Deadline 24 November 2025
The Nature Intelligence for Business Grand Challenge seeks audacious yet practical innovations that empower SMEs to overcome critical resource, knowledge, infrastructure, and capacity constraints to effectively identify and assess their nature-related issues consistent with the TNFD LEAP approach. Solutions should streamline SMEs’ processes for identifying and evaluating nature-related dependencies and impacts. Solutions should be forward-looking with the potential to help facilitate SMEs’ integration into larger corporations’ nature-related value-chain reporting obligations.
Who can apply? The Nature Intelligence for Business Grand Challenge is a global initiative designed to unlock nature-related assessments for small and medium enterprises worldwide. Any individual of at least 18 years of age or organization, business, university, association, and/or civil society group. Governments at any level are not eligible to apply.
The central focus is to advance innovations that make nature-related assessments more accessible and actionable for SMEs, enabling them to understand and act on their nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities, and to meet their operational circumstances.
The Challenge seeks practical solutions that empower SMEs to overcome constraints such as limited capacity, lack of technical knowledge, language barriers, insufficient infrastructure, limited digital literacy, inadequate data, inconsistent connectivity, limited valuation of nature intelligence, and the complexity of assessments.
Solutions should be intuitive, require minimal training, be available in multiple languages, provide actionable outputs, be usable out of the box with minimal set-up, operate in low-connectivity environments, and be accessible via smart devices or open business models for broad adoption.
The Challenge incentivizes audacious yet practical tools, digital platforms, and processes that synthesize reputable nature data, harness automation, and simplify collection, management, interpretation, and reporting of nature intelligence.
A total prize pool of USD 100,000 is available, including testing stipends and development grants for finalists and winners.
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