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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

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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

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Winning Teams

Grand Prize: BanglaShield Insurance Fund

University of Oxford

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Runner Up: Sustainable Agri-aqua Investment Fund

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

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Third Place: Pharaoh Brick Fund

Schulich School of Business, York University

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All Finalists

Aotearoa Altitude Fund 

New York University, Columbia University

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Carbon-Backed Securities

Yale University

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Fiji Future 

Western University, University of Toronto

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Green Archipelago Fund (GAF)

Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

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Harlem Renaissance Bond

Columbia University

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Moroccan Desert Truffle Fund

Mohammed VI Polytechnic University,

Columbia University

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Musharakah Fund for Solar Powered Cold Storage

Lagos Business School

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NewClear Energy Fund

Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

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Solar Irrigation Systems (SIS) Fund

EPFL, UNIL & IMD,  London School of Economics

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2025 Finalists Video

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