2026 Sustainable Investing Challenge
The 2026 Challenge finals were held in London, UK. 618 students from 65 countries submitted ideas, and their inspiring perseverance and innovation is evident in the work of the 12 final teams, which you can find below.
2026
Grand Prize
$10,000
AAA Fund
This blended finance credit facility is designed to restore Indonesia's degraded coastal mangrove ponds through community cooperatives, generating returns from blue carbon credits and aggregated silvofishery shrimp sales.
The University of Chicago, Duke University
2026
Runner Up
$5,000
GeoServe
Using a Build-Own-Transfer model, this multi-stage capital platform is designed to de-risk and scale district-level geothermal heating and cooling infrastructure for energy-insecure low-income communities in the US.
Duke University
2026
Third Place
$2,500
Amazonia Yield Bond
Aiming to break the cycle of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, this securitization is structured to finance agroforestry by aggregating asset-backed loans to smallholder agricultural cooperatives and generating returns from carbon credits and sustainable timber.
Imperial College London
