2025 Sustainable Investing Challenge
The 2025 Challenge finals were held in London, UK. 545 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.
2025
Grand Prize
$10,000
BanglaShield Insurance Fund
With climate-related disasters disproportionately impacting low-income households in Bangladesh,
this proposal blends concessional loans and parametric insurance to provide affordable flood resilience financing.
University of Oxford
2025
Runner Up
$5,000
Sustainable Agri-aqua Investment Fund
To address groundwater depletion in Punjab, this blended capital model would align micro-irrigation financing with pooled carbon credits and government-backed repayments linked to energy savings, crop diversification through the transition of small farmers to water-efficient practices.
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
2025
Third Place
$2,500
Pharaoh Brick Fund
Repurposing Egypt’s rice straw and demolition waste into low-carbon bricks, this fund would reduce pollution and landfill waste while promoting sustainable construction using a sukuk-based financing structure with revenues from brick sales, carbon credits, and government incentives.
Schulich School of Business,
York University
Winning Teams
Runner Up: Sustainable Agri-aqua Investment Fund
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Third Place: Pharaoh Brick Fund
Schulich School of Business, York University
All Finalists
Green Archipelago Fund (GAF)
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Moroccan Desert Truffle Fund
Mohammed VI Polytechnic University,
Columbia University
Solar Irrigation Systems (SIS) Fund
EPFL, UNIL & IMD, London School of Economics