Application Deadline: Monday, December 15, 2025, 11:59 PM ET.
A global call for solutions to unlock nature-related assessments for small and medium sized enterprises worldwide. $100,000+ in funding & incentives.
Why a Grand Challenge for Nature Intelligence?
To drive success and growth, businesses of every size around the globe depend on and interact with nature—for natural resources like water and productive soils, ecosystem services like pollination, or as exposure to risks like flooding or wildfires. Business resilience relies on nature’s resilience, yet nature is deteriorating globally and biodiversity is declining faster than at any time in human history. Every business should aim to better manage its interactions with nature—for the well-being of the planet, but also as a winning business strategy.
What We’re Looking For:
The Mission: Create solutions that enable small and medium-sized enterprises around the world to access nature intelligence and better understand their nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities.
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We need breakthrough solutions and tools that help small businesses understand and integrate nature into decision-making—something that’s currently too expensive and complex for many companies to do. The solutions should be simple enough for a coffee grower in rural Kenya or a textile manufacturer in Bangladesh to use, generate location-specific insights and practical business advice, and support nature-related reporting when their customers do require it as it becomes more mainstream in business practice.
These solutions should leverage new data tools and technologies and serve users who may not be tech-savvy or have no in-house expertise on environmental issues. The goal is to make nature intelligence accessible and actionable for every business in every sector worldwide.
Apply for the Challenge
The Nature Intelligence for Business Grand Challenge seeks audacious yet practical innovations that empower SMEs to overcome critical resource, knowledge, infrastructure, and capacity constraints to effectively identify and assess their nature-related issues consistent with the TNFD LEAP approach. Solutions should streamline SMEs’ processes for identifying and evaluating nature-related dependencies and impacts. Solutions should be forward looking with the potential to help facilitate SMEs’ integration into larger corporations’ nature-related value-chain reporting obligations.
Learn more about eligibility, terms of participation, and what we’re looking for in the Innovator Handbook.
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