Past Winners

Past Winners

Survey finds cost can hinder climate action. How can businesses close that gap?

Cost is both the biggest draw and obstacle to adopting sustainable or climate-friendly actions in Singapore, a survey suggests

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Cost among top drivers – and barriers – to climate action in S’pore, survey finds

Survey finds cost as both the biggest draw and obstacle to adopting climate-friendly actions in Singapore

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TurtleTree bags new capital to scale lactoferrin output

TurtleTree, a California-based biotech startup that produces an animal-free version of the milk protein lactoferrin, has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from global biotech firm Novonesis and Japan’s Mitsui Chemicals.

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Decarbonization startups win top prizes at The Liveability Challenge 2026 grand finale

Metha8 and YAMA, start-ups delivering scalable decarbonization solutions across diverse and hard to-abate sectors, won the top prize of S$1 million each in catalytic grant funding at The Liveability Challenge (TLC) 2026 Grand Finale.

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Singapore and French start-ups win big at The Liveability Challenge with scalable green solutions

SINGAPORE – As countries around the world strive to cut planet-warming emissions, two start-ups hope to make it easier with innovative carbon capture and clean energy technologies.

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Metha8 and YAMA win S$1M each to scale methanol-to-power and carbon capture technologies at Asia’s largest crowdsourcing platform for climate solutions

Metha8 and YAMA – start-ups delivering scalable decarbonisation solutions across diverse and hard-to-abate sectors – today won the top prize of S$1 million each in catalytic grant funding at The Liveability Challenge (TLC) 2026 Grand Finale.

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Electrified carbon capture and methanol-to-power technologies win The Liveability Challenge 2026

Firms based in France and Singapore claimed the top prizes at the ninth edition of the global innovation competition, backed by Temasek Foundation with new support from Singapore government agency A*Star.

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Despite US rollbacks, Asia’s climate innovators push ‘hard tech’ forward

In the latest episode of the Climate Tech in Asia series, we speak to Breakthrough Energy and Green COP about what the shifting geopolitical landscape means for the climate tech ecosystem in Asia.

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Innovations in passive cooling and hydrogen storage win The Liveability Challenge 2025

Ideas to passively cool cities as well as store and transport hydrogen more safely and cheaply have won the top prizes at the eighth edition of The Liveability Challenge (TLC), a global search for disruptive solutions to solve the world’s most pressing sustainability problems.

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Sustainability start-ups Krosslinker and Ayrton Energy secure S$1 million each in catalytic funding at The Liveability Challenge 2025 Grand Finale

Krosslinker and Ayrton Energy have emerged as the top winners at The Liveability Challenge (TLC) 2025 Grand Finale for their innovative solutions to drive decarbonisation and tackle climate challenges.

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TLC 2021 winner Equatic.tech (formerly SeaChange) is named a 2024 Finalist of The Earthshot Prize

Congratulations to Equatic.tech (formerly SeaChange), the 2021 winner of The Liveability Challenge, for being selected as a 2024 Finalist of The Earthshot Prize!

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We are thrilled to announce that CricketOne and GAFT  have emerged as the top winners at The Liveability Challenge 2024!

Cricket One, a Vietnamese team that makes protein from crickets, won grand prize in the food and nutrition category, and GAFT, a Dutch team that produces sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from fat and sugar won the climate grand prize. Both teams emerged top, beating a record-breaking 1,000 submissions from 100 countries.

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Congratulations to Susteon & TeOra, the winners of The Liveability Challenge 2023!

Clean fuels venture Susteon and aquaculture vaccine developer TeOra have beat a record-breaking number of over 600 entries across 82 countries to each win S$1 million in grant funding at the grand finale of The Liveability Challenge 2023.

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Social forestry project wins the Liveability Challenge 2022

Fairventures, an agroforestry management system, was awarded top prize in the annual search for solutions to the toughest sustainability challenges of our time.

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Congratulations to Fairventures Social Forestry

Congratulations to Fairventures Social Forestry for winning TLC 2022

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Carbon capture idea wins The Liveability Challenge 2021

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Congratulations to SeaChange Inc

Congratulations to SeaChange Inc for winning The Liveability Challenge 2021

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Robert Downey Jr's new green tech fund invests in The Liveability Challenge winner RWDC Industries

The Hollywood actor's new venture fund Footprint Coalition has invested an undisclosed sum in Singapore-based RWDC Industries, which won The Liveability Challenge 2018 for its biodegradable alternative to single-use plastic.

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Cow-free milk wins The Liveability Challenge 2020

A lab-grown alternative to cow's milk has won an annual search for solutions to make Southeast Asia's cities more resilient, sustainable places to live.