Scientific awards

The Bayer Climate Award

The Bayer Climate Award, the first international prize of its kind, is presented to honor groundbreaking contributions to fundamental research in climate science. It is an integral element of the Bayer Climate Program.

The Bayer Climate Award was launched in 2008 as the fi rst international award of its kind: The foundation presents the Award to scientists from the natural sciences and engineering disciplines for pioneering research achievements that offer concrete scientific and technical solutions for long-term climate protection and dealing with climate change.

The current focus is on:

Energy related areas and environmental science,
Material science and process technology,
Agro-science, plant ecology, 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

2010	Prof. Dr. Peter Lemke Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and Institute for Environmental Physics of Bremen University Press Kit

2009	Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. Eberhard Jochem Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Karlsruhe Press Informationen (PDF 72 KB)

Last updated: January 13, 2012