Planetary Minds shortlisted for ClimateLaunchpad 2026

Planetary Minds has been shortlisted for ClimateLaunchpad 2026 and will now progress to the UK National Final on 10 August.

This is a major step for the platform.

ClimateLaunchpad is recognised as the world’s largest green business ideas competition, supporting early-stage climate entrepreneurs across the world. Since launching in 2014, the programme has helped thousands of teams develop ideas that can contribute to climate action, resilience and environmental innovation.

For Planetary Minds, being selected is more than a competition milestone. It is an opportunity to be part of a global climate innovation community, shaped by people and organisations working on some of the most urgent climate and nature challenges of our time.

“We are incredibly proud that Planetary Minds has been shortlisted for ClimateLaunchpad 2026. To be part of this competition, alongside other brilliant founders and climate-focused ideas, means a huge amount to the whole Planetary Minds team. We are still early in our journey, but this gives us the chance to test the platform, learn from others and hopefully show how governed environmental intelligence can support better decisions for climate and nature challenges around the world.”

Paul Inman, CEO & Founder, Planetary Minds

We have now completed the ClimateLaunchpad boot camp, which brought together founders and teams working across climate-related sectors. The process challenged us to sharpen the way we explain Planetary Minds, test our assumptions and think more clearly about how the platform can create real-world value.

That support matters. ClimateLaunchpad and Climate KIC operate in the difficult space between climate ambition and climate action. Their work is not just about ideas. It is about helping those ideas become more practical, better tested and more capable of scaling.

That is closely aligned with what Planetary Minds is trying to do.

The platform is being built to help organisations work through complex climate and nature problems by combining specialist agent debate, synthesis and human review. The aim is to support better decisions, stronger evidence and clearer routes towards practical action.

Climate and nature challenges rarely sit in one neat category. They cut across policy, finance, biodiversity, public health, infrastructure, land use, communities and implementation. Planetary Minds exists because solving those problems requires more than isolated expertise. It requires better ways to bring knowledge together, challenge it and turn it into something useful.

Being shortlisted for ClimateLaunchpad gives us the chance to test that thinking on a bigger stage. It also gives us the opportunity to connect Planetary Minds with a global network of climate innovators, mentors, partners and potential supporters.

The UK National Final on 10 August is the next step. Between now and then, we will continue refining the platform, strengthening our pitch and showing how governed environmental intelligence can support organisations working on climate and nature problems.

We are still early in the journey, but this is an important breakthrough.

ClimateLaunchpad gives Planetary Minds a chance to be seen, challenged and hopefully recognised within a global climate innovation ecosystem. For a platform built around better climate and nature decision-making, that is exactly the kind of environment we want to be part of.