May 7, 2025
The Liveability Challenge Grand Finale 2025
Park Royal Collection Marina Bay Singapore, Garden Ballroom | Hybrid
1400hrs - 1800hrs SGT (GMT +8)
About this Event
Global temperatures are reaching dangerously new highs year after year, with 2024 witnessing unprecedented heat and the hottest months ever recorded. Achieving our climate targets - set under the Paris Agreement in 2015 - has never been more urgent, as societies and ecosystems face escalating threats from rising heat, extreme weather events and ecological deterioration.
As the rapid rise of greenhouse gas emissions pushes us closer to critical tipping points, the economic costs of inaction are also mounting. We need to take collective action to reach our target of reducing emissions by 43 percent by 2030 and achieving net zero by 2050. Achieving this requires coordinated efforts across society, including enabling regulatory frameworks, strategic investments and the large-scale deployment of innovative technologies.
The Liveability Challenge (TLC) returns for the eighth edition in 2025, seeking groundbreaking climate solutions from across the world that push the boundaries of innovation. This year, TLC has selected eight finalists from more than 1,200 submissions across the world from 100 countries in two tracks: Decarbonisation and Cool Earth.
Join us for the TLC Grand Finale on 7th May as part of Ecosperity Week in Singapore, where more than S$2 million in funding will be awarded, with two grand winners receiving a S$1 million grant each (across either any themes) along with other investment prizes.
Find out all about the eight finalists in our press release.
Witness the 2025 finalists pitch live before a panel of distinguished judges and investors, discover the next generation of transformative technologies, and gain unprecedented access to our global community of investors, corporates, entrepreneurs and ecosystem leaders.
Register here to join us in person or virtually, for an inspiring afternoon of innovation and impact.
Presenter
Strategic Partners
Tech For Good Partner
Amplifier Partners
Agenda
1:30 pm
Registrations
2:30 pm
Welcome remarks
2:40 pm
TLC 2025 Grand Finale pitches & judges Q&A
4:25 pm
Winner’s Spotlight
4:30 pm
Innovation dialogue – From testbed to trailblazer: in search of the X factor in climate tech
From experimental stages to impactful, real-world applications, the journey of most climate tech innovations today relies on a complex combination of factors from commercial viability and access to funding. But is there a distinct ‘X factor’ that tips the scales of success in favour of promising climate technologies today amid the uncertain macroeconomic outlook?
In 2024, global investment in private climate tech ventures totalled US$92 billion as decarbonisation efforts gained momentum, with key growth areas including clean energy, low- carbon mobility and carbon capture attracting funding.
However, these investments are skewed towards large-scale investments, making it challenging for smaller and early-stage ventures to achieve commercial scale and economic viability.
This raises a critical question – how can we identify the elusive breakthroughs that enable climate technologies to evolve beyond prototypes and pilot projects into game-changing solutions that address pressing climate challenges?
Together, we will examine key challenges and critical success factors – including technological feasibility, market readiness, policy support and societal acceptance – that empower climate technologies to transition from promising concepts to trailblazing solutions capable of driving meaningful climate action.
Dr Dazril Phua
Chief Operating Officer, Nandina REM
Magdalene Loh
Director, Urban Solutions & Sustainability, Enterprise Singapore
Mark Gainsborough
Chairman, Seatrium
Jessica Cheam
Founder and Managing Director, Eco-Business
5:10 pm
Judges feedback
5:20 pm
Unveiling of winners
5:40 pm
Closing remarks
5:45 pm
Networking cocktails
Agenda
1:30 pm
Registrations
2:30 pm
Welcome remarks
2:40 pm
TLC 2025 Grand Finale pitches & judges Q&A
4:25 pm
Winner’s Spotlight
4:30 pm
Innovation dialogue – From testbed to trailblazer: in search of the X factor in climate tech
From experimental stages to impactful, real-world applications, the journey of most climate tech innovations today relies on a complex combination of factors from commercial viability and access to funding. But is there a distinct ‘X factor’ that tips the scales of success in favour of promising climate technologies today amid the uncertain macroeconomic outlook?
In 2024, global investment in private climate tech ventures totalled US$92 billion as decarbonisation efforts gained momentum, with key growth areas including clean energy, low- carbon mobility and carbon capture attracting funding.
However, these investments are skewed towards large-scale investments, making it challenging for smaller and early-stage ventures to achieve commercial scale and economic viability.
This raises a critical question – how can we identify the elusive breakthroughs that enable climate technologies to evolve beyond prototypes and pilot projects into game-changing solutions that address pressing climate challenges?
Together, we will examine key challenges and critical success factors – including technological feasibility, market readiness, policy support and societal acceptance – that empower climate technologies to transition from promising concepts to trailblazing solutions capable of driving meaningful climate action.
5:10 pm
Judges feedback
5:20 pm
Unveiling of winners
5:40 pm
Closing remarks
5:45 pm
Networking cocktails
Presenter
Temasek Foundation
Temasek Foundation supports a diverse range of programmes that uplift lives and communities in Singapore and beyond. Temasek Foundation’s programmes are made possible through philanthropic endowments gifted by Temasek, as well as gifts and other contributions from other donors. These programmes strive towards achieving positive outcomes for individuals and communities now, and for generations to come. Collectively, Temasek Foundation’s programmes strengthen social resilience, foster international exchange and regional capabilities, advance science, and protect the planet.
For more information, visit www.temasekfoundation.org.sg.
Strategic Partners
Octave Wellbeing Economy Fund is a strategic impact investment fund that is part of the IMC Pan Asia Alliance Group. The fund is empowered with the mandate to invest in start-ups and funds with the potential to drive positive impact in the agriculture and food tech space, well-being and sustainability. The Wellbeing Economy Fund focuses on early-stage direct investments and venture funds that operate within these specific verticals, seeking potential synergies across the group's businesses units and external businesses. The fund takes an active relationship as an investor with the view of shaping the future of impact investments and the stewarding of humanity towards the era of well-being and sustainability.
Octave Wellbeing Economy Fund
With the clarity of intent and purpose, we chase impact and deliver performance. We maximize our efforts on decarbonization, investing in entrepreneurs whose exceptional innovations decarbonizes the world. Our support enables entrepreneurs to achieve what is better for planet Earth.
Trirec
Tech For Good Partner
In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began offering IT infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now commonly known as cloud computing. One of the key benefits of cloud computing is the opportunity to replace up-front capital infrastructure expenses with low variable costs that scale with your business. With the Cloud, businesses no longer need to plan for and procure servers and other IT infrastructure weeks or months in advance. Instead, they can instantly spin up hundreds or thousands of servers in minutes and deliver results faster.
Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Brazil, Singapore, Japan, and Australia.
AWS
Amplifier Partners
