The Earthshot prize 2025 makes its call for entries
Following a record-breaking year for nominations, and a historic first awards ceremony on the African continent, The Earthshot Prize (TEP) is officially open for entries for its 2025 cohort and MultiChoice is proud to once again be an official Africa nominator for TEP.
TEP seeks innovative solutions across five critical Earthshots: Protect and Restore Nature; Clean Our Air; Revive Our Oceans; Build a Waste-Free World; and Fix Our Climate.
This year’s cycle saw an unprecedented surge in nominations, with over 2,000 entries received from 139 countries, demonstrating a growing global momentum for environmental innovation.
The star-studded awards ceremony, held in Cape Town, South Africa was broadcast live to millions of people across the continent by MultiChoice, the official African broadcast partner of TEP.
The ceremony celebrated several African-led initiatives, including Kenya’s Keep IT Cool, which won the Build a Waste-Free World Earthshot. Keep IT Cool is revolutionising food preservation for small-scale farmers and fishers with its sustainable refrigeration systems.
Ghana’s Green Africa Youth Organisation (GAYO) won the Clean Our Air Earthshot, for its efforts in tackling air pollution with its innovative “Zero Waste Model”.
These winners, along with all other TEP recipients, exemplify the power of local solutions to address global challenges and contribute to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Each winner receives £1 million in prize money to scale their impactful solutions.
TEP invites individuals, communities, businesses, and organisations across Africa and beyond to submit their groundbreaking ideas and technologies that can accelerate the transition to a sustainable future.
The Prize seeks solutions that are impactful (Demonstrating tangible positive effects on the environment), inspiring (Motivating others to act and join the global movement for change), and inclusive (Benefitting communities and promoting equitable access to resources). The deadline for entries is December 4, 2024.
The Earthshot Prize wasounded by Prince William and The Royal Foundation in 2020, as a global environmental prize designed to discover, accelerate, and scale groundbreaking solutions to repair and regenerate the planet. It aims to encourage and scale innovative solutions that can help put the world on a trajectory towards a stable climate where communities, oceans, and biodiversity thrive in harmony by 2030.
