CIEIF announces grant recipients and March 15 deadline for 2026 applications

[Renaud de RICHTER]

October 6, 2025 – The Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund (CIEIF; https://cieif.org/ ) is pleased to announce completion of its fourth round of US$ 75,000 grants towards environmental impact analysis for climate restoration projects.  The recipients are:  

Acacia Impact Innovation (acacia-ii.com) and HighTechXL (www.hightechxl.com) which are, respectively, a Dutch company and a Dutch deep-tech accelerator program working jointly on a technological innovation to achieve large-scale removal of atmospheric methane. 

Global Ocean Health (www.globaloceanhealth.org ) is a U.S. NGO based in Washington State that is leading stakeholder outreach and social impact assessment on behalf of marine science researchers working within the consortium Exploring Ocean Iron Solutions (ExOIS, oceaniron.org), based at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts. ExOIS is seeking to comprehensively assess the CO2 sequestration technique known as ocean iron fertilization (OIF) in the North Pacific. 

SeaO2 (www.seao2.com) is a Netherlands-based company developing new technologies to achieve scalable Direct Ocean Carbon Capture (DOCC). SeaO2 proposes Europe’s first commercially developed, standalone DOCC field test, in Scheveningen Harbor. 

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 March 15, 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 eligibility requirements are at: cieif.org/what-we-do and cieif.org/guidelines-for-grant-applicants/.