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Progress isn’t enough. We need breakthroughs.

We are losing the race to prevent the most catastrophic impacts of global warming. Efforts to address the crisis simply have not been enough. The planet needs new transformative strategies.

The Climate Breakthrough Project finds extraordinary strategists and gives them the time, space, and resources to create and implement the boldest strategies they can conceive to mitigate climate change.

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We're looking for the world's best problem solvers.

Breakthrough leaders solve problems by creating new solutions that overcome, or entirely circumvent, seemingly intractable barriers. We give US$2 million awards to individuals or small teams with a track record of successfully building new projects and an ability to think big. We want people who will have the vision and discipline to generate systemic change and make a global impact within ten years.

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An initiative of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in partnership with the Oak Foundation and the Good Energies Foundation.

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Climate Breakthrough Awardees

Tzeporah Berman

Tzeporah Berman has a long record of leading and winning major environmental campaigns and negotiating significant policy victories. Now she is focused on curtailing the global oil and gas supply.
Award Year 2019

Tessa Khan

Tessa Khan co-founded the Climate Litigation Network, which supports efforts using the law as a tool to dramatically increase national climate mitigation ambition. The Network supports litigation and movement building
Award Year 2018

Bruce Nilles

Bruce is the founder of Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign, which stopped the rush for new coal plants in America, and secured retirement of over half the country’s coal fleet.
Award Year 2018

Yang Fuqiang

Fuqiang is leading a project to design an oil consumption cap in China that would help the country “leap over the age of oil” and move quickly to clean energy.
Award Year 2017

May Mei

May is the founder of GoalBlue, a Chinese startup NGO that aims to spark lasting low-carbon dietary and lifestyle trends among China’s rapidly growing middle class, urban, and millennial populations.
Award Year 2016

John Hepburn

John is Executive Director of The Sunrise Project and co-founder of Unfriend Coal, a network of NGOs and social movements calling for insurers to divest from and cease underwriting coal.
Award Year 2016
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