Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund
Grants awarded June 2026
Carbizon (www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/harun-niron_23841/research/ ) is a Belgian startup project based at the University of Antwerp. It proposes a high-intensity enhanced rock weathering (ERW) two-year field test in Muranga’a County in central Kenya. The project, to be carried out on a test farm, will integrate crushed basalt with biochar and organic matter to create a functional soil …
Hourglass Climate (hourglassclimate.org) is a U.S. non-profit organization dedicated to independent science for the responsible development of marine carbon dioxide removal. CIEIF’s grant will aid Hourglass’s development of a potential field test to evaluate the carbon removal efficiency and environmental safety of mineral-based Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) in New Zealand. The project would involve the …
Institute for Glacier Stewardship (IFGS; www.icepreservation.org), is a U.S. based nonprofit group focused on potential interventions in glaciers aimed at slowing their global warming-driven melting and the resulting sea level rise. The ultimate goal, several years at least away, will be Antarctica’s glaciers, but IFGS first proposes undertaking a pilot before scaling to the harshest …