Weekly briefings
Curated weekly briefings on sustainability funding signals, what changed across foundations, DFIs, corporates, and government procurement, and what to watch in the next 1-6 months. RSS · JSON
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- Procurement / RFPGovernment / public programmeGood · 73/100
A UK environmental research council opens £8M for curiosity-driven environmental research
A rare early-stage UK grant window rewards transformative environmental science over near-term commercial readiness.
- Procurement / RFPFoundationStrong · 78/100
A Swiss corporate foundation opens a 2027 innovation call for APAC climate innovators
A mid-September deadline gives Asia-Pacific climate ventures a narrow window into a corporate foundation pipeline that has historically fed follow-on capital.
- Procurement / RFPFoundationGood · 71/100
A US tech-company foundation opens rolling climate grant pipeline with 3-week turnaround
An always-on Discovery Form and fast triage give early-stage climate innovators a low-friction entry to a US tech-company foundation's grantmaking.
- Procurement / RFPFoundationGood · 73/100
A Western Indian Ocean marine science body opens an ocean alkalinity enhancement research call
A regional research call brings ocean alkalinity enhancement funding to the Western Indian Ocean, signalling geographic broadening of marine CDR capital.
- Procurement / RFPDFI / MDB / SovereignStrong · 79/100
UNIDO opens 30+ sustainability tenders across Africa, LatAm, Asia
A large August batch of UNIDO procurement covers renewables, circularity, industrial decarbonization and food systems, with most deadlines inside four weeks.
- Partnership / coalitionVC / private capitalGood · 71/100
A US food-and-beverage company opens 2026 Asia-Pacific accelerator to 5 alumni for supply-chain scale-up
A US food-and-beverage company is turning its accelerator into a procurement pathway for climate startups in Asia-Pacific.
- Procurement / RFPGovernment / public programmeGood · 72/100
A UK environmental-research agency reopens £25M large grants for environmental science consortia
UK research organisations get a fresh window at £1.12M–£3.45M awards, with outline invitations gating full applications from August.
- Budget / infraDFI / MDB / SovereignWatch · 62/100
A European development bank opens financing gap window for early-stage climate ventures
The Netherlands-based development bank is targeting the awkward space between incubation and Series A, where climate startups routinely stall.
- Procurement / RFPFoundationWeak · 58/100
A US conservation society reopens grants across ocean, biodiversity, climate adaptation
The society's rolling call spans six focus areas and is open to individuals as well as teams, keeping a rare early-stage grant route live for conservation-linked ventures.
- Procurement / RFPVC / private capitalGood · 71/100
A corporate-backed accelerator opens four supply-chain tracks to climate startups
A single corporate-backed challenge is now sourcing vendors across logistics, manufacturing, safety and social-risk in supply chains.
- Budget / infraFoundationWatch · 64/100
Staffordshire opens two sustainability grant funds to local groups
A Staffordshire community foundation has surfaced two live grant funds — backed by a UK cashback platform and a regional environmental initiative — as active routes for local climate projects.
- Procurement / RFPGood · 71/100
A Singapore nature-based carbon coalition locks in 635kt of Indonesian nature-based removals
A US tech company, a US management consultancy, and a China tech company's Indonesia offtakes signal that corporate buyers are now writing real cheques for high-integrity nature-based carbon removal.
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