A book proposal about the pioneering work of climate technology entrepreneurs has won this year’s Bracken Bower Prize.

Âriel de Fauconberg received the £15,000 award at a ceremony on December 5 for her book idea, entitled Before the Dawn: Racing to net zero on the front lines of climate innovation.

De Fauconberg is a Gates Cambridge scholar and a PhD student in her penultimate year at Cambridge university, as well as co-founder and research director of the Good Data Initiative, a youth-led think-tank.