We’re working with UN habitat on the Smart Cities Challenge to help cities around the world transition to carbon neutrality.
We also work on challenges that look at how to create renewable power from existing sources, reducing our society’s reliance on fossil fuels.
Our Longitude Prize on AMR sets out to develop a test for bacterial infections and ensure that the right antibiotics are used.
This will help reduce antimicrobial resistance and ensure medicines we rely upon stay effective, even as the world increases in temperature and bacteria grows more quickly.
The Fall Armyworm Tech Prize incentivised innovative solutions to help farmers in sub-Saharan Africa manage and tackle the invasive and crop-destroying pest to ensure communities have food and farmers have incomes.
Climate change is predicted to increase Fall Armyworm outbreaks around the world with knock-on implications for nutrition and rural poverty, two issues that are well-understood to exacerbate health inequalities.