Submissions are open for the Oxford Saïd Global Climate Change Challenge 2025, a competition in which students and teachers from around the world are invited to join forces in combatting the climate crisis.
The Climate Change Challenge, in partnership with Saïd Business School and the University of Oxford, aims to inspire high school students and teachers to apply their innovation, creativity, and problem-solving skills to generate unique solutions to tackle climate change—whether at a local, national, or global level.
Following the success of the 2024 competition—which received over 1,000 entries from more than 58 countries—we are proud to be continuing our support for the Climate Change Challenge and its encouragement of climate education, innovation, and action.
As we mark Earth Day 2025, we are committed to educating students on climate change, as well as reducing our impact on the climate and nature from our own operations. Last year we announced our aim to reach net zero by 2050, and have detailed our progress against our other sustainability goals in our most recent Responsible Publishing Report.
The Climate Change Challenge welcomes student and teacher submissions, asking them to respond to one of five key climate change challenges:
- Air pollution: caused by industrial emissions, vehicle exhaust, and other pollutants, and can lead to respiratory problems and severe health issues
- Extreme weather events: how communities can prepare for and respond to the increasing frequency and intensity of hurricanes, droughts, and heatwaves
- Food security: climate change threatens agriculture and food production, making it harder to feed a growing population
- Water scarcity: adverse effects on water availability can lead to droughts in some regions and flooding in others
- Biodiversity: as ecosystems face unprecedented threats due to climate change, biodiversity conservation is essential to sustaining life on Earth.
Finalists from the student competition will have the opportunity to present their projects at Saïd Business School in Oxford, and the finalists of the teacher competition will present at COP30 in Brazil in November 2025. Overall winners will attend a tailored climate change programme at Saïd Business School in spring 2026.
Submissions are now open and will close at 23:59 GMT on 30 June 2025. You can find out more information and enter the Climate Change Challenge here.
