stakeholder outreach.
Once scoping discussions are complete, one-third of the $75,000 grant will be disbursed upfront, with subsequent payments tied to negotiated project benchmarks. The grant allows for potential repeated annual funding. CIEIF will not directly contract outside consultants but will offer advisory support throughout the project’s duration.
Publication of results is a major selection criterion, as CIEIF aims to promote supported papers and reports as models for future climate intervention field tests. Applicants are expected to publish findings in peer-reviewed journals or externally reviewed reports, with flexibility in timing based on project and permit requirements.