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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. 
Bayer Climate AwardThe Group-wide climate protection initiative launched in 2007 is aimed at driving new solutions for climate protection and addressing climate change. Bayer also strives to promote social policy dialogue about climate change and create incentives for scientific innovations in this area outside the company as well.
 
The Bayer Climate Award carries a sum of EUR 50,000 and is presented at two-year intervals from 2008. 
 
The award honors fundamental research in scientific and technical disciplines that contributes to explaining and limiting climate change, as well as coping with its effects, through pioneering solutions. 
The current focus is on:
  • Energy and Environmental Sciences
  • Material Sciences and Process Engineering
  • Biotechnology, Agricultural Sciences, and Microbiology
  • Polar, Sea and Coastal Research, Oceanography
  • Physical/chemical Atmosphere Research
  • Geochemistry and Geophysics
  • Meterology
The winners of the prize
2009 Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. Eberhard Jochem
Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Karlsruhe
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Bayer honors climate researcher
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