Climate Change Challenge

Oxford Saïd Climate Change Challenge 2025
Competition open 3 March - 30 June

Resources and insights
For students and educators

Future Climate Innovators Summer School
On campus, in Oxford for 16-18 year old innovators

With ongoing scenes of severe disruption across the world caused by climate change, there has never been a more urgent
time to inspire and mobilise the next generation of leaders, change makers
and innovators.

Soumitra Dutta

Peter Moores Dean and Professor of Management, Saïd Business School

During the world's hottest summer ever recorded (2023), together with Burjeel Holdings we launched the annual Oxford Saïd Climate Change Challenge - a global initiative aimed at empowering high school students and teachers to become catalysts for change in the fight against climate change.

The competition, now in it's third year, invites students to showcase their innovative solutions and encourages teachers to create impactful lesson plans, fostering environmental awareness and sustainability.

Enter the 2025 competition

Last year's challenge in numbers

5

Challenges

1,008

Competition entries

58

Countries represented

23

Judges

The 2024 competition winners were announced at COP29, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku.

View the winning student teams

View the winning teachers

Resources and insights

We believe that business and business education have a leading role to play in delivering a sustainable economic future. Beyond our Climate Change Challenge and Summer School we are committed to equipping all our future innovators and leaders, with the tools and understanding to build a strong, regenerative and just economic system.

Embedded in the heart of the world-leading, multi-disciplinary University of Oxford, we are surrounded by leading academics, experts, alumni and partners who are coming up with insightful, thought-provoking and inspirational research and innovations to develop and share new paths towards sustainable business.

You can find insights and tools to tackle the climate crisis in our resources hub.

Future Climate Innovators Summer School

The three winning student teams attended a specially-curated two-week Future Climate Innovators Summer School at Oxford University in August 2024. The winner in the teacher’s category attended an Executive Education course at Oxford in May 2024, while the runners-up will be pursuing a 6-week long Oxford Climate Emergency Programme online beginning June 2024.

It is your voice which needs to be raised... without your voices, we rest our understanding too much on the past. This needs to change.

Juliane Reinecke

Professor of Management Studies and Summer School Programme Sponsor

A summer school like no other

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Climate Summer School

Alongside a global cohort of 16-18 year olds, take on the role of an innovator, confront the pressing climate issues head-on, and shape a sustainable future.