For Q4 of 2024, we’ve handpicked a selection of grants, incubators and accelerators specifically designed for founders in the climate tech sector. These opportunities provide crucial funding, resources, and mentorship needed to scale innovative solutions and make a tangible impact. Each program is an excellent pathway for founders to accelerate growth, gain industry exposure, and drive meaningful change in the climate tech landscape. Make sure to check the details for each opportunity and mark your calendars for these critical deadlines:
OCTOBER
Oct 16th
Worldwide
Apply for an opportunity to deploy funded pilots, pitch for equity investment or carbon credit program purchases, and collaborate with Microsoft, Capgemini and/or Bouygues. This challenge seeks to accelerate the decarbonization of building materials through innovators who are ready to deploy
Oct 16th
Europe
Join us at the iconic Grand Palais in Paris for the most impactful event for the planet!
At the midway point of the 2020-2030 decade for decisive climate action, and echoing the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, ChangeNOW 2025 gathers 1,000 groundbreaking solutions and visionary leaders in a spectacular showcase to accelerate the transition towards a sustainable world.
This is the place where meaningful connections are made and actionable ideas are set in motion.
Oct 26th
Remote
The Third Derivate is looking for world-changing climate tech startups with significant climate impact potential, addressing billion-dollar markets bringing innovations in hard science, hardware, software and business models to the world.
The challenges climate tech startups face are not one-size-fits-all. Their flexible, virtual 18-month accelerator is designed to meet your startup exactly where you are.
Oct 27th
Uk
TechX Clean Energy Accelerator is an intensive 18-week programme for 10 innovative clean energy start-ups with clear potential to accelerate the transition to an affordable net zero energy industry.
Oct 29th
SET Award 2025
Worldwide
The Start Up Energy Transition (SET) Award is the ultimate sustainablity startup competition that empowers climate tech innovators and clean energy startups to catapult their businesses to the frontlines of the energy industry. Your breakthrough solutions have the power to reshape industries, uplift communities, and accelerate the global shift to clean energy—and we’ll make sure the world knows it.
NOVEMBER
Nov 1st
ChangeNOW 2025
Worldwide
At the midway point of the 2020-2030 decade for decisive climate action, and echoing the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, ChangeNOW 2025 gathers 1,000 groundbreaking solutions and visionary leaders in a spectacular showcase to accelerate the transition towards a sustainable world.
Nov 1st
BNEF PIONEERS
Worldwide
The program will focus on three global climate challenges and will award the Pioneers prize to innovators with scalable, impactful and equitable solutions to these challenges.
BNEF will also select one or more wildcard winners, unrelated to the chosen challenges. These wildcard applicants can address any issue that helps the world address climate change, and we encourage submissions for all climate-tech solutions that lie outside of the three challenges outlined below.
Nov 4th
AVEVA EcoTech Emerge Challenge 2024
Worldwide
At AVEVA, they believe the journey to Net Zero isn’t just necessary—it’s urgent. But the path is complex, and industries need bold, transformative solutions to accelerate their progress. They’re calling on you to think big bring forward the brightest software ideas that will help industries overcome the challenges they face in achieving Net Zero. Whether it’s through innovative energy management, smarter resource usage, or any other game-changing approach, your creativity could be the key to unlocking a sustainable future.
Nov 7th
Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance
Brazil, Southern and East Africa, India, the Philippines, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Lab is looking for proposals for innovative solutions to overcome barriers to climate investments in emerging markets and support the transition to a net-zero economy, with a special focus on:
- Sectors: Adaptation, mitigation, and sustainable agriculture and food systems. Each sector will select one idea.
- Regions: Brazil, Southern and East Africa, India, the Philippines, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Each region will select one idea, except for Latin America and the Caribbean, which will select two.
Nov 20th
Techstars Sustainability Accelerator
France
Techstars Sustainability Paris accelerator invests in early stage high-growth startups looking to build a better future thanks to technology, willing to thrive globally. We want to solve some of the greatest challenges our planet faces today such as climate change, pollution, poverty, disease.
DECEMBER
1st
Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund Grant Program
The Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund is pleased to announce applications for its grant program to support environmental impact analysis (EIA), predictive impact modeling, and engagement efforts with potentially impacted stakeholders for innovative climate intervention technologies that are on the verge of field testing.
Dec 13th
EPA Green Chemistry Challenge Awards
USA
The Green Chemistry Challenge Awards promote the environmental and economic benefits of developing and using novel green chemistry. These annual awards recognize chemical technologies that incorporate the principles of green chemistry into chemical design, manufacture, and use.
LOOKING FORWARD INTO Q1 2025...
Feb 4th
Horizon Europe Programme: Critical technologies for the Future Ocean Energy Farms
Europe
Projects are expected to address at least one of the following areas:
- Components and systems used in ocean energy devices need to be resistant to corrosion and the heavy loads they are subject to. Develop new sustainable materials with improved fatigue, damping, stiffness, sustainability and bio-fouling management or other cost-reducing characteristics. Materials such as reinforced concrete, polymers, composites, and concrete-steel/composite-steel hybrids systems have demonstrated some advantages such as reduced costs. Demonstrating the potential benefits of these new sustainable materials in ocean energy converters, moorings and foundations whilst ensuring structural integrity, durability and circularity is required.
- Advance the design of sustainable tailored mooring and connection of electrical or other power transmission systems for floating or subsea wave and tidal devices. Advance combined mooring and electrical connectors or hydraulic power transmission to reduce component cost and number of connection operations, included in systems for sharing an anchor between devices in arrays. Develop novel systems for safe and quick connection/disconnection that do not require large vessels and/or diving teams.
- Instrumentation for condition monitoring and predictive maintenance of ocean energy devices. Apply recent advances in condition and structural health monitoring from other sectors to ocean energy – particularly those currently developed for offshore wind. Apply latest sensor technology to existing ocean energy deployments. Document and share experience on sensors performance and reliability, and methods for adapting them to the harsh ocean energy environment. Improve transmission or storage of data collected from sensors, such as underwater data transmission.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) in ocean energy technology development. Develop or apply advanced simulation of ocean energy systems. Use of big data with analysis of data streams, application of big data methods and machine learning, including artificial intelligence, or digital twin models for the design, installation, operation and decommissioning of ocean energy devices.
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The above list is a comprehensive list of climate tech events/forums/and conferences. But there are many more webinars, talks, and courses out there! Every week we update our curated calendar of events and accelerator deadlines exclusively for members.
