Kickstarting Innovation
Accelerating new solutions for low-carbon, future-ready buildings
The Belimo Climate Foundation recognizes and supports innovative solutions that accelerate the decarbonization and climate readiness of buildings. By empowering entrepreneurs, researchers, and changemakers, we help develop, test, and scale new approaches that reduce emissions, strengthen resilience, and improve building performance. We support ventures, pilots, and studies with the potential to create lasting impact across the built environment.
What we support
We support novel and innovative solutions that accelerate the transition to low-carbon, future-ready buildings including:
Ventures
Pilots
Studies
Beyond funding, we help innovators access expertise, networks, partners, and opportunities to test and scale their solutions in real-world settings.
We focus on innovations with a practical, implentation-oriented approach. They should:
Reduce energy use and carbon emissions in existing buildings.
Enable more effective renovation and retrofit solutions.
Advance circularity, resource efficiency and long-term building performance.
Strengthen resilience to heat, extreme weather and other climate-related challenges.
Improve health, comfort and wellbeing for building occupants.
Address barriers to implementation through new business models, processes, digital tools or collaborative approaches.
Build the skills and capabilities needed to accelerate the transition of the building sector.
Funding criteria
When evaluating initiatives, we look for those that:
Deliver measurable climate impact.
Address practical implemetation.
Accelerate the transformation of existing buildings.
Generate transferable insights for the wider building sector.
Can be replicated and scaled beyond a single project.
Strengthen collaboration and capacity across the ecosystem.
Clearly benefit from Belimo Climate Foundation support.
Outstanding innovations have the opportunity to receive the Belimo Climate Foundation Award.
