NEW YORK (April 23, 2025) – XPRIZE, the world’s leader in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges, today proudly announces the winners of its $100 million XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition, the largest global incentive competition award in history.
The four-year competition was designed to combat climate change by challenging teams around the world to develop high-quality carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions that are scalable to gigatonne level and durably and sustainably remove carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere and oceans. The winning teams, selected from 20 impressive Finalists across 11 countries, each successfully removed more than 1,000 net tonnes of CO₂ in the final year of the competition, meeting XPRIZE’s bold demonstration requirements, the first step towards scaling sustainably to remove billions of tonnes globally.
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