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The Earthshot Prize, a global environmental prize founded by Prince William and The Royal Foundation in 2020, aims to spotlight, support and scale groundbreaking solutions to our world’s most pressing environmental challenges.
Prince William, Prince of Wales, addresses the audience at the 2022 Earthshot Prize at MGM Music Hall in Boston.
Inspired by the extraordinary achievements of President John F. Kennedy’s Moonshot, The Earthshot Prize is centered on repairing our planet through five Earthshots:
Almost everything we do has a carbon footprint, and that carbon is destabilizing our planet. The three Protect and Restore Nature finalists have developed incredible solutions that will help the natural world recover. Shots courtesy of Greenpeace.
The earth's air is polluted. Industrialization and the burning of fossil fuels not only contribute to the climate crisis but can directly harm life that breathes. The three Clean Our Air finalists have developed solutions to help our atmosphere recover.
Warming temperatures, pollution and harmful fishing practices are having a devastating impact on our oceans, but the three Revive our Oceans finalists for The Earthshot Prize 2022 have developed solutions so that our oceans can thrive. Shots courtesy of Greenpeace.
Nearly everything we do creates waste, but what if we could use that waste to create new products and materials where everything is reborn, reused and recycled? The three Build a Waste-Free World finalists are doing just that.
Almost everything we do has a carbon footprint, and that carbon is destabilizing our planet. The three Fix Our Climate finalists for The Earthshot Prize 2022 have developed groundbreaking solutions to repair the damage created by carbon.
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Protect and Restore Nature Winner Kheyti, India, with his Earthshot Prize medal
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Protect and Restore Nature Winner Kheyti, India (second from left)
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The Princess of Wales awards the Clean our Air Winner
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Clean our Air Winner Mukuru Clean Stoves, Kenya
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Clean our Air Winner Mukuru Clean Stoves, Kenya
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Shailene Woodley presents at The Earthshot Prize 2022
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Revive our Oceans Winner The Indigenous Women of The Great Barrier Reef
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Revive our Oceans Winner The Indigenous Women of The Great Barrier Reef
Jeremy Tomlinson / Courtesy of The Earth Shot Prize
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Build a Waste-free World Winner Notpla, United Kingdom
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Build a Waste-free World Winners Notpla co-founders Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez and Pierre Paslier, United Kingdom
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Build a Waste-free World Winner Notpla, United Kingdom
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Build a Waste-free World Winner Notpla, United Kingdom
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Held in the United States for the first time, the second annual Earthshot Prize will be hosted in Boston featuring exclusive performances by Annie Lennox, Billie Eilish, and Ellie Goulding. With star-studded international celebrities, this year's awards line-up of presenters includes Catherine O’Hara, Sir David Attenborough, Rami Malek, and Shailene Woodley.
Billie Eilish and FINNEAS perform "my future" for the 2022 Earthshot Prize at MGM Music Hall in Boston.
The prestigious ceremony will celebrate a cohort of fifteen incredible global finalists and award five winners, each with £1 million in prize money, and provide them with access to a global support network to scale their work.
Chloe and Halle Bailey perform "Feeling Good," popularized by Nina Simone, live at the 2022 Earthshot Prize at MGM Music Hall in Boston.
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Discover what inspires our 2022 Finalists and learn more about their innovative work in our five-part YouTube Series, ‘Solutions to Repair Our Planet’.
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