The Earthshot Prize 2022

Premieres Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV + Tuesday, Dec. 20 at 4 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Watch now with the PBS Video app

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.

Inspired by the extraordinary achievements of President John F. Kennedy’s Moonshot, The Earthshot Prize is centered on repairing our planet through five Earthshots:

• Protect and Restore Nature
• Clean Our Air
• Revive Our Oceans
• Build A Waste-Free World
• Fix Our Climate

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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

Courtesy of The Earth Shot Prize; Pip Cowley

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Clean our Air Winner Mukuru Clean Stoves, Kenya

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Clean our Air Winner Mukuru Clean Stoves, Kenya

Agogoh / Courtesy of The Earth Shot Prize

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Shailene Woodley presents at The Earthshot Prize 2022

Courtesy of The Earth Shot Prize; Kirsty O'Connor

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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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Prince William

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.

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.

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"The Earthshot Prize 2022" is now available on demand with the PBS Video App, you can watch your favorite and local station shows. Download it for free on your favorite device. The app allows you to catch up on recent episodes and discover award-winning shows.

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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