Scientific Awards

The Bayer Climate Award

The Bayer Climate Award was launched in 2008 as the first international climate award with a clear alignment to science and technology: the award honors pioneering solutions from science and engineering disciplines for long-term climate protection and mitigation of climate change, particularly from the following fields:

Energy related areas
Environmental science
Material science
Process technology
Agro-sciences
Biotechnology and microbiology
Geochemistry and geophysics
Polar-, ocean- and costal research
Physical chemistry and atmospheric research

Candidates from the economic sciences can be considered if their work offers important solutions to protect the climate, or pioneering strategies to mitigate climate change, or extraordinary solution-oriented ideas to adapt to changing climate conditions.

The Bayer Climate Award carries a prize money of €50,000 and is presented every two years.

The winners of the prize

2012	Prof. Dr. Markku Kulmala University of Helsinki, Finland News Release (PDF 30 KB) Bayer Climate Award for Markku Kulmala (4:45 Min)

2010	Prof. Dr. Peter Lemke Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and Institute for Environmental Physics of Bremen University News Release (PDF 70 KB)

2008	Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. Eberhard Jochem Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Karlsruhe News Release (PDF 72 KB)

Last updated: October 1, 2012