The Livability Challenge 2024

The Liveability Challenge is a global platform that hunts for and accelerates the launch of innovative solutions to urban challenges of the 21st century in cities in the tropics. The Challenge is Asia’s biggest prize for sustainability solutions and a key highlight in Singapore’s sustainability events calendar.

With five editions successfully concluded, Eco-Business will come together with Temasek Foundation and its vast ecosystem of partners to deliver the seventh edition in 2024 to accelerate urban transformation and deliver a significant impact.

CHALLENGE THEME #1 – CLIMATE CHANGE: We are looking for disruptive innovations that can capture and utilize carbon at scale to create products for the global market and innovations that generate cost-effective renewable energy. We are also looking for adaptative solutions that strengthen and protect our ecosystems, societies, and infrastructures from the effects of climate change.

CHALLENGE THEME 2 – FOOD & NUTRITION: We are looking for solutions that create urban, circular food production systems within agriculture, aquaculture, and alternative nutrition. We are looking for breakthrough innovations that maximize production efficiency while minimizing resource requirements to improve the key nutritions for current and changing demographics.

PRIZES: Finalists will pitch their solutions to a panel of investors at the Grand Finale for the chance to secure the grand prize of S$1 million in project funding from Temasek Foundation for each track.

While teams may be based anywhere in the world, the proposed project must be applicable to Singapore or Southeast Asia (for nature-based solutions).