First ever Earthshot winners announced
by Daria Blackwell 19 Oct 2021 16:05 UTC
First ever Earthshot winners announced © Earthshot
The new Earthshot environmental prize initiated by Prince William has been awarded to five innovators including Coral Vita, who grow coral on land to return to the sea.
The Earthshot Prize is the most ambitious and prestigious of its kind - designed to incentivise change and help to repair our planet. Inspired by President John F Kennedy's Moonshot, which energized innovation in the 1960s, Earthshot focuses on five key aspects of earth's recovery needs: Nature, Air, Ocean, Waste, and Climate.
Five 1million £ prizes will be awarded each year for the next ten years, providing at least 50 solutions to the world's greatest environmental problems by 2030. It's not just a reward but rather an accelerator to help scale and implement the most innovative solutions.
The first five winners named were respectively:
Read more about each of the winners and finalists, the success they've achieved, and their goals for the endowment by following the links above.
earthshotprize.org
This article has been provided by the courtesy of the Ocean Cruising Club.