Five winners of Prince William’s Earthshot environmental prize revealed
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Costa Rica and Milan are among the five winners of the Earthshot Prize , one of the most prestigious environmental awards created by Britain’s Prince William.
The Earthshot Prize revealed the first-ever five Prize Winners of the environment awards at a ceremony held at London’s Alexandra Palace on Monday (17 October). The winners were selected from over 750 nominations from around the world.
Each of these five winners will receive £1 million prize money and a global network of professional and technical support to scale their remarkable environmental solutions to repair our planet and accelerate their impact.
The five Winners include cutting-edge technologists, innovators, an entire country, and a pioneering city, according to release issued by Earthshot.
“The five Winners were selected by the Earthshot Prize Council and were chosen for their ground-breaking solutions to the greatest environmental challenges facing the planet and their ability to scale their impact globally in response to the urgent challenges we face , ” the organization said.
The winners were connected to the awards ceremony by global broadcast, where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were joined by Sir David Attenborough, Christiana Figueres, Dani Alves and a host of stars and performers including Ed Sheeran and Yemi Alade.
Similarly , the 15 Finalists will receive tailored support from The Earthshot Prize Global Alliance, an unrivalled network of philanthropies, NGOs, and private sector businesses around the world who will help scale their solutions.
The awards ceremony concluded by revealing the Earthshot Prize will travel to the United States of America in 2022. Nominations for the 2022 Prize will open in January 2022.
Five, one million-pound 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 .
For more info : earthshotprize.org
17 Oct. 2021
