Clima Now Spotlight is our annual call for proposals for impactful projects and innovations addressing a changing climate-related theme. The aim is to highlight and promote sustainable solutions for achieving net-zero by 2050.

Submissions go through a multi-stage process involving a jury and public participation. The process culminates in Pitch Night, where seven teams present their projects and have the chance to win a total of CHF 90,000 in funding. In addition, selected projects on the Wall of Fame can benefit from further support with their content.

Spotlight is supported by partner organisations and companies that wish to promote innovations for a climate-neutral Switzerland. The partnerships contribute to implementation through expertise, networks, reach, and financial and/or content-related support.

In 2025, we put one of Switzerland's most precious resources centre stage: water.

As the "water castle of Europe", Switzerland is facing profound changes – from melting glaciers and longer dry periods to shifting river flows. How can we future-proof the Swiss water cycle and foster smart, impactful solutions for the protection, management, and resilience of our water systems?

Discover the winners, partners, and all ideas:

In 2024, we wanted to revolutionize a sector that is central to the economy in the Alpine region: tourism.

How can we design a resilient economy for a net-zero future for the Alps, with tourism and mountain sports at the forefront of this change? What energy-efficient solutions are needed to drive this change?

About the winners, partners and all ideas:

Food production is responsible for one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Those emissions happen along the whole food chain and each step can be improved by innovative solutions. What can we do against that?

With Clima Now Spotlight 2023 we set the focus on our FOODprint and we called for ideas to reduce it.

About the winners and all ideas:

We were looking for artists who rethink the impact of art, use it to develop solutions against climate change and actively involve people from the population in the art project.

More about the art projects that were realized in the following year:

In the summer of 2021, we launched the first Clima Now Spotlight call. The goal was to find ideas that would motivate as many people as possible to take climate-positive action. The projects were to answer the question, "How we activate 100,000 people for the climate?"

Over 150 ideas were submitted, 30 were selected by the expert jury and seven were voted into the final by the community. On December 9, 2021, the finalists presented their ideas live on stage at the Spotlight Pitch Night at KOSMOS Zurich.