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BIG NEWS: Seth Meyers is joining us in Aspen to announce the 2026 Keeling Curve Prize winners and Climate Curve Prize: M...
06/04/2026

BIG NEWS: Seth Meyers is joining us in Aspen to announce the 2026 Keeling Curve Prize winners and Climate Curve Prize: Methane finalists.

Join us on July 1 at the Paul JAS Center in Aspen for an evening celebrating climate innovation, hosted by Emmy Award-winning writer for SNL, NYT Bestselling author, and host of “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” Together, we will announce the 2026 Keeling Curve Prize winners and unveil the inaugural cohort of finalists for the Climate Curve Prize: Methane, made possible through the support of Global Methane Hub.

We are also proud to partner with XPRIZE to highlight the Global Prize Network and the power of incentive prizes to accelerate climate solutions. Stay after for a free, open-to-the-public afterparty with Buckhorn Public Arts.

📍 Paul JAS Center, Aspen, Colorado
🕕 July 1, 6:00 PM 

Tickets and more details can be found at climatecurve.org/cc-awards

Special thanks to our Event Chairs spike buckley, Eric Ringsby & Annie Baldo; Hosts Michael Klein & Joan Fabry, Melony & Adam Lewis, David Newberger, and Vince Willis; Partners Chris Carr, Mimi Polk Gitlin & Alexa Lange Wesner; as well as our business sponsors , , Charles Cunniffe Architects, City of Aspen, and Pitkin County, and in-kind partners at , Snow Tequila, the , and .

As part of our 2026 Keeling Curve Prize Finalist Spotlight series, we’re proud to feature Sesame Solar, a company provin...
06/02/2026

As part of our 2026 Keeling Curve Prize Finalist Spotlight series, we’re proud to feature Sesame Solar, a company proving that clean energy can be deployed wherever it is needed, from disaster response operations, healthcare facilities, remote communities to critical infrastructure.

Reliable power is often one of the first challenges faced during emergencies and one of the biggest barriers to development in off-grid regions. Sesame Solar is addressing this challenge by replacing fossil-fuel-dependent energy systems with renewable, self-sufficient alternatives that can provide power, communications, water treatment, electric mobility, and other essential services without relying on traditional fuel supply chains.

As climate impacts intensify and energy security becomes an increasingly urgent global priority, Sesame Solar’s work demonstrates how resilient clean energy infrastructure can support both emissions reductions and community preparedness, delivering practical solutions where failure is not an option.

One last day to apply: Climate Curve is hiring a Director of Strategic Growth! 🌱Join our team to accelerate the world’s ...
05/31/2026

One last day to apply: Climate Curve is hiring a Director of Strategic Growth! 🌱

Join our team to accelerate the world’s most impactful climate solutions! We’re seeking an experienced fundraiser to lead our growth strategy, secure major gifts and partnerships, and scale our flagship programs including the Keeling Curve Prize.

📍 Remote (Roaring Fork Valley/Aspen preferred)
💰 $80,000-100,000 + benefits
📅 Apply by June 1
🔗 More details about the position and how to apply at the link in our bio

Help us connect climate innovators with the resources they need to scale globally. We welcome diverse applicants!

As part of our 2026 Keeling Curve Prize Finalist Spotlight series, we’re proud to feature The Week, an initiative challe...
05/30/2026

As part of our 2026 Keeling Curve Prize Finalist Spotlight series, we’re proud to feature The Week, an initiative challenging one of the biggest barriers to climate action: our tendency to face the crisis alone.

Many people care deeply about climate change, yet conversations about it remain surprisingly rare. Fear of conflict, uncertainty about what to say, and feelings of overwhelm often keep concerns unspoken. The Week was created around a simple premise: when people come together to share experiences, emotions, and perspectives, climate action becomes more personal, meaningful, and achievable.

Rather than treating climate change solely as a scientific or technological challenge, The Week recognises it as a human one. By creating spaces for reflection, dialogue, and collective understanding, it is helping build the social foundations needed for lasting climate action and resilience.

05/27/2026

Individual choices are only part of the solution to climate change. The weight of the crisis is shared by governments, corporations, industries, financial systems and the policies that shape the way we live, travel, eat and consume. While personal decisions such as reducing waste, conserving energy or choosing sustainable products are important, they exist within systems that often limit or influence those choices in the first place.

Efforts focused only on changing individual behaviour, without transforming the overarching systems around us, achieve only a fraction of the emissions reductions required. Real climate action demands structural change through cleaner energy systems, sustainable infrastructure, stronger environmental regulations, accountable industries and climate-conscious economic policies. People cannot be expected to carry the burden of solving a planetary crisis alone while major emitters continue business as usual.

