Aga Khan University celebrates Student Innovation at Concluding Ceremony of President’s Challenge for Climate Solutions

The Aga Khan University (AKU) hosted the closing ceremony of the 2024 edition of the AKU President’s Challenge for Climate Solutions, marking the culmination of a months-long competition that brought together student innovators from Pakistan, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania in a bid to tackle one of the world’s most pressing environmental issues: water. Launched in 2022, the President’s Challenge for Climate Solutions was born from AKU’s conviction that students must not be bystanders in the fight against climate change. This year’s theme – Every Drop Counts – inspired students to develop practical, scalable ideas that address both water scarcity and excess, as climate change increasingly disrupts global water systems. “People talk about the critical natural resources that the clean energy transition will require,” said Dr Sulaiman Shahabuddin, AKU President and Vice Chancellor. “But the most valuable and most urgently needed resource by far is human creativity – the kind of creativity we are celebrating today. If our award winners are any indication of what is to come, the Global South will enjoy its fair share of future-defining innovation.”