GHR’s Heatprint™ measures how much projects and portfolios slow near-term warming, so organizations can prioritize the reductions that deliver the most per dollar.

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 8, 2026 — Global Heat Reduction (GHR) has been named a winner of the 2026 Keeling Curve Prize. The prize, which carries a $50,000 cash award, is given each year by the non-profit Climate Curve to honor innovative, high-impact climate solutions worldwide. GHR was selected as one of two winners in the Finance category — and one of 10 winners overall — during a ceremony on July 1 emceed by Seth Meyers at the Paul JAS Center in Aspen, Colorado.

“A carbon footprint tells you tonnes. A Heatprint tells you warming — and warming is what we’re all actually trying to stop,” said Kiff Gallagher, Founder and CEO of Global Heat Reduction. “We’re grateful to Climate Curve for backing a better way to measure it, at a moment when the Paris targets are slipping out of reach.”

“GHR is advancing a new way to measure climate impact, one that better tracks super pollutants and helps prioritize the most effective solutions for faster climate, community, and ecosystem benefits,” said Jacquelyn Francis, Founder and Executive Director of Climate Curve.

The Keeling Curve Prize’s Finance category recognizes projects “making the economics and/or financial mechanisms work for heat-trapping gas reduction.” Most financial tools still can’t see which reductions actually slow warming, or how fast. GHR’s Heatprint closes that gap.

The Heatprint, generated through GHR’s Total Climate Accounting™ framework, translates complex climate science into actionable insights that guide investment and policy decisions, steering capital toward faster, higher-impact climate outcomes. Total Climate Accounting complements conventional carbon footprinting by capturing a broader range of climate drivers, including super pollutants like methane and black carbon that are typically undervalued or ignored. The result is clearer visibility into which actions reduce warming fastest, and which deliver the greatest reduction in warming per dollar invested.

The prize takes its name from the Keeling Curve, the graph first published by scientist Charles David Keeling in 1958 from measurements at Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory, tracking the rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) over time — the curve GHR aims to bend.

About Global Heat Reduction

Global Heat Reduction (GHR) gives companies, investors, and governments a clearer basis for climate decisions: the Heatprint™, a measure of how much an action or portfolio adds to or reduces near-term warming across CO₂, methane, black carbon, and other greenhouse gases and super pollutants. Generated through Total Climate Accounting™, the Heatprint works alongside conventional carbon accounting, adding the warming lens that carbon footprints leave out — helping capital find the actions that slow warming fastest. Learn more at heatreduction.com.

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