The Liveability Challenge with up to $1 million prize
Award: $1,000,000
Open to: 18+*
• Up to S$1 million in funding by Temasek Foundation•
• 1-year venture building package at The Circularity Studio •
• A mentorship with Closed Loop Partners •
• A spot in TXG Sustainability Business Accelerator Program •
• and more to be unveiled •
The themes for 2020 are Urban Food Production, Circular Packaging, and Decarbonisation.
Urban Food Production
Urban farming represents an opportunity to improve food security in cities and minimise agriculture-related emissions—but still consumes a large number of resources today. We’re looking for technological solutions that will deliver a breakthrough in sustainable urban food production.
Circular Packaging
We’re looking for innovative packaging solutions to replace or reduce packaging waste made from plastic, glass, virgin/hard-to-recycle paper, or aluminum. These solutions should be useful in the retail, fashion, beauty, logistics, and food & beverage industries.
Decarbonisation
We’re looking for solutions that will enable cities to capture and use carbon in a productive, sustainable way. Key considerations include how long CO2 captured can be sequestered and kept out of the air. We’re also searching for game-changing, disruptive new solutions to decarbonise traditional sectors and processes in industries such as logistics, mobility and more.
Submitted solutions should:
- Enable the large-scale capture of atmospheric CO2
- Effectively capture, store or convert CO2 using little energy and space
- Turn captured CO2 into a viable product stream
- Be carbon negative in the overall life cycle
- Take a systems approach to carbon capture and storage/utilisation
- Demonstrate demand for outputs produced
- Drastically reduce the carbon emissions produced by industries or sectors
- Be commercially viable and scaleable
Submitted solutions should:
- Drastically reduce the resources that go into packaging
- Enable manufacturers/producers to do away with packaging altogether
- Equal the performance of conventional, unsustainable packaging and be cost competitive
- Be closed-loop: Either compostable, recyclable or bio-degradable
- Make use of renewable feedstock. The solution should consider the availability and sustainability of feedstock
Submitted solutions should:
- Produce novel food or alternative proteins
- Considerably improve nutritional quality of food over current methods of production
- Enable certain species of crops/livestock to be farmed in cities for the first time
- Reduce resource and input requirements (eg energy, water land use) for production
- Significantly increase productivity for food/nutrition production
- Result in minimal waste output and/or demonstrate circular use of waste materials
- Be scaleable
* Details may apply. See the contest website to confirm eligibility.
The Liveability Challenge official website
Source:
The Liveability Challenge
Temasek foundation