Quarantine Stories: Fighting Climate Change During Lockdown
Channel: XPRIZE
Date: 2020-06-26

10 teams remain in the $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, a global competition that started in 2015 in a quest to develop breakthrough technologies to convert CO2 emissions into everyday products. 

In March 2020, the finalists were rushing to test centers to perfect their technologies. Then, COVID-19 swept the world. Nations shut down. Economies stopped. But climate change didn’t stop. So, how did these teams and heroes keep fighting climate change while on lockdown?


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XPRIZE is an educational (501c3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity, thereby inspiring the formation of new industries and the revitalization of markets that are currently stuck due to existing failures or a commonly held belief that a solution is not possible. XPRIZE addresses the world's Grand Challenges by creating and managing large-scale, high-profile, incentivized prize competitions that stimulate investment in research and development worth far more than the prize itself. It motivates and inspires brilliant innovators from all disciplines to leverage their intellectual and financial capital.

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