Application Deadline: 15th May 2026
LOCATION: Singapore
Join the world’s largest green business ideas competition powered by Climate KIC to turn your green idea into a successful start-up. Have an idea for a greener future? This is your place to start.
ELIGIBILITY:
To enter the competition, submit your idea or innovation with environmental impact. We’ll help you fast-track that idea into a business and bypass all possible pitfalls along the way.
Note: Applications are now open globally!
Climate Launchpad is built for early-stage climate innovators, especially if you’re at the idea or concept stage.
No company yet? No funding? No finished product? No problem. If you have a climate solution you want to explore, this is where you start.
Their free programme guides you step-by-step through the fundamentals of building and testing a climate venture, in a supportive, global community designed for first-time founders.
The Programme:
Mini-course: After you apply, you’ll unlock our online climate entrepreneurship course covering climate basics, systems thinking, and entrepreneurial mindset.
Boot Camp: Selected teams join an interactive virtual boot camp with expert trainers to strengthen their idea, business model, and pitch.
Follow-up coaching and National Finals: You’ll receive targeted coaching to test assumptions, refine your story, and prepare to pitch.
Regional Finals: The Top-3 teams from each country advance to pitch online against the strongest start-ups across Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
Regional Finals: They bring together our worldwide community of climate innovators, including National Final winners and top regional teams, to celebrate bold ideas and breakthrough solutions.
Themes: 8 competition themes:
They work with eight competition themes, representing a selection of the most pressing and relevant focus areas of our time in our fight against climate change.
This ensures that ideas are judged equally against their peers by industry experts, ensuring that the best of the best rise to the top.
The selected themes for this year:
Adaptation & Resilience
Blue Economy
Circular Economies
Clean Energy
Food Systems
Sustainable Mobility
Urban Solutions
The Next Big Thing
BENEFIT:
National Final
First Place Winner: Trip to Singapore
Includes:
Return travel for one representative from the first-place winning start-up from their nearest capital city to Singapore
2-nights hostel accommodation
Invitation to an official networking event
Ticket to attend the ClimateLaunchpad Global Grand Final in Singapore
A booth at the event innovators fair where they can showcase their products/services
First & Second Place Winners: Trip to Singapore and the chance to pitch at the Global Grand Final
Includes:
Return travel for one representative from the winning start-up from their nearest capital city to Singapore
2-nights hostel accommodation
Invitation to an official networking dinner
Ticket to attend the ClimateLaunchpad Global Grand Final in Singapore
A booth at the event innovators fair where they can showcase their products/services
Pitching spot at the Global Grand Final as one of the Top-8 start-ups
Important Note:
If a start-up wins both 1st place in their National Final and qualifies through the Regional Finals, only one trip will be awarded.
What you can expect:
Free to join, there are no programme fees
No equity taken; you stay 100% in control
You keep full ownership of your ideas and intellectual property
Hands-on boot camp training and expert coaching
Opportunities to pitch and gain visibility at National, Regional and Global Finals
Access to a global community of climate innovators and like-minded individuals
The global top-8 pitch live for cash prizes in front of an international jury.
The ClimateLaunchpad 2026 Global Grand Final takes place in Singapore.
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