CIEIF announces three grant recipients and December 1 deadline for 2026 applications
Renaud de RICHTER
June 1, 2026 – The Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund (CIEIF; https://cieif.org/ ) is pleased to announce completion of its fifth round of US$75,000 grants towards environmental impact analysis for climate restoration projects.
The recipients are:
Carbizon (www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/harun-niron_23841/research/) is a Belgian startup project based at the University of Antwerp. It proposes a high-intensity enhanced rock weathering (ERW) two-year field test in Muranga’a County in central Kenya, integrating crushed basalt with biochar and organic matter to create a functional soil building system while simultaneously quantifying durable inorganic carbon removal.
Hourglass Climate (www.hourglassclimate.org) is a U.S. non-profit organization dedicated to independent science for the responsible development of marine carbon dioxide removal. CIEIF’s grant will aid Hourglass’s development of a potential field test to evaluate the carbon removal efficiency and environmental safety of mineral-based Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) in New Zealand. The project would involve the nearshore release of approximately 2,000 tons of finely ground, locally-sourced rock.
Institute for Glacier Stewardship (IFGS; www.icepreservation.org) is a U.S. based nonprofit group focused on potential interventions in glaciers aimed at slowing their global warming-driven melting and the resulting sea level rise. The ultimate goal, several years at least away, will be Antarctica’s glaciers, but IFGS first proposes undertaking a pilot field test in Yakutat, Alaska. Funding provided by CIEIF will support an independent environmental impact assessment of the proposed basal anchoring intervention — the removing of subglacial water to increase basal friction and slow glacier flow.
More details about all three projects are at cieif.org/current-grants.
CIEIF also is announcing another round of three grants with award amounts of $75,000 each. The deadline for applications is December 1, 2026. Innovative climate intervention projects worldwide in need of funding for focused environmental impact assessment, impact modeling, and/or public-stakeholder outreach are encouraged to apply. Details of the strict eligibility requirements are at: cieif.org/what-we-do and cieif.org/guidelines-for-grant-applicants/ .
Renaud de RICHTER
In a new episode of the Climate Emergency Forum (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkZ7kAfd3jg=), the Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund (CIEIF; https://cieif.org/) is introduced.
CIEIF is a unique family-funded initiative that supports climate intervention field tests by financing rigorous environmental impact assessment and stakeholder outreach.
Fund manager and environmental attorney Peter Jenkins and science advisor Dr. Renaud de Richter explain how the fund focuses on projects with real-world field trials that can scale to meaningful climate benefits, rather than basic research or conventional adaptation and clean energy efforts.
This video was recorded on July 22nd, 2026, and published on July 26th, 2026.
https://www.climateemergencyforum.org/_video/2026-07-26-climate-intervention-funding-impact-assessments.html