CBAS is supporting the Frontiers Planet Prize, an initiative of the Frontiers Research Foundation (hereafter referred to as 'The Foundation'), as a National Nominating Body.
Through this initiative, the Foundation hopes to sponsor a new international competition that will award three prizes of CHF 1 million each for research that has the greatest potential global impact on one or more of the following nine planetary research areas:
1. Climate change
2. Loss of biosphere integrity
3. Biogeochemical flows
4. Ocean acidification
5. Stratospheric ozone layer
6. Atmospheric aerosol loading
7. Land use change
8. Overuse of freshwater
9. Novel entities
The Frontiers Planet Prize aims to support the necessary research breakthroughs in sustainability science – the breakthroughs that will accelerate the solutions needed to restore the environment and see a maintained healthy planet. The Prize is being launched in context of the idea that humans, a major driver of global change, need to return the Earth from the brink of crossing irreversible boundaries to a state of balanced coexistence. The international scientific community is responding, and the role of research and the application of science will be crucial to not only our health, but also the health of the planet.
CBAS is therefore inviting sustainability scientists to compete for the Prize.
The Prize will recognize the best research published in established scientific journals, with robust peer-review and transparent publication procedures, within the past 2 years. The CHF 1 million prize will be given to the host institutions of each winning researcher to advance the scientist's breakthrough research.
All interested research are requested to submit the “Scientist Application Form” before the 29th of October 2023 to cooperation@cbas.ac.cn. For more information regarding the prize please visit the Frontiers Planet Prize website (https://www.frontiersplanetprize.org/).
The National Champions will be announced on Earth Day 2024 (22nd April) The International Champions will be announced at the Award Ceremony taking place in June 2024 in Switzerland.