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| Various prizes and competitions are available for inventions or research which helps sustainability or tackles poverty.
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| ==Prizes==
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| The {{WP|Virgin Earth Challenge}} announced by Richard Branson offers a prize of USD 25 million (EUR19.2 million at the time of offer) to any individual to come up with a commercially viable system for removing at least 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year from the Earth's atmosphere.
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| ==Awards==
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| *{{WP|Rolex Award}}
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| *{{WP|United States National Academy of Engineering}} - ''no Wikipedia article yet.'' From the {{WP|United States National Academy of Engineering}}
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| ==Other prizes and competitions==
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| These awards are general in scope rather than specifically about sustainability or poverty, but winners do often cover these issues:
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| *{{WP|MIT IDEAS Competition}}
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| *{{WP|Lemelson-MIT Student Prize}}
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| *See also Wikipedia's {{WP|Category:Awards}}
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