Contests

Voice your opinion on proposed 2012 activities

Contribute to a discussion on our new approach for organizing activities in 2012

View the taxonomy that will be used to break up the large, complex problem of climate change into sub-problems

UN and Congressional briefings, Jan 24-25

Please read the press release on the briefings by the 2011 contest winners to the United Nations and United States Congress. 

Thank you to the judges

Our sincere gratitude goes to the judges who carefully reviewed this year's contest entries.

Shoibal Chakravarty, Research Associate, Princeton University Environmental Institute
David Goldston, Director of Government Affairs, Natural Resources Defense Council
Martin Heimann, Director, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
William Moomaw, Director, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Susan Solomon, Senior Scientist Emerita, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Thanks to the Climate CoLab community

We thank the winners and the finalists for their outstanding work, as well the 4 semifinalists and 50+ other members who contributed proposals during the contest.

We are also grateful to all members of the Climate CoLab for their enthusiastic comments and voting. More than 1750 votes were cast between November 4 and 15, 2011.  

2011 contest in review

The 2011 Climate CoLab contest focused on the green economy, one of the two key themes of the United Nations Rio+20 Conference next year. The 2011 contest question was:

How should the 21st century economy evolve, bearing in mind the risks of climate change?

We solicited proposals that addressed this question at the global and national levels.  Judges’ Choice and Popular Choice Winners were chosen. The Climate CoLab will sponsor one representative from each winning team to present at briefings on Capitol Hill in Washington and at the United Nations in New York.  The winning proposals will also be featured on TreeHugger.com. 

Contest Archives

2010
Winning proposals and the briefings at the UN and U.S. Congress. List of the finalists and of the entries.

2009
White paper to the United Nations.