The Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund (CIEIF), an initiative created to provide streamlined, non-bureaucratic funding for field-test-ready climate intervention, is currently accepting applications for a new funding opportunity.
Following two successfully completed funding rounds, one in December 2023 and a second one in July 2024, the CIEIF is now accepting proposals for a third funding call, open to applications until December 1, 2024.
With this call, the Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund is asking applicants to lay out a spending plan, demonstrating how they would allocate $75,000 in their proposed climate intervention field test, dealing with Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), predictive impact modeling, and/or engagement efforts with potentially impacted stakeholders.
The fund clarifies that their support is intended to back climate interventions that are field-test-ready, and at this time, their resources won’t be used to support projects working on stratospheric (or higher) Solar Radiation Management (SRM), Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS), and Direct Air Capture (DAC) technologies.
Applicants are required to meet various criteria in their proposals, describing the research that confirms their field-test readiness, identifying economic, social, and public health considerations that might pose a challenge to the project agenda, and indicating the government permits and approvals needed for further action.
Proposals received through this call will be reviewed by the CIEIF’s three-person part-time staff, including Fund Manager Peter T. Jenkins, science advisor Dr. Renaud de Richter, and legal advisor John Fitzgerald.
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After reviewing the applications, the CIEIF staff will announce their grant decisions by January 15, 2025.
The selected climate interventions will initially receive one-third of the funding, while the remaining amount will be provided in two more installments, to be delivered on a benchmark basis.
The funding for the CIEIF is provided by the private Peter Jenkins family-supported fund based in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
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