Frontiers Planet Prize: Science for a Sustainable Planet

The International Science Council is proud to partner with the Frontiers Planet Prize in recognizing and rewarding exceptional scientists working in sustainability science.

Background

The Frontiers Research Foundation has launched the Planet Prize to recognize and reward exceptional scientists. Three prizes worth a total of CHF 3 million (~USD $3.2m) are awarded to the world’s most innovative sustainability scientists from any domain who are able to offer globally scalable solutions which protect and restore planetary health.

The Nine Planetary Boundaries

The submitted research must offer solutions addressing at least one of the nine planetary boundaries and have the potential for measurable global impact. Sustainability scientists have identified nine planetary boundaries that we cannot cross without risking the collapse of life on Earth as we know it. Johan Rockström and Owen Gaffney have described these boundaries in their book Breaking Boundaries, as well as on the website of the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Action is needed now to prevent us from crossing these boundaries and, where we have already transgressed them, to guide a safe and just transformation of the world back to within Planetary Boundaries.

The Planet Prize will honour research published in established peer-reviewed scientific journals in the past two calendar years (date of acceptance: 1 November 2021 to 31 October 2023) that has the greatest potential to help keep the Earth system within planetary boundaries. All submitted research must be in English.

Scientists who wish to participate in the prize do so through their research institution or university who act as a National Nominating Body (NNB). NNBs consider each application and send up to three nominations.

Application deadline: 1 November 2025.