Stop the Amazon from Tipping Grant
In context
This call is open to startups, small and medium-sized businesses and non-profits and 5 others, at idea and R&D stage, prototype and pilot stage and pre-seed. Coverage is read from the notice itself: Brazil, Peru and Colombia and 6 others.
This initiative funds innovation and coalition-building to create sustainable products from the Amazon rainforest as alternatives to extractive industries, reducing deforestation and transforming local economies. It targets entrepreneurs, organizations, and coalitions developing nature-positive business models in the Amazon region.
About this grant
Stop the Amazon from Tipping is a Conservation X Labs (CXL) initiative within their 'Drive Nature-Positive Economic Transformation' strategic pillar. The programme addresses the alarming rate at which the Amazon rainforest — one of the world's largest carbon sinks and most biodiverse regions — is being destroyed by extractive economic activity. Economically poor but biodiversity-rich Amazonian communities currently lack viable alternatives to value chains that drive deforestation and resource destruction. CXL's approach involves incentivizing innovation, building coalitions, and leveraging emerging science to create new products from the rainforest that offer sustainable replacements for food, feed, fiber, and materials. By supporting breakthrough solutions through open innovation prizes, challenges, and in-house invention, CXL aims to reduce destruction, transform local economies, and ensure the long-term thriving of the Amazon region. This initiative is part of CXL's broader open innovation model, which has completed 19 prizes and challenges, distributed over $12 million in funding to breakthrough solutions, and supported 165 game-changing innovations, with over $570 million in follow-on support to innovators after engagement with CXL.
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Eligibility
The page does not specify detailed eligibility criteria for this particular initiative. CXL's open innovation model historically engages innovators, entrepreneurs, scientists, and interdisciplinary teams globally who are developing solutions at the intersection of biodiversity, technology, and marketplace transformation. Specific eligibility requirements, if any, would be defined within individual prize or challenge calls associated with this programme.
How it's scored
No specific evaluation criteria are described on this page for the Stop the Amazon from Tipping initiative. CXL's broader model emphasizes cutting-edge technology, interdisciplinary innovation, and scalable, transformative solutions rather than incremental ones. Judging criteria for individual challenges are not disclosed here.
Key requirements
- ✓Innovation in sustainable product development from Amazon rainforest resources
- ✓Demonstrated potential to reduce extractive value chains and deforestation
- ✓Coalition-building and local economic transformation focus
- ✓Alignment with nature-positive economy principles
Frequently asked questions
- Who can apply for Stop the Amazon from Tipping?
- Eligibility covers organisations in BR, PE, CO, EC, BO, VE and 3 more countries; startup, sme, nonprofit, social-enterprise, cooperative, consortium, community-group, indigenous-community. See the eligibility criteria above for the full conditions.
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About this sector
Biodiversity funding backs habitat restoration, species protection, protected areas and nature-positive business. It comes from environment agencies, multilateral nature funds and conservation philanthropy, often through competitive calls with defined regions. Applicants are usually asked for baseline surveys, local partners and indicators that show ecological change.
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