Meaningful progress will come when personal responsibility is matched by systemic transformation at every level. Climate change is not simply the result of millions of individual failures; it is also the consequence of decades of political decisions, industrial expansion and economic systems built around fossil fuel dependence. Addressing it therefore requires collective action, institutional accountability and long-term policy change alongside individual effort.

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As part of our 2026 Keeling Curve Prize Finalist Spotlight series, we’re proud to feature KBCols Sciences — a company tr...
05/25/2026

As part of our 2026 Keeling Curve Prize Finalist Spotlight series, we’re proud to feature KBCols Sciences — a company transforming one of fashion’s most polluting processes by producing textile dyes from microbes instead of fossil-fuel-derived chemicals.

Textile coloration is responsible for significant water pollution, chemical discharge, and energy consumption across global supply chains. KBCols is rethinking this process through precision fermentation, cultivating naturally occurring microorganisms that generate vibrant color molecules in controlled bioreactors. Their bio-based dyes are designed to work within existing textile manufacturing systems, helping mills and brands adopt cleaner color solutions without major operational disruption.

Validated through industrial-scale trials in India with support from the Bureau of Energy Efficiency and UNIDO’s FLCTD programme, KBCols’ technology has demonstrated major reductions in energy use and wastewater pollution during textile dyeing. Their work offers a scalable pathway toward a fashion industry where sustainability is built into the fabrics we wear and also the colours that define them.

As part of our 2026 Keeling Curve Prize Finalist Spotlight series, we’re proud to feature Airbuild Inc — a company trans...
05/23/2026

As part of our 2026 Keeling Curve Prize Finalist Spotlight series, we’re proud to feature Airbuild Inc — a company transforming wastewater pollution into a climate solution through nutrient recovery, carbon sequestration, and regenerative agriculture.

Across the world, excess nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater continue to fuel algal blooms, degrade freshwater ecosystems, and create long-term environmental and public health challenges. Airbuild’s BioPod system addresses this by using algae-powered treatment systems to capture nutrients directly from wastewater before converting them into carbon-rich biochar fertiliser. The approach helps prevent pollution from entering rivers and lakes, while also creating a circular system where waste nutrients are returned to agriculture in a more sustainable form.

By combining wastewater treatment, carbon removal, and soil restoration into a single deployable system, Airbuild is demonstrating how climate technologies can work across sectors rather than in isolation. Their work offers a model for how communities can simultaneously address water quality, agricultural resilience, and long-term carbon storage through locally adaptable infrastructure.

05/21/2026

Some climate conversations take years, hundreds of pages, and endless panels. Others take just one meow 🐱

Jokes aside, climate action does not always have to begin with grand speeches or complicated jargon. It can start with learning to coexist more gently with the world around us, with nature, animals, and with each other. At Climate Curve, we believe the future depends as much on empathy and connection as it does on innovation.

That is why our programmes try to bring a human element into climate conversations. Through initiatives like the Constellations Fellowship and Keeling Curve Prize categories such as “Social & Cultural Pathways,” we aim to support storytellers, artists, communicators, and community leaders alongside scientists and innovators — because we believe lasting climate action is built just as much by culture, imagination, and people who can help others care enough to act as much by innovation and tech.

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As part of our 2026 Keeling Curve Prize Finalist Spotlight series, we’re proud to feature Flint — a company reimagining ...
05/20/2026

As part of our 2026 Keeling Curve Prize Finalist Spotlight series, we’re proud to feature Flint — a company reimagining how batteries are made by building energy storage systems from paper and other abundant materials rather than relying on resource-intensive minerals.

Conventional batteries often depend on extractive supply chains linked to significant environmental and social costs, from lithium and cobalt mining to energy-intensive manufacturing processes. Flint is challenging that model through a cellulose-based battery platform designed to integrate into existing manufacturing systems while avoiding many of the hazardous materials and processes associated with traditional battery production. Their work focuses on making everyday energy storage safer, more accessible, and materially lighter on the planet.

With pilot production underway and partnerships emerging across the manufacturing sector, Flint’s work represents a broader shift in climate innovation — proving that the future of clean technology is not only about performance, but also about redesigning materials, supply chains, and systems to work within planetary boundaries.

Climate Curve is hiring a Director of Strategic Growth! 🌱Join our team to accelerate the world's most impactful climate ...
05/18/2026

Climate Curve is hiring a Director of Strategic Growth! 🌱

Join our team to accelerate the world's most impactful climate solutions! We're seeking an experienced fundraiser to lead our growth strategy, secure major gifts and partnerships, and scale our flagship programs including the Keeling Curve Prize.

📍 Remote (Roaring Fork Valley/Aspen preferred)
💰 $80,000-100,000 + benefits
📅 Apply by June 1

More details about the position and how to apply at https://www.climatecurve.org/careers

Help us connect climate innovators with the resources they need to scale globally. We welcome diverse applicants!

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