2026 Climate Solutions Prize Festival

Tracks

JUNE 08, 2026 to JUNE 09, 2026

Marché Bonsecours305 De la Commune Street East, Montréal (QC) CA H2Y 1H2

H20

H20

H2O
Securing water systems for a climate-stressed world.

The H2O track examines global water systems as critical climate infrastructure, spanning access, treatment, reuse, resilience, and watershed management. As climate volatility places growing strain on water systems worldwide, this track focuses on solutions that can operate across jurisdictions, integrate with existing infrastructure, and scale responsibly.

Discussions are grounded in implementation realities: governance, regulation, financing, and long-term system stewardship. The emphasis is on moving from fragmented pilots to resilient, integrated water systems that can withstand climate stress.

ENERGY & POWER

ENERGY & POWER

ENERGY & POWER
Accelerating the energy transition from innovation to system-scale delivery

The Energy & Power track focuses on solutions reshaping how energy is generated, stored, transmitted, and governed at scale, across electricity systems, grids, storage, hydrogen, and industrial power.

As investment accelerates and policy frameworks evolve, this track centres on a critical question: what does it take to move from promising innovation to dependable, system-level deployment? Conversations prioritize real-world constraints including regulation, infrastructure readiness, financing structures, and integration into existing energy systems.

This track is built for those responsible for making the energy transition work: beyond pilots, projections, and policy intent.

AGTECH

AGTECH

AGTECH
Scaling climate-smart agriculture and food systems from field to market.

The AgTech track focuses on agricultural and food system innovations that reduce emissions, enhance resilience, and protect food security worldwide, while remaining viable for farmers, supply chains, markets, and regulators.

Topics span soil health, input optimization, land use, AI and data-driven decision tools, precision agriculture, and climate-smart production systems. With food systems responsible for roughly one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions, the stakes for accelerating adoption are high.

Conversations emphasize the challenge of transition: how proven innovations move from research trials into widespread adoption across regions with differing economic, environmental, and regulatory conditions, and what financing, policy alignment, and market incentives are needed to close the gap.

NATURE & BIODIVERSITY TECH

NATURE & BIODIVERSITY TECH

NATURE & BIODIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY
Scaling technologies that protect, restore, and sustain natural ecosystems.

The Nature & Biodiversity Technology track explores the technologies, including AI, remote sensing, and monitoring tools, and governance approaches that support ecosystem protection, restoration, and long-term resilience.

Discussions focus on how nature-based solutions can be designed and deployed responsibly at scale, avoiding fragmentation, ensuring credibility across carbon markets, biodiversity frameworks, and jurisdictions. The track prioritizes evidence-driven approaches that integrate science, policy, and real-world delivery.

Sessions examine what it takes to build nature-based solutions that endure beyond individual project boundaries, and meet the verification and accountability standards that investors and policymakers increasingly demand.

BUILT ENVIRONMENT

BUILT ENVIRONMENT

BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Decarbonizing cities and construction through codes, capital, and implementation.

The Built Environment track focuses on solutions that can decarbonize cities and construction systems while improving resilience and performance, across buildings, materials, retrofits, infrastructure, and the full construction value chain.

The built environment doesn't change through ideas alone. It changes through codes, procurement frameworks, risk models, financing structures, and implementation capacity. This track centres on what it takes to move from innovation to adoption without compromising safety, affordability, or accountability. Sessions examine what actually unlocks scale: permitting and policy alignment, demand signals, owner and developer decision-making, workforce readiness, and the real constraints of construction timelines and capital cycles.

RESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

RESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

RESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Scaling breakthroughs in materials, critical minerals, and circular systems into standard industrial practice.

Advances in materials science, critical mineral supply chains, green chemistry, and industrial processes are enabling circular systems, reducing carbon intensity across sectors, and supporting a clean, resilient economy.

The Resource Technology track focuses on what it takes to translate technical breakthroughs into real-world adoption, across manufacturing, supply chains, regulation, and market demand. Conversations are grounded in scalability, industrial integration, and the procurement and policy realities that determine whether circular systems move from ambition to standard practice.

As demand for clean technologies drives unprecedented pressure on global mineral supply chains, this track also addresses the strategic importance of responsible sourcing and supply chain resilience in the clean energy transition.

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