Английская Википедия:Earthshot Prize

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox award The Earthshot Prize is a global environmental award that is rewarded to five winners each year for their contributions towards environmentalism. It was first awarded in 2021 and is planned to run annually until 2030. Each winner receives a grant of £1 million to continue their environmental work. The five categories were inspired by the UN Sustainable Development Goals; they are 'restoration and protection of nature', 'air cleanliness', 'ocean revival', 'waste-free living', and 'climate action'.

The Prize was launched in 2020 by Prince William and David Attenborough. The winners are selected by the Earthshot Prize Council, which includes Prince William and Attenborough.

Background and launch

On 31 December 2019, Prince William announced the Earthshot Prize, after two years of development, to be given to five individuals or organisations who provided impactful and sustainable solutions for the planet's environmental problems between 2021 and 2030. William stated that he felt responsibility to establish the prize as Earth was at a "tipping point" and cited the work of his grandfather Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, father King Charles III, and the broadcaster David Attenborough as inspiring influences. The prize's name is inspired by former US President John F. Kennedy's Moonshot.

William and Attenborough formally launched the project in October 2020, with a prize budget of £50 million over the next decade. To commemorate the launch, William gave a Ted Talk discussing climate change and encouraged world leaders to take action. Prince William and Attenborough both appeared in the ITV documentary A Planet For Us All (2020), which detailed the importance of environmental work and discussed the new prize.

In July 2022, it was announced that after being a part of The Royal Foundation for two years, the Earthshot Prize had become an independent charity. Christiana Figueres, David Fein, Tokunboh Ishamael, M. Sanjayan, Jason Knauf, Zoë Ware, and Jean-Christophe Gray were appointed to the board of trustees. Jacinda Ardern later joined the board.

Funding

The project is funded by donations from philanthropists and charitable organisations, including: Aga Khan Development Network, Bloomberg Philanthropies, DP World in partnership with Dubai Expo 2020, the Jack Ma Foundation, Marc and Lynne Benioff, the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, the World Wide Fund for Nature, the Green Belt Movement, Greenpeace, Conservation International, and the Bezos Earth Fund. Hannah Jones is the programme's CEO.

In an interview about the Earthshot Prize broadcast on 14 October 2021, William told the BBC's Newscast about the rise in "climate anxiety" among younger generations, and suggested that rich entrepreneurs should be "trying to repair this planet, not trying to find the next place to go and live".

Categories and nomination process

A £1 million prize will be awarded annually between 2021 and 2030 to a winner in each of the following five categories:

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

In September 2023, ahead of the second Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit in New York City, animal rights and climate activist, Genesis Butler, partnered with Generation Vegan to request the Prince of Wales to add an "Advance a Plant-Based Food System" category, matching the sum that the other five category winners receive.

Each area is supported by the UN Sustainable Development Goals and scientifically agreed international measures. Submissions are open to any individual, team, organisation, or government with workable solutions. The Earthshot Prize Council is responsible for determining a winner from each category every year. There is a five-stage process to select a winner for each Earthshot, designed alongside the Centre for Public Impact. Nominations are screened with an independent assessment process run by Deloitte. A panel of experts then make recommendations to the Prize Council, who select the final winners, narrowed from fifteen finalists. Shortlisted finalists will also receive resources for "tailored support" and connections with organisations to expand their work.

Earthshot Prize Council

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Prince William and his spouse, Catherine, at the inaugural Earthshot Prize ceremony in October 2021 in London

The Earthshot Prize Council comprises global ambassadors from a wide range of varying sectors dedicated towards positive action in the environmental space. The thirteen members are Prince William, Queen Rania of Jordan, Cate Blanchett, David Attenborough, Ernest Gibson, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Indra Nooyi, Jack Ma, Luisa Neubauer, Naoko Yamazaki, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Stella McCartney, and Yao Ming who select the winners in a judging session led by Christiana Figueres. Former members were Dani Alves and Shakira. To commemorate Earth Day 2021, the Council published an open letter in The Times, urging the public and communities to help with accelerating the fight against climate change. In May 2021, Luisa Neubauer and Ernest Gibson were announced as new members of the council. In September 2021, Michael Bloomberg was named as a global adviser to the winners of the prize.

A book entitled Earthshot: How To Save Our Planet was written to accompany the prizes, written by Colin Butfield and Jonnie Hughes, with contributions from several of the judges. Butfield and Hughes also produced an accompanying five-part BBC One TV series about the project. The book was published in the UK, Europe and across the Commonwealth on 30 September 2021, and in the US on 5 October. The five-part series, titled The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet, was broadcast by BBC One in the first two weeks of October and available for streaming on BBC iPlayer and Discovery+. The miniseries consisted of documentary style episodes, each based on the five UN Sustainable Development Goals, and were presented by Prince William and David Attenborough.

Earthshot Prize Global Alliance

In September 2021, it was announced that the Earthshot Prize Global Alliance—consisting of companies such as Arup, Bloomberg L.P., Deloitte, Herbert Smith Freehills, Hitachi, the INGKA Group, Microsoft, MultiChoice, Natura & Co, Safaricom, Salesforce, Unilever, Vodacom, and Walmart—will help "scale up" ideas submitted by the inaugural 15 finalists.

A nine-month Fellowship Programme was launched in 2022 to help the finalists develop more ideas by forming partnerships with various businesses and organisations that are part of the Earthshot Prize Global Alliance. Since 2022, the Earthshot has co-hosted an annual innovation summit together with Bloomberg Philanthropies.

In May 2023, the Earthshot Prize announced a two-year partnership with YouTube, which would include "co-branded campaigns, events and creator collaborations". In July 2023, Prince William joined with YouTube channel Sorted Food to serve veggie burgers from a food truck in London. The burgers were made and served with items sourced from the 2022 winners.

2021 Award winners and nominees

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Vidyut Mohan, Clean our Air Prize winner (Takachar) and Vinisha Umashankar, finalist (solar ironing cart), attending the Earthshot Prize ceremony

Nominations for the inaugural prize ceremony opened on 1 November 2020, with over 100 nominating partners eligible to submit. The location of the ceremony will alternate each year. The 2021 Earthshot Prize ceremony took place on 17 October 2021 at Alexandra Palace, and was broadcast on Discovery+ and BBC One. Clara Amfo and Dermot O'Leary hosted the event while the awards were presented by the Duchess of Cambridge, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, David Oyelowo and Mohamed Salah. Ed Sheeran, Coldplay, KSI and Yemi Alade, and Shawn Mendes performed at the event. 60 cyclists pedalling on bikes provided the power for music performances. None of the celebrities flew to London and the stage was built using non-plastic material. All of the guests were advised to choose environmentally appropriate outfits.

15 finalists were announced on 17 September 2021, with the winners being announced on 17 October 2021.

Protect and Restore Nature
Winner: The Republic of Costa Rica, for "a scheme paying local citizens to restore natural ecosystems that has led to a revival of the rainforest."
Pole Pole Foundation (Congo), for "a community-led model of conservation that protects gorillas and local livelihoods."
Restor, Switzerland for "an online platform connecting and empowering local conservation projects."

Clean our Air
Winner: Takachar, for a "technology to create profitable products from agricultural waste and put a stop to the burning of crops."
The Blue Map App (China), for a "public environmental database enabling citizens to hold polluters to account."
Vinisha Umashankar (India), for "design[ing] a solar-powered ironing cart with the potential to improve air quality across India."

Revive our Oceans
Winner: Coral Vita (Bahamas), for a "coral farming project designed to restore the world's dying coral reefs."
Living Seawalls (Australia), for "innovative tiles attached to sea walls creating habitats for marine life to attach to."
Pristine Seas (Enric Sala, National Geographic Society, United States), for a "global conservation programme protecting 6.5 million square km of the world's ocean."

Build a Waste-Free World
Winner: The City of Milan Food Waste Hubs (Italy), for a "city-wide initiative that has dramatically cut waste while tackling hunger."
Sanergy, Kenya, for "a sanitation solution that converts human waste into safe products for local farmers."
WOTA BOX (Japan), for "a tiny water treatment plant that turns 98% of wastewater into clean water."

Fix our Climate
Winner: AEM Electrolyser (Thailand/Germany/Italy), for "an ingenious clean hydrogen fuel technology designed to transform how homes and buildings are powered." (Anion exchange membrane electrolysis)
Reeddi Capsules (Nigeria), for "solar-powered energy capsules making electricity affordable and accessible in energy-poor communities."
SOLbazaar (Bangladesh), for "the world's first peer-to-peer energy exchange network in a country on the front-line of climate change."

2022 Award winners and nominees

The 2022 awards ceremony took place at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston, United States, on 2 December, and was broadcast in the UK on BBC One and in the US on PBS. Nominations for the second prize ceremony opened on 6 January 2022, with 300 nominating partners eligible to submit.

15 finalists were announced on 4 November 2022, and the winners were revealed on 2 December. They took part in the event remotely. Sir David Attenborough narrated the opening of the event and Cate Blanchett voiced a lookback at the award's inaugural winners. Clara Amfo and Daniel Dae Kim hosted the event while the awards were presented by the Princess of Wales, David Beckham, Rami Malek, Catherine O'Hara, and Shailene Woodley. Billie Eilish and Finneas, Annie Lennox, Ellie Goulding, and Chloe x Halle performed at the event.

Protect and Restore Nature
Winner: Kheyti (India): a start-up that uses the "Greenhouse-in-a-Box" technique to protect small farms from the effects of climate change
Hutan (Malaysia): a research organisation aimed at creating wildlife corridors to restore natural areas and protect orangutans and other species
Desert Agricultural Transformation (China): a technique known as "desert soilization" used by Yi Zhijian and his team to transform barren desert into fertile land

Clean our Air
Winner: Mukuru Clean Stoves (Kenya): founded by Charlot Magayi, it provides cleaner burning stoves that use processed biomass to reduce indoor pollution
Ampd Enertainer (Hong Kong, China): an all-electric battery energy storage system designed by Ampd Energy to power construction sites, eliminating the need for fossil fuels
Roam (Kenya): a project aimed at making electric vehicles available in East Africa

Revive our Oceans
Winner: Indigenous Women of the Great Barrier Reef (Australia): a network of indigenous women rangers who use their knowledge and digital technologies to preserve the nature
Great Bubble Barrier (Netherlands): a team of ocean scientists, whose technique utilizes "air pumped through a perforated tube to create a curtain of bubbles", which ensures plastic ends up on the surface and goes into a waste collection system
SeaForester (Portugal): the team creates "green gravel", small stones that are seeded with seaweed spores, which are essential for capturing underwater Шаблон:CO2

Build a Waste-Free World
Winner: Notpla (United Kingdom): the start-up produces packaging using seaweed and plants as an alternative to plastic
The City of Amsterdam (Netherlands): nominated for their efforts to create a circular economy
Fleather (India): a leather made of floral waste by Phool, an Indian company

Fix our Climate
Winner: 44.01 (Oman): eliminates Шаблон:CO2 by mineralising it in peridotite
LanzaTech (United States): the company uses gas fermentation technology to reduce pollution
Low Carbon Materials (United Kingdom): the company aims at making zero carbon concrete blocks using OSTO, a carbon-negative alternative to traditional aggregate

2023 Award winners and nominees

The second Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit took place in New York City on 19 September 2023 where the fifteen finalists of the 2023 Earthshot Prize were unveiled. The 2023 awards ceremony took place at the Mediacorp Theatre in Singapore on 7 November. The event was a part of the first-ever Earthshot Week, which began on 6 November and saw global leaders, businesses and investors gathered to meet with the Earthshot Prize winners and finalists. In August, celebrities including Olivia Colman, Dame Emma Thompson, and Chris Packham signed a letter urging Prince William to add a vegan category, warning that without a transition to plant-based diets the planet cannot be preserved. Hannah Waddingham and Sterling K. Brown hosted the awards ceremony while pop stars Bastille, OneRepublic and Bebe Rexha gave musical performances. Actress Cate Blanchett presented one of the awards while actress Lana Condor, wildlife conservationist Robert Irwin, actor Nomzamo Mbatha, and actor Donnie Yen took turns introducing the winners of the other categories.

15 finalists were announced on 19 September 2023.

Protect and Restore Nature
Winner: Accion Andina (Peru): a project working across South America to protect native forest ecosystems across the Andes
Freetown the Tree Town (Sierra Leone): an initiative by the Freetown City Council to increase and preserve tree population
Belterra (Brazil): a company that works in partnership with farmers to regenerate degraded lands via new agricultural practices

Clean our Air
Winner: GRST (Hong Kong, China): a start-up that has developed a new process for making and recycling lithium-ion batteries
Polish Smog Alert (Poland): a campaigning group working to encourage policy change and improve the air quality across Poland
Enso (United Kingdom): a company that has created sustainable tires for electric vehicles with hopes of reducing tire and air pollution

Revive our Oceans
Winner: WildAid Marine Program (global): a non-profit that allows data sharing to conserve the oceans
Abalobi (South Africa): an organization that guides small fishing communities towards sustainability by providing relevant data
Coastal 500 (global): an international network involving mayors and local leaders aimed at improving and protecting ocean habitats

Build a Waste-Free World
Winner: S4S Technologies (India): a start-up that uses its solar powered dehydration equipment to reduce food waste and help farmers process excess crops into products with a longer shelf lives
Circ Inc. (United States): a company that has developed a way of recycling polycotton back to its raw materials so that it can be reused and reduce textile waste
Colorifix (United Kingdom): a company that creates sustainable pigments and dyes from natural resources to reduce water and chemical waste in the fashion industry

Fix our Climate
Winner: Boomitra (global): a company that tries to reduce emissions by creating a soil carbon marketplace to restore lands
Sea Forest (Australia): a company that has created a seaweed-based livestock feed which would reduce methane emissions from ruminant animals"
Aquacycl (United States): a company that uses microbial technology to make treating industrial wastewater more cost-effective and accessible, more efficient and less polluting

2024 Award

The 2024 awards ceremony will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, in November.

See also

• List of environmental awards

External links

• Шаблон:Official website