Five Winners of Prince William’s Earthshot Prize Unveiled at Impactful Awards Ceremony

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Category: Earth, Air, Space Science

Published on Sunday, 04 December 2022 14:42

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Founded by Prince William and The Royal Foundation in 2020, The Earthshot Prize is a global environmental prize to discover, accelerate and scale ground-breaking eco-solutions to repair and regenerate the planet. Inspired by President John F. Kennedy's Moonshot, which united millions of people around the goal of reaching the moon, The Earthshot Prize aims to catalyze an Earthshot challenge to urgently encourage and scale innovative solutions that can help put the world firmly on a trajectory towards a stable climate, where communities, oceans and biodiversity thrive in harmony by 2030. The five challenges are: Protect and Restore Nature; Clean our Air; Revive our Oceans; Build a Waste-free World; and Fix our Climate.

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The Prize aims to turn the current pessimism surrounding environmental issues into optimism but championing inspiring leadership and helping to scale incredible cutting-edge solutions. It will discover 50 winners over 10 years with the power to repair the planet. More than a prize, The Earthshot Prize works in partnership with a Global Alliance of Partners to support the scaling of the solutions discovered and selected each year.

The Global Alliance Founding Partners are a group of leading global organizations and philanthropists which act as strategic funding partners to the Prize, including Aga Khan Development Network, Bezos Earth Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Breakthrough Energy Foundation, Coleman Family Ventures, DP World in partnership with Dubai EXPO 2020, Eleven Eleven Foundation, Holch Povlsen Foundation, Jack Ma Foundation, Legado Para A Juventude, Marc and Lynne Benioff, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and Rob & Melani Walton Foundation.

Global Alliance Partners are non-profit environment and sustainable development organizations that bring expertise, global reach and serve as nominating organizations each year. For full list see website: Global Alliance - Earthshot Prize

Global Alliance Members are some of the world's largest and most influential companies and brands who will support The Earthshot Prize, implement ambitious changes within their businesses and accelerate the advancement of the solutions of Prize Finalists and Winners. They are: Arup, Bloomberg L.P., Deloitte, Herbert Smith Freehills, Hitachi, Ingka Group (IKEA), Microsoft, The Multichoice Group, Natura &Co, Safaricom, Salesforce, Unilever, Vodacom Group, Walmart.

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New for 2022, The Earthshot Prize is launching its Fellowship Programme, in partnership with IDEO. The Fellowship is a unique accelerator designed to help Finalists grow their solutions by unlocking new routes to market, finance, and major partnerships. Leading global design company IDEO crafted the Fellowship to ensure all fifteen Finalists are aided to maximize their impact through ambitious collaborations with The Earthshot Prize Global Alliance of 45 businesses, NGOs, and philanthropists.

Process for Allocating Prize Funding

During the nomination and Finalist selection process, each Nominee included an outline of what winning The Earthshot Prize would enable for their solution in terms of scaling the reach and impact of their work. Each of the 15 Finalists were then invited onto our Fellowship programme where these ambitions were discussed in detail with The Earthshot Prize team as part of planning tailored support for each Finalist over the course of the coming year.

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Following the announcement of the Prize Winners, The Earthshot Prize team will work with the Winners to develop bespoke agreements that set out the grant that the Foundation is awarding, the activity it can be used to support and the reporting requirements and demonstrable impact we expect over the grant period. Each grant will be expected to show impact towards the relevant Earthshot for which the Prize has been awarded.

Grant awards will be made in line with UK Charity Law and will require ongoing monitoring, evaluation and reporting to ensure being used as expected. The Board of The Earthshot Prize will have final approval and sign off over grant agreements.

The Earthshot Prize Council

The Prize is backed by The Earthshot Prize Council, a truly global team of influential individuals from a wide range of different sectors, all of whom are committed to championing positive action in the environmental space. Every year from 2021 until 2030, The Earthshot Prize Council will award The Earthshot Prize to five Winners, one per Earthshot.

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They are:

His Royal Highness Prince William;

Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah (Jordan);

Cate Blanchett – actor, producer, and humanitarian (Australia);

Christiana Figueres – co-founder of Global Optimism and former UN Climate Chief responsible for delivery of the landmark Paris Agreement on Climate Change (Costa Rica);

Dani Alves – professional footballer (Brazil);

Sir David Attenborough – broadcaster and natural historian (UK);

Ernest Gibson – community activist (Fiji);

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim – environmental activist (Chad);

Indra Nooyi – business executive and former Chairman & CEO of PepsiCo (US & India);

Jack Ma – philanthropist, entrepreneur and UNSDG Advocate (China);

Luisa Neubauer – climate justice activist (Germany);

Naoko Yamazaki – former astronaut onboard the International Space Station (Japan);

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala – Director-General World Trade Organization (Nigeria);

Shakira Mebarak – singer and philanthropist (Colombia);

Yao Ming - Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer and environmentalist (China).

The Earthshot Expert Advisory Panel

A shortlist of nominations is assessed by an Expert Advisory Panel, who make recommendations on the Prize Winners to the Prize Council. The Expert Advisory Panel is a crucial stage in the selection process that adds a further layer of independence and rigor, bringing together expertise from science, conservation, innovation, investment, economics, politics, communications, and activism. This extensive and varied experience allows the panel to make an informed and holistic assessment on the diverse set of Finalists and advise on which nominations will have the greatest impact and should, therefore, be awarded The Earthshot Prize.

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The Expert Advisory Panel for 2022 is made up of 13 experts from a range of sectors: Annette Lendal, Antha Williams, Bezawit Eshetu, Bruno Pozzi, Daniela V Fernandez, David Booth, Li Lin, Ma Jun, Malaika Vaz, Melati Wijsen, Michael Brauer, Sergio De Carvalho, Tom Rivett-Carnac